The Outstanding Enfield Looked After Children team are recruiting!
Enfield Looked After Children team are seeking confident, imaginative, and dynamic social workers to make a difference in vulnerable children’s lives. We are looking for skilled social workers who are determined to achieve the best for looked after children; to achieve their permanency and help them to meet their full potential.
Based in the heart of Enfield Town, situated in a modern newly designed client-facing service hub, the new office has bespoke areas for service users and supports our smart working policy. Our brand new high-tech multiagency office has good transport links into Central London and is easily accessible to the M25, A10, and A406.
As a social worker in a Looked After Children's Team, your aim and role will be to support children living with relatives, family friends, foster families, or prospective adopters, or older children living in children's homes. You will be responsible for ensuring their safety and supporting them towards independence while fulfilling the council’s obligations as a corporate parent. You will be involved in permanency planning for children through Care Proceedings and beyond, ensuring their holistic needs are met in their long-term placement.
You will be required to prepare reports and attend Court to represent the Local Authority and should be experienced in Court work. Through regular visits, assessments, and by reviewing their Care Plan, you will nurture and develop meaningful relationships with children; understand and interpret their wishes, complete high-quality direct work and life story work with children.
You will be supported in this challenging role with regular reflective individual and group supervision. The role includes working alongside other professionals to ensure that a child or young person receives appropriate care, education, and health services, by collaborating with social workers and partnership organizations such as Foster carers, Health Services, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), Education, The Regional Adoption Agency, and Independent Reviewing officers.
You will need to hold a qualification in social work, have a clear criminal history, and be registered with Social Work England. If you’re looking for interesting opportunities to further your career, or want to contribute to integrated multidisciplinary working for the wellbeing of children, and if you are a motivated and enthusiastic practitioner, then we would like to hear from you.
Contact Details:
If you would like to know more about the role, please contact Julia Henning on 0208 148 4936 or Sephra Dorsette-Peters at 0202 132 2698 for an informal discussion.
If you have any difficulties accessing this information, please contact Iona Mackinnon at iona.mackinnon@enfield.gov.uk or on 0204 526 5336.
Enfield’s Social Care Centre of Excellence confirms our commitment to creating and maintaining an environment for new and existing staff to deliver high-quality social work to our most vulnerable children and young people. For more information please visit
here .
“This authority is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment.”
We reserve the right to close this vacancy once a sufficient number of applications have been received. Therefore, we advise that you complete and submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
Why it's great to work for Enfield Council:
An excellent pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
Up to 32 days annual leave depending on grade and length of service.
A blend of remote and office-based working for most roles.
Interest-free season ticket loan repayable over three or ten months.
Career development and learning experiences from a range of training courses and learning methods.
Employee Assistance Programme to provide advice and counselling services.
Health and leisure discounts and tax-free bikes for work.
1 month's paid sabbatical for registered Social Workers working in Children's Social Care.
We are passionate about our people and how we deliver services to our community in Enfield. That’s why we encourage a culture that puts our customers at the heart of everything we do - by empowering our people to work together to find solutions, be open, honest and respectful, take responsibility, and listen and learn. If you value these behaviours too, we’d love to hear from you.
If you have previously applied for this role within the past 6 months, unfortunately, a second application will not be considered.
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Enfield Looked After Children team are seeking confident, imaginative, and dynamic social workers to make a difference in vulnerable children’s lives. We are looking for skilled social workers who are determined to achieve the best for looked after children; to achieve their permanency and help them to meet their full potential.
Based in the heart of Enfield Town, situated in a modern newly designed client-facing service hub, the new office has bespoke areas for service users and supports our smart working policy. Our brand new high-tech multiagency office has good transport links into Central London and is easily accessible to the M25, A10, and A406.
As a social worker in a Looked After Children's Team, your aim and role will be to support children living with relatives, family friends, foster families, or prospective adopters, or older children living in children's homes. You will be responsible for ensuring their safety and supporting them towards independence while fulfilling the council’s obligations as a corporate parent. You will be involved in permanency planning for children through Care Proceedings and beyond, ensuring their holistic needs are met in their long-term placement.
You will be required to prepare reports and attend Court to represent the Local Authority and should be experienced in Court work. Through regular visits, assessments, and by reviewing their Care Plan, you will nurture and develop meaningful relationships with children; understand and interpret their wishes, complete high-quality direct work and life story work with children.
You will be supported in this challenging role with regular reflective individual and group supervision. The role includes working alongside other professionals to ensure that a child or young person receives appropriate care, education, and health services, by collaborating with social workers and partnership organizations such as Foster carers, Health Services, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), Education, The Regional Adoption Agency, and Independent Reviewing officers.
You will need to hold a qualification in social work, have a clear criminal history, and be registered with Social Work England. If you’re looking for interesting opportunities to further your career, or want to contribute to integrated multidisciplinary working for the wellbeing of children, and if you are a motivated and enthusiastic practitioner, then we would like to hear from you.
Contact Details:
If you would like to know more about the role, please contact Julia Henning on 0208 148 4936 or Sephra Dorsette-Peters at 0202 132 2698 for an informal discussion.
If you have any difficulties accessing this information, please contact Iona Mackinnon at iona.mackinnon@enfield.gov.uk or on 0204 526 5336.
Enfield’s Social Care Centre of Excellence confirms our commitment to creating and maintaining an environment for new and existing staff to deliver high-quality social work to our most vulnerable children and young people. For more information please visit
here .
“This authority is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment.”
We reserve the right to close this vacancy once a sufficient number of applications have been received. Therefore, we advise that you complete and submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
Why it's great to work for Enfield Council:
An excellent pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
Up to 32 days annual leave depending on grade and length of service.
A blend of remote and office-based working for most roles.
Interest-free season ticket loan repayable over three or ten months.
Career development and learning experiences from a range of training courses and learning methods.
Employee Assistance Programme to provide advice and counselling services.
Health and leisure discounts and tax-free bikes for work.
1 month's paid sabbatical for registered Social Workers working in Children's Social Care.
We are passionate about our people and how we deliver services to our community in Enfield. That’s why we encourage a culture that puts our customers at the heart of everything we do - by empowering our people to work together to find solutions, be open, honest and respectful, take responsibility, and listen and learn. If you value these behaviours too, we’d love to hear from you.
If you have previously applied for this role within the past 6 months, unfortunately, a second application will not be considered.
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