Children's Qualified Social Work Talent Pool - SW, SSW, TM

QUALIFIED SOCIAL WORKERS, SENIOR SOCIAL WORKERS AND TEAM MANAGERS

SEND CV TO: CHILDRENSSOCIALWORKERRECRUITMENT@NEWHAM.GOV.UK 

QUALIFIED CHILDREN’S SOCIAL WORK TALENT POOL

If you are a qualified social worker, senior social worker, or social work manager who is considering practising with us at Newham then we’d love to hear from you. 

Please declare interest by email to be added to our talent pool and we will do our best to update you when suitable vacancies become available. 

We’re interested in speaking to qualified social work staff at all levels:

• Social Workers                               (£43,364 - £54,083)
• Senior Social Workers                   (£54,083 - £57,116)
• Assistant Team Managers            (£56,903 - £59,129)
• Team Managers                             (£59,129 - £62,201)
• Note for NQSWs – our ASYE programme will reopen to applications in early 2025

JOIN US AND HELP BUILD A FAIRER NEWHAM

WHY WORK WITH US?

We’re a vibrant, dynamic, culturally rich London Borough with a young population and limitless potential. We’re a challenging yet rewarding place for social work practice to flourish and we are steadfastly committed to our workforce being representative of the families that we work with. We are taking coordinated, meaningful and focused action to develop an inclusive culture because we believe this is at the heart of enabling diversity in all respects, including diversity of thought. We are taking positive actions to challenge all forms of discrimination and injustice to help make Newham a fairer and more equitable place for children and families to live, learn and thrive. 

We’ve been working hard to make Newham a great place to practise social work.

• A commitment to addressing disproportionality wherever we find it.
• We’re a GOOD local authority focused on reaching excellence.
• We offer genuinely flexible/hybrid working as long as children and families are supported.
• Stability: 100% of our Senior Managers and 71% of Team Managers are permanent.
• Our firmly established practice model, Circles of Support, was recently nominated for the prestigious MJ Award for Innovation in Children’s Services and allows systemic, restorative practice to flourish.
• Career progression is possible with Newham; we promoted 30 internal colleagues in 2023 and have already promoted 37 colleagues to date in 2024.
• Social Care Academy – 50+ social workers have studied for systemic higher education with us since 2020. Our Academy offer received significant praise from Ofsted.
• A competitive salary package with a market supplement that rivals capped agency pay.
• Oyster card/parking permit for business use.
• Wellbeing service, leisure and discount benefits, local authority pension scheme.

HOW THE TALENT POOL WORKS – HOW TO DECLARE INTEREST

1. Send your CV and contact details by email to childrenssocialworkerrecruitment@newham.gov.uk.

2. Make sure your email informs us of your desired teams/services and your career level.

3. We will let you know if/when we have a vacancy that matches your interest.

4. You apply for the relevant job!

Please make sure you follow point number 2 and specify your career level and the teams/services you have interest in – this is really important so we can contact you about relevant vacancies. We will only contact you about vacancies as specified – no junk mail.

Our current teams and services are below:

• Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH)
• Assessment and Intervention Service
• Children in Care Service
• Leaving Care Service
• Fostering Service (SGO and Supervising SWs)
• DCYPS (Children with Disabilities SW Service)

We really look forward to hearing from you!

Any questions? Please get in touch by email: childrenssocialworkerrecruitment@newham.gov.uk.

By submitting your details to our recruitment inbox email address you are giving us permission to contact you about relevant social work vacancies with Newham Children’s Services. We will not contact you for any other purpose.

FIND OUT MORE

Read our Ofsted reports

Newham Council website

London Social Work for Children – Newham

Newham makes “Care Experienced” a protected characteristic

Interview with our DCS

London Social Work for Children – DCYPS

Additional Information

We are committed to creating an inclusive, anti-racist environment for all. When you apply for a job at Newham, your application is considered on its merits regardless of your age, disability, ethnicity, faith, gender identity or sexual orientation. If you share our vision and values, and you bring the experience and skills we need, that’s all that matters to us.

The London Borough of Newham has important responsibilities for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. If you are appointed to a job that involves working with these groups, you may be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

The personal information we have collected from you will be shared with Cifas who will use it to prevent fraud, other unlawful or dishonest conduct, malpractice, and other seriously improper conduct. If any of these are detected you could be refused certain services or employment. Your personal information will also be used to verify your identity. Further details of how your information will be used by us and Cifas, and your data protection rights, can be found by https://www.cifas.org.uk/fpn.