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Senior Social Work Practitioner- North Community Team

Location: North Shropshire (Market Drayton & Oswestry)
Pay Rate: 31.97 per hour Umbrella
Hours: 37 Hours per Week
Driver Required: Essential
Working Pattern: Hybrid (3 days per week office-based)

Important Location Requirement

Candidates must be able to attend office locations across:

• Market Drayton Office, TF9 3AH
• Oswestry Office, SY11 1JR

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced and motivated Social Worker to join the North Community Team within Adult Social Care, supporting adults with disabilities, older people, and their carers across North Shropshire.

This is an excellent opportunity for a practitioner who is passionate about promoting independence, delivering person-centred care, and supporting vulnerable adults to achieve positive outcomes within their local communities.

The role is community-based, with a strong emphasis on enabling individuals to remain safely and independently within their own homes wherever possible.

Key Responsibilities

• Undertake comprehensive assessments and fulfil statutory responsibilities under the Care Act 2014.
• Manage and support a caseload of adults with disabilities, older people, and their carers.
• Contribute to Multi-Agency Protection of Vulnerable Adults procedures and safeguarding investigations.
• Deliver high-quality social work interventions within relevant legislative frameworks, council policies, and partnership procedures.
• Apply a strengths-based approach to assessments, care planning, and reviews.
• Support individuals through hospital discharge processes, ensuring safe, timely, and effective transitions back into the community.
• Work collaboratively with health professionals, partner agencies, service users, and carers to achieve positive outcomes.
• Promote customer engagement and participation, ensuring individuals have a voice in decisions affecting their lives.
• Maintain accurate records and professional standards in line with statutory requirements and best practice.

This role is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975. As this role is eligible for an Enhanced DBS check, applicants are required to declare any cautions and convictions that are not protected under current filtering rules.

If you are an experienced Adult Social Care Social Worker looking for your next contract opportunity within a supportive and rewarding community team, we would welcome your application.

Our client Shropshire council is looking for a Senior Social Work Practitioner to join their Kinship fostering team.

You will be supporting children to remain safely within their family networks wherever possible. You will play a key role in achieving permanency for children through timely, high-quality assessments and strong relationship-based practice.

Key Responsibilities

• Complete Form K assessments to assess connected persons as foster carers.
• Undertake viability assessments to inform early permanence planning.
• Carry out SGO assessments, including support plans and court reports.
• Provide regular supervision and support to approved kinship foster carers.
• Support carers to manage placement challenges, contact arrangements, and transitions to permanence.
• Work closely with children's social workers and multi-agency partners to ensure coordinated care planning.
• Ensure all work is child-centred, evidence-based, and within statutory timescales.

About You

• Qualified Social Worker registered with Social Work England.
• Experience in: o Kinship/connected persons fostering (Form K)
• SGO assessments and permanence planning
• Viability assessments
• Supporting and supervising foster carers
• Strong analytical and report-writing skills for court and panel.
• Confident in managing risk, safeguarding, and complex family dynamics.
• Committed to achieving stable, safe outcomes for children.

Benefits of working with Remedy

• A personal one-one service from your highly experienced dedicated consultant.
• Top tier supplier across London giving us first access to jobs
• Referral bonus - up to 250 per person placed.
• Double payrolls each week.

Terms & Conditions apply

You will be required to fully register with Remedy for all locum positions.

Remedy Social Care is a APSCo Standard agency and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the vulnerable. Successful applicants will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the DBS. Our objective is to be an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from everyone with suitable skills and ability regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, gender, disability, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief. All applications will be accepted and reviewed solely on merit.

Fostering Social Work Lead

Salary: 45,000 per annum

hybrid

NonStop Consulting is is working with a therapeutic Independent Fostering Agency with an Outstanding Ofsted rating in the South West of England, in order to help them find a Fostering Social Work Lead who can join them on a permanent basis.

This is a hybrid role, offering you flexibility with your schedule. This is a non-caseholding role.

Benefits:

• Very good salary: 45,000 per annum
• Outstanding Ofsted rating
• home working
• therapeutic fostering agency
• non-caseholding role
• opportunities for career progression
• Interviews available quickly so you can secure a new role as soon as possible

Key Responsibilities:
The Fostering Social Work Lead will provide safeguarding leadership whilst maintaining a therapeutic, relationship-centred approach. You will act as the Foster Panel Advisor, supporting support high-quality decision-making, quality assure assessments and contribute to the ongoing development of the fostering agency.

You will also support staff and foster carers to grow in confidence, reflective capacity and therapeutic understanding.

Requirements:

• an experienced Qualified Social Worker / Assistant Team Manager / Foster Panel Advisor
• safeguarding experience
• experience in fostering and trauma-informed approaches
• Full driving licence

If you believe this opportunity is the right match for your skills and experience, please submit your CV (ideally in Word format) via this site.

Our client Leeds City council is looking for an Advanced Practitioner to join their team consisting of Child and Family Assessments, CIN, CP, Child Care Proceedings until permanence.

This caseload will have a level of complexity and lead worker responsibilities working alongside other social workers, it will not have supervisory / line manager responsibilities. Social workers should be able to practice restoratively with child and families and promote family led decisions to manage risk and meet support needs.

Applicants must demonstrate excellent relational work with children and families and be able to engage children through direct work and child centred practice.

Organisation skills and ability to meet competing demands are required to ensure practice standards, good quality and practice and performance.

The post requires workers to have good analytical assessment skills and with high quality written work.

Applicants must be able to drive and have use of a car.

37 hours per week 8.30 - 5pm.

Must be office based for duty but hybrid working is negotiable dependant on the needs of the team (due to the relational approach of the organisation, it is envisaged this will be office based on duty weeks and one WFH home day/compressed hours on non-duty).

Benefits of working with Remedy

• A personal one-one service from your highly experienced dedicated consultant.
• Top tier supplier across London giving us first access to jobs
• Referral bonus - up to 250 per person placed.
• Double payrolls each week.

Terms & Conditions apply

You will be required to fully register with Remedy for all locum positions.

Remedy Social Care is a APSCo Standard agency and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the vulnerable. Successful applicants will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the DBS. Our objective is to be an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from everyone with suitable skills and ability regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, gender, disability, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief. All applications will be accepted and reviewed solely on merit.

Advanced Social Work Practitioner - Family Help

• £53,051 to £56,293 (salary subject to experience)

• Permanent (full time)

• Cable Plaza, Waterfront West, Brierley Hill, Dudley

• Closing date: Friday 20 November 2026

Our Advanced Practitioners are pivotal to establishing consistently excellent social work practice in our teams.

Our developing Family Help service aims to provide targeted support and help to families so that children and families can thrive and more families are able to stay together. We recognise that providing the right type of support at the right time for families is key to working effectively and that lasting relationships with professionals is central to working alongside families and their networks. We believe in the power of relationships. Our Family Help model is rooted in Restorative practice and built on trust, consistency and co-production. You will work with families to create plans that reflect their voices and values - whether under Child in Need, Child Protection or care proceedings that will help to develop meaningful and lasting change for families. This includes increased capacity to manage complex parenting challenges and reducing risks within family networks and across our community.

Our Family Help service provides a whole family approach to support. Social workers and Family Help practitioners will co-ordinate the support offered to families drawing on the knowledge and skillset of experienced Child Practitioners; Drug and Alcohol practitioners' Probation Officers; Domestic Abuse Workers, and Mental Health Practitioners.

We are based centrally at Cable Plaza, Dudley Waterfront but our Family Help service is a locality-based model. Teams working closely alongside Dudley's 5 Family Hubs who provide early support to families through their links with our local partners. As the Family help service continues to develop, improved relationships between Family Help practitioners and our local partners will enable more families to be supported earlier when problems and difficulties are easier to address.

We believe our children and families deserve the consistency and stability in the support provided. Our service works with families who require a single assessment, a co-ordinated plan including child protection plans and we undertake pre-proceedings and care proceedings work. We recognise that strong permanency planning for our children is key to supporting family relationships and networks, even when it is not safe for children to remain within the care of a parent. Our kinship offer is developing and we working closely with our kinship team to secure creative and supportive plans for family networks.

Our service is a friendly and passionate service, always seeking to improve the best outcomes for our children and families. We offer a great opportunity to expand your skillset, knowledge, and confidence within front line help and safeguarding practice, supported by regular supervision, learning and development opportunities and a committed and supportive management team.

Our Advanced Practitioners are pivotal to establishing consistently excellent social work practice in our teams. You will be the allocated social worker for a small number our children needing the most skilled help whilst sharing your expertise with others through modelling, coaching, reflective supervision and other learning activities. You will support your team to improve the quality of performance and practice, support our ASYE social workers and work alongside our Centre for Professional Practice. Ideally you will possess the Practice Educator Award and be willing to work towards this. You will be able to demonstrate how you have led and supported practice in a children's social work setting.

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If you require more information or have any questions about this exciting opportunity please email Karen Johnson (Principal Service Lead)

We are seeking an exceptional Lead Child Protection Practitioner to join our team. This is a rewarding and challenging opportunity for an experienced social worker who is passionate about safeguarding children and committed to achieving the best possible outcomes for vulnerable children and families.

As a recognised expert in child protection, you will play a pivotal role in supporting high-quality safeguarding practice across the service. You will lead on complex child protection cases, provide professional guidance to colleagues, and work collaboratively with partner agencies to ensure children at risk of significant harm receive timely and effective intervention.

This role is ideal for a confident, resilient and highly skilled practitioner who can make sound professional judgements, apply threshold decisions effectively, and provide constructive challenge where required.

As a Lead Child Protection Practitioner, you will manage a caseload of child protection matters, including high-risk and complex cases involving children at risk of significant harm. You will work alongside and support social workers and other professionals, offering expert advice and guidance to strengthen safeguarding decision-making across multi-agency partnerships.

You will take a lead role in child protection processes, including Section 47 enquiries, children subject to Child Protection Plans, and children involved in pre-proceedings. You will also contribute to key safeguarding decisions and support practitioners to continue effective work with families where significant harm has been identified.

• Act as a recognised expert in child protection practice across social work teams and multi-agency partnerships.
• Lead and support investigations where children are at risk of significant harm.
• Manage a caseload of complex and high-risk safeguarding cases.
• Undertake and oversee Section 47 enquiries, Child Protection Plans and pre-proceedings work.
• Provide expert advice, consultation and professional challenge to practitioners and partner agencies.
• Support and co-work with social workers, including less experienced practitioners, to develop confidence, knowledge and decision-making.
• Complete high-quality assessments, reports and court documentation within required timescales.
• Present evidence and recommendations at court hearings, child protection conferences, statutory reviews and other professional forums.
• Maintain accurate and timely case records in line with statutory requirements, policies and procedures.
• Conduct joint visits and investigations alongside colleagues and partner organisations as required.
• Chair child protection core groups and other safeguarding meetings where appropriate.
• Lead multi-agency discussions and forums to ensure proportionate and effective safeguarding responses.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues across Children's Services and external partners to deliver coordinated support and improved outcomes for children and young people.

To be successful in this role, you will be:

• A qualified and registered Social Worker.
• Highly experienced in child protection and safeguarding practice.
• Confident in managing complex and high-risk cases involving significant harm.
• Skilled in applying thresholds and making informed safeguarding decisions.
• Able to provide professional challenge and influence decision-making across agencies.
• An excellent communicator with the ability to build strong professional relationships.
• Experienced in court work, statutory processes and multi-agency safeguarding arrangements.
• Committed to supporting and developing the practice of others.
• Resilient, organised and able to perform effectively in a demanding environment.

This is an opportunity to take on a specialist leadership role at the forefront of safeguarding practice. You will work alongside dedicated professionals, influence decision-making across the wider partnership, and make a significant contribution to protecting children and improving outcomes for families.

If you are an experienced child protection professional looking to use your expertise to shape practice, support colleagues and make a real difference, we would love to hear from you.

We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from all backgrounds.

Adecco is a disability-confident employer. It is important to us that we run an inclusive and accessible recruitment process to support candidates of all backgrounds and all abilities to apply. Adecco is committed to building a supportive environment for you to explore the next steps in your career. If you require reasonable adjustments at any stage, please let us know and we will be happy to support you.

We use generative AI tools to support our candidate screening process. This helps us ensure a fair, consistent, and efficient experience for all applicants. Rest assured, all final decisions are made by our hiring team, and your application will be reviewed with care and attention.

Connect2Kent is the exclusive recruitment partner to Kent County Council, recruiting talented professionals into temporary and permanent opportunities across the county.

We are currently recruiting a Social Work Assistant to join Kent County Council's Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children (UASC) Service. This is a rewarding opportunity to support young people who have arrived in the UK without a parent or guardian, helping them access essential services, settle into their communities, and navigate key stages of their journey.

The successful candidate will play an important role in supporting Social Workers and assisting with National Transfer Scheme (NTS) movements, helping ensure that young people receive timely support and smooth transitions between local authorities.

As a Social Work Assistant within the UASC Service, you will work alongside Social Workers and partner agencies to support unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and young people.

You will act as a key point of practical and emotional support, helping young people access accommodation, education, healthcare, and other essential services while ensuring their wellbeing remains at the centre of all interventions.

A significant part of the role will involve supporting the coordination of National Transfer Scheme (NTS) transfers, liaising with partner authorities and professionals to ensure young people experience a smooth and well-planned transition.

• Support Social Workers in delivering services to unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and young people.
• Assist with the coordination and administration of National Transfer Scheme (NTS) transfers.
• Liaise with receiving local authorities, placement providers, health professionals, education settings, and other partner agencies.
• Complete direct work with young people to promote their wellbeing, independence, and engagement with services.
• Assist young people in accessing accommodation, healthcare appointments, education, and community resources.
• Accompany young people to appointments, meetings, and placements where required.
• Support the gathering of information for assessments, reviews, and care planning.
• Maintain accurate electronic records and case notes in line with statutory and local requirements.
• Help identify and respond to safeguarding concerns, escalating issues appropriately to qualified Social Workers.
• Support young people through transition and resettlement processes, ensuring they understand available support and services.

We are looking for a compassionate and organised individual who is passionate about supporting vulnerable young people.

You will ideally have:

• Experience working with children, young people, or vulnerable adults within a social care, youth work, support work, education, or community setting.
• An understanding of safeguarding principles and the challenges faced by unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.
• Experience working in partnership with a range of agencies and professionals.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills.
• The ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent organisational and record-keeping skills.
• A flexible and proactive approach to supporting young people from diverse backgrounds.
• A full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle is essential.

Connect2Kent is a trading style of Commercial Services Kent LTD - A company wholly owned by Kent County Council. Connect2Kent is an equal opportunities Employment Agency & Business. It positively encourages applications from all suitably qualified and eligible candidates.

Programme Leader in Social Work

Permanent

Location: the North West

Start date: 16 October 2026

Are you an experienced Social Work professional with a passion for teaching and leading others?

About the Role

You'll join a further education provider in the North West as Programme Leader in Social Work, taking the lead on curriculum delivery and development within this subject area. You'll combine teaching with programme leadership, ensuring learners receive high-quality tuition while the provision continues to meet current professional and regulatory standards.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading and coordinating the Social Work programme, overseeing planning, delivery and quality improvement.
• Teaching across the programme, delivering engaging and effective sessions.
• Supporting, mentoring and collaborating with teaching colleagues to maintain consistently high standards.
• Monitoring learner progress and assessing work to support achievement.
• Contributing to curriculum development so that content reflects current practice in the sector.

What We're Looking For

Essential:

• Relevant professional experience in Social Work
• A relevant qualification in Social Work at degree level or above
• A teaching qualification, or a willingness to work towards one

Desirable (but not essential):

• Previous experience in a programme leadership or course leadership role
• Experience teaching within a further education setting

If you're ready to lead and shape the future of this programme, we'd love to hear from you.

Important Notice

Dovetail and Slate is a specialist education recruitment company. If this role isn't quite right, we welcome your CV and a call to explore other opportunities.

We are committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults. All appointments are subject to satisfactory vetting, including a right to work check and, where relevant, an enhanced DBS, PVG (Scotland), or EWC (Wales) check, in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education.

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Because education matters.

Dovetail and Slate Limited.

Eden Brown Synergy is currently recruiting for an experienced Senior Practitioner Adult Social Worker with relevant Mental Health experience for an exciting opportunity in East Sussex.

We are looking for a confident and experienced social worker who can work effectively within adult social care and mental health services, supporting individuals with complex needs and working collaboratively with partner agencies.

Location: East Sussex
Rate: 40 per hour
Specialism: Adult Social Care - Mental Health

• Social Work qualification and current professional registration

• Strong experience within Adult Social Care

• Relevant experience working within Mental Health services

• Ability to manage complex situations and work collaboratively with professionals and partner agencies

• Excellent communication, assessment and safeguarding skills

• Ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team

• DBS check processed and paid for by Eden Brown Synergy

• 300 referral bonus when you refer a colleague or friend

• Bonus for finding your own job

• Twice-weekly payroll

• Dedicated recruitment consultant who will support you throughout your job search, employment and beyond

If you are interested in this opportunity, please send your up-to-date CV to Shristi Yadav at removed) or call (phone number removed).

Refer someone who might be interested in this role and receive a 300 referral bonus.

Eden Brown Synergy is an equal opportunities employer.

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To work within a Resilience Framework, providing a comprehensive, effective and integrated social work service to children and families, particularly in complex and high-risk situations. The post holder will ensure that services are delivered in a timely manner and in accordance with statutory legislation, safeguarding requirements, departmental policies and the council s statutory obligations.

The post holder will demonstrate advanced social work practice, professional autonomy and leadership, supporting positive outcomes for children and families while promoting safeguarding, permanence and the opportunity for every child to reach their full potential.

• Manage a complex caseload of children and families, undertaking assessments, planning and interventions to safeguard children and promote their welfare.
• Assess, manage and respond to high levels of risk, ensuring appropriate safeguarding measures are implemented and reviewed.
• Develop, implement and evaluate child protection, care planning and permanence arrangements in line with statutory requirements.
• Demonstrate expert social work practice in complex situations, exercising sound professional judgement and making evidence-based decisions.
• Provide guidance, support, supervision and mentoring to less experienced social workers to promote high standards of practice.
• Take a lead role in a specialist area of practice, as directed by departmental policies and procedures.
• Deputise for the line manager when required or undertake delegated management responsibilities as authorised by the designated Head of Service.
• Work collaboratively with children, families, carers and multi-agency professionals to achieve positive outcomes.
• Ensure that children s voices, wishes and feelings are heard and considered throughout assessment, planning and decision-making processes.
• Maintain accurate, timely and comprehensive case records, reports and assessments in accordance with council policies and statutory requirements.
• Promote strengths-based and resilience-focused practice, empowering families and supporting children to achieve their full potential.
• Identify and respond to emerging safeguarding concerns, escalating risks appropriately and ensuring that interventions are proportionate and effective.
• Contribute to service development, quality assurance and the continuous improvement of social work practice.

• Recognised social work qualification and registration with Social Work England.
• Substantial post-qualifying experience within a statutory Children s Social Care setting.
• Extensive experience managing complex cases involving safeguarding, child protection and permanence planning.
• Demonstrable ability to assess and manage high levels of risk and make sound professional decisions.
• Strong knowledge of relevant legislation, statutory guidance, safeguarding procedures and local authority policies.
• Experience supporting, mentoring and developing less experienced social workers.
• Excellent communication, assessment, report-writing and multi-agency working skills.
• Ability to work autonomously, prioritise competing demands and manage a complex caseload effectively.
• Commitment to promoting children s welfare, participation, equality and positive outcomes.