The role
About us:
We are the largest local authority social landlord in London, managing 55,000 homes lived in by 40% of Southwark’s residents. We are home to over 18,300 businesses including iconic London venues and social enterprises and we have a young, diverse and growing population.
At Southwark we are committed to making our borough just and fair and are taking positive action to tackle inequalities. Our residents and communities are our greatest asset and the passion we have for Southwark is shared by millions of Londoners who enjoy our outstanding cultural offer, use our hospitals and attend our universities. Our refreshed borough plan and focus on Southwark Stands Together, (which is our work with Southwark’s communities and the council’s staff to tackle racism, injustice and inequality) underpins all that we do.
The 16+ Leaving Care service works with looked after children and care leavers aged from 16 up to 25 years of age. The Young Women’s EP role would provide a great opportunity for a social worker with experience and passion for working with vulnerable young women; the role involves supporting a targeted cohort of care leavers in areas such as pregnancy, parenting, involvement with children’s services processes as well as court proceedings and family separation.
The role:
Southwark's 16+ Leaving Care Service is recruiting for an Experienced Practitioner (EP) - to take on the role of Young Women’s Worker. This is a great opportunity for a Social Worker to step into an Experienced Practitioner role in an interesting and dynamic area of children’s services.
Alongside holding a small, targeted caseload the post holder will offer individual and group case consultations across the service to other practitioners and will provide a weekly drop in for young people in other teams. The post holder is expected to drive practice standards and upskill practitioners through training sessions and the sharing of knowledge, services and resources. The post holder may be required to stand in for the team manager at times and therefore needs to evidence strong leadership credentials.
This role sits within an Experienced Practitioner team with other Experienced Practitioners including, EET, housing, social capital, group work and substance misuse.
About you:
This role requires a strong advocate for care leavers and you will need to understand pathways and thresholds across different teams and organisations. A good working knowledge is required around both children’s and adults services as well as community organisations/resources that support mental/physical health needs, parenting/family support, domestic violence and sexual health.
This role requires a creative, dynamic and tenacious practitioner who can engage with and support teenagers and young women through crisis and build supportive and effective multi-agency networks around them to improve long term outcomes for them and often their children.
Benefits and more information:
From flexible working to job sharing (where possible) we are committed to providing a healthy work life balance. You will benefit from 29 days basic annual leave (plus bank holidays), rising to 36 days with continuous service, a generous local government salary related pension, cycle to work and cycle loan scheme, season-ticket loan, confidential wellbeing and counselling support. For more information about the wide variety of benefits you can take advantage of please visit our Staff Benefits page.
Additional details
This post requires a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at enhanced level.
To discuss this role please contact Steve Chaplin, Service Manager - Steve.chaplin@southwark.gov.uk
Recruitment timetable
Closing date: Sunday 4th June 2023 at 23:59
Interview date: w/c 12th June 2023
SWCHTF
We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together programme. We particularly welcome applications from members of the Black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.
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