The role
About Southwark:
Southwark is a large, ambitious and progressive council with a ‘can do’ attitude and enviable reputation. As a Council, we are successful, passionate and forward-thinking. We are committed to our ‘Fairer Futures for All’ promise which ensures that our residents and businesses are central to everything we do. If you want to make a difference at a local level, apply to Southwark Council today.
The Role:
As part of our approach to continuous improvement we have set a priority to develop “an improved cross system approach to the challenges of helping vulnerable adolescents - Ensuring our young people are safely able to grow towards independence and are protected from all threats and risks to them both inside and outside the home.”
Central to delivering our improvement priority is the development of a new Adolescent Safeguarding Service within our Children’s Social Care Division. The Service will develop as a centre of excellence for social work and social care delivery for vulnerable adolescents, both working directly with those most in need of help, support and protection, and working across the multi-agency partnership to understand, develop and embed innovation and best practice in supporting vulnerable adolescents, and those at risk of exploitation and extra-familial harm.
At the heart of the Service will be our Extra-Familial Harm and Missing Team. The Team will works with our statutory and non-statutory social care teams and the wider multi-agency partnership to lead and develop the whole Borough response to children at risk of exploitation and harm outside the home, contextual safeguarding, and those children and young people who go missing from home and care.
About you:
As one of two Family Support Workers on the Team you will need to be ambitious for yourself, our services and most importantly our children, young people and their families. You will have strong experience of direct work with children at risk of exploitation and extra-familial harm and who go missing from home and care, a positive track record of engagement and communicating with young people to effect positive change for them and a passion for helping and protecting some of the most vulnerable young people. As part of the Team you will have the opportunity to pilot, showcase and lead the development of innovative social care practice and partnership working across the Borough, and be a champion of ‘safeguarding first’ cultural change across services.
If you would like to know more information or a preliminary discussion please contact Ahmed Osman on ahmed.osman@southwark.gov.uk
Additional salary details
Please note that this role will require an Enhanced DBS.
Recruitment timetable
Application Closing date: 10th July 2022
Interview and Assessment date: 20th July 2022
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 initiative. 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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