Social Work Adviser

Location

Islington, Greater London | United Kingdom

Job description

Social Work Adviser

Hours: 35 hours per week (alternative hours can be proposed and should be specified in your application)
Salary: NJC scale PO5 – £46,464 to £49,498 plus £3,650 if regularly attending London office + 5% pension contribution
Location: Islington and home-based. This role is suitable for hybrid working and other flexible modes

Family Rights Group (FRG) was founded in 1974 and aims to create a more socially just society in which the child welfare and family justice systems support children to live safely and thrive within their family and strengthen the family and community networks of those children who cannot live at home. Our work includes:

Our work includes:

• Our free specialist advice and advocacy service, staffed by experts in child welfare law and practice, supports parents and kinship carers in England, helping them to understand their rights and options.
• We pioneer innovative child welfare practices so that children can live safely in their family. For example, we introduced family group conferences to the UK so families lead on making a safe plan for their child’s welfare.
• Lifelong Links: We designed this approach to build and strengthen family and support networks for children and young people in care across the UK.
• We are the leading national policy and legal authority on kinship care. Our campaigning successes include securing the two-child tax credit exemption for kinship carers and recent reforms to legal aid. We provide the secretariat to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Kinship Care and the Kinship Care Alliance.
• We support families to use their voices and experiences to help shape the child welfare and family justice system including through our parents’ and kinship carers’ panels.

As Social Work Adviser you will play a key role in developing the charity’s participation, advice, and policy work, including leading on specific projects and campaign activities.

Due to exciting recent developments and funding, you will also have a critical role in the development of the organisation’s family and young people’s engagement work.

The scope of the role will ensure that you build on the organisation’s strong reputation with social care practitioners and decision-makers, keeping ahead of relevant research developments and best practice locally and internationally, and putting the experiences of families at the centre of child welfare discussions.

In all areas of your work, you will listen to the families we are working with and will be focused on ensuring that our work addresses their needs.

Benefits of working for Family Rights Group include:

• a generous pension (5% employer contribution)
• 27 days holiday allowance (rising to 30), plus 3 additional days at the end of the year
• playing a key role in a small but effective team
• a wide-ranging Employee Assistance Programme for all staff and other well-being initiatives, including a cycle to work scheme
• flexibility with location (London/home-based)

This is a full-time or part-time role (flexible requests are welcome and can be specified in the application form). Hybrid working and home-working are options. Below is a full job description and person specification for the role. Please read it carefully before applying.

The charity is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion in all aspects of its work, including employment.

We are committed to being a disability confident employer. As well as providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process, we are actively seeking applicants with disabilities for our roles.

Application process:

If you would like a conversation about the role prior to applying please contact our Principal Social Work Adviser Pam Ledward ([email protected]).

We anonymise all applications when shortlisting to help ensure that all candidates are evaluated solely on their skills and experience.

The deadline for applications for this position is Tuesday 16th April (9am).
Interviews will be provisionally held online on 23rd April. Downloads

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