Shared Services Partnership
Location
Westminster, Greater London | United Kingdom
Job description
Salary range: £43,824 - £54,135 per annum
Work location: 4 Frampton Street, London, NW8 8LF
Hours per week: 36
Contract type: Permanent
Vetting requirements: Enhanced DBS Check
Closing date: 24 March 2024
Interview date: Week commencing 1 April 2024
Contact details for Informal discussion: David Stoffell, Access Interim Service Manager, via email: [email protected]
THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF SHOFA’S MARKET
Children’s Services in Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories. Where courageous and inspiring professionals bring everything to their work.
Sometimes this even includes heartbreak. Shofa is a shining example. Shofa’s brother suffered with his mental health and died tragically young. She uses his memory as motivation to give Westminster Youth Council members the opportunity to have a voice and get involved in decision making. This passion resulted in in her innovation: The Westminster Youth Market. Here local teenagers learn about entrepreneurship and develop their personal skills. This is an inclusive platform where everyone’s contribution and abilities are celebrated. Inspired by a promising life cut short, Shofa believes without vision there is no direction and every young person should be supported to realise their dreams.
As a Social Worker in the Front Door Access Team you can make your own powerful contribution to Westminster’s success. Talking to families and professionals, you’ll gather and analyse information to make sure children are safeguarded and support is offered at the earliest opportunity. Taking a child-focused approach, you’ll seek the best possible understanding of each child’s lived experience. In this role, you’ll develop your ability to assess and analyse risk, and enhance your understanding of thresholds. This means you’ll be well-placed to make sure children and families get the right level of support.
Our Front door team is the catalyst for positive change in the lives of children and their families. We invite you to embrace a dynamic social work role where your skills become the gateway to essential support, fostering resilience and empowerment from the very first encounter for a family. Make a meaningful impact with us, where every interaction opens doors to transformative possibilities.
Please refer to the Job Description for more information.
With a recognised Social Work qualification and registration with Social Work England, you’ll have well developed experience of working with vulnerable children and families, ideally in a local authority children’s services environment. Capable of assessing and engaging with families from a range of cultural and ethnic backgrounds, and with experience of understanding and supporting families to overcome complex problems and needs, you’ll be ready to work collaboratively with a diverse range of professionals and other colleagues.
It's important that you have experience of needs-led planning and reviews for children in need of help, protection and care, and of working with children of different ages, needs and cultural backgrounds, some of whom may have challenging behaviours and underlying vulnerabilities and traumas. With this in mind, you’ll have excellent communications skills as you engage with the children and young people you work with, and the ability to assess needs and risk while facilitating opportunities for change and development in families.
Capable of writing high quality reports and with the skills to manage your time effectively while balancing the demands of direct work, record keeping and statutory processes, you’ll also be capable of intervening meaningfully and managing the personal impact of your work.
Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster.
Westminster City Council’s strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.
At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit
As a forward thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.
The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application , we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.
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