Family Help Social Worker

Family Help Social Worker Company: Enfield Council Salary: £43,680 - £51,138 Hours: Full-time Location: Enfield, EN1 3XA Job type: Permanent Posting date: 6 Aug 2026 Closing date: 4 Sept 2026 Join Enfield's Integrated Family Help Service Social Work Practitioner Full or Part-Time Salary Range £43,680 - £51,138 Enfield are looking to recruit experienced social work practitioners' level 3 or above who have successfully completed their ASYE in our new integrated Family Help Teams. The Family Help Service is an integrated preventive service that brings together advanced social work practitioners, social work practitioners and family help practitioners, working alongside one another to offer support to children and families in need that require a range of coordinated interventions from targeted early help through to child protection. There are currently social work vacancies in the generic family help teams and disability family help team. We are looking for enthusiastic, able and experienced qualified social workers registered with Social Work England. Practitioners will be required to demonstrate a good understanding of the diverse needs of children and show experience of being involved in applying a strength-based approach to assessing, planning and reviewing processes to support families or individual children to empower and affect change. The social work practitioners will have a varied caseload, offering support to empower parents and carers to build on the family's strengths preventing family breakdown and improving outcomes for children and families. This is a great opportunity to join an excellent service that works together with families to achieve positive outcomes for children and young people. We are in an exciting period of transformation with our new integrated family help teams having recently gone live. The Family help Teams will be supported by a developing, strong MACPT (multi-agency child protection team) that will be going live towards the end of the year. Our leadership culture is grounded in openness, learning and shared responsibility, with a commitment to supporting staff with their wellbeing, alongside professional development and achieving best practice. You will be joining a service that has high standards, values professional curiosity, collective accountability and innovation, creating the conditions for everyone to do their best work to achieve positive outcomes for children and families. Enfield is committed to supporting staff to develop their skills and as such offers a comprehensive induction and a bespoke training programme available to all case holding practitioners. You will receive high-quality support from an experienced manager and given opportunities to contribute to service developments. Enfield's Centre of Excellence confirms our commitment to creating and maintaining an environment for new and existing staff to be the best, delivering high quality case work to our most vulnerable children and young people. It brings our recruitment, professional development and support into the one portal for staff to see what we have to offer and how we are supporting them to continue to learn and develop on a professional basis. For more information, please visit https://new.enfield.gov.uk/centreofexcellence/about-us/ "This authority is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment". For further information please contact: Anne Stoker Director of Transformation: Children's Services at strategicsocialcare@enfield.gov.uk. Closing date for applications is 31st August with interviews expected on the 9th and 10th of September. If you have any difficulties accessing this information, please contact Debola Olufon at debola.olufon@enfield.gov.uk. We reserve the right to close this vacancy once a sufficient number of applications have been received. Therefore, we advise that you complete fully and submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment. We do not see your name or title when shortlisting your application. This is one of many initiatives to build a more talented and diverse workforce. However, if you put your name on your CV or Statement it will be visible to us. For this reason, we ask that you do not include your name on these documents. Please note it is your responses to the Essential/Desirable criteria, as detailed in the Job Description and Person Specification which is available on the job advert, that will determine if you are shortlisted for an interview, therefore we encourage you to always address the essential and desirable criteria in your application/CV. Why it's great to work for Enfield Council: * An excellent pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS). * Up to 32 days annual leave depending on grade and length of service. You will also get eight public holidays per year and an extra day off at Christmas. * A blend of remote and office based working for most roles. * Interest free season ticket loan repayable over three or ten months. * Career development and learning experiences from a range of training courses and learning methods. * Employee Assistance Programme to provide advice and counselling services. This is a free and confidential service available to staff and members of their family. * Health and leisure discounts and tax‐free bikes for work. * 1 month's paid sabbatical for registered Social Workers working in Children's Social Care. We are passionate about our people and how we deliver services to our community in Enfield. That's why we encourage a culture that puts our customers at the heart of everything we do - by empowering our people to work together to find solutions, be open, honest and respectful, take responsibility and listen and learn. If you value these behaviours too, we'd love to hear from you - and of course we are always happy to talk flexible working. If you have previously applied for this role within the past 6 months, unfortunately, a second application will not be considered. Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme About Disability Confident Disability Confident is a government scheme. It encourages employers to recruit and retain disabled people and those with long term health conditions. #J-18808-Ljbffr

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