An exciting opportunity has arisen to join us as a Youth Justice Social Worker. You will work with children who have been referred to the service by the Police for an out of court disposal or have been made subject to an order by the courts.
We are a high performing service and welcome candidates who share our obsession to help children overcome barriers to achieve and succeed. You will need to have experience and a passion for working with adolescents.
It is important that you have a creative approach, plenty of energy, initiative, and the ability to forge effective partnerships with other agencies.
Bexley Children’s Services has adopted Signs of Safety as its practice model. This strengths and solution focused ethos of working with families and colleagues is threaded throughout all areas of Children’s Social Care. As part of your role, you will work alongside this practice framework.
Bexley provides exceptional training, development and supervision and our YJS staff retention rates are excellent. The successful candidate will be supported to develop or strengthen their knowledge and skills in trauma-informed practice and have access to a wide range of multi-disciplinary training as well as clinical supervision.
Please refer to the Job Description attached for more information.
For an informal discussion about the role please contact Lynsey Riglin, Team Manager, 0203045 3513, [email protected]
Candidate Profile
You need to be a qualified social worker with experience of working with adolescents, preferably in a youth justice or adolescent safeguarding setting.
For the full list of essential and desirable criteria for this role then please refer to the Person Specification within the Job Description attached.
Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)