Our client, Reading Borough Council, is seeking an agency Social Worker for its Together for Families Service.


This is a 3-month post initially, paid at £38 per hour.


Working Arrangement - Candidate could be on duty every 3 weeks or sometimes every 6 weeks and the expectation is that they will need to be in the office for duty weeks - non-duty weeks; 2 days in the office.




The role will involve the following:
*Our Together for Families Service, which went live in April 2022, brings together under one service our Children Single Point of Access (CSPoA) team, the Missing and Exploitation team, the Supporting Families team and combines the former Access & Assessment (A&A) and Family Intervention (FIT) teams into nine Together for Families teams.
*Our Together for Families teams will allow for relational social work to be at the heart of our practice; with a relentless focus in developing trusting relationships with children and young people, to hear what they are telling us and to understand their lived experience so we can support them and their parents/families to achieve the very best outcomes.
*The main difference you’ll notice is that the same social worker will be allocated to a child or young person for the duration of the time that their case is open to Children’s Social Care. This remains until we either close the case or the child/young person is transferred to our Children Looked After Service for ongoing support.
*This will mean far fewer transitions for children and families and will help further develop our relational-based social work practice, which is one of our key aims.
*This service provides support for families which draws on principles of trauma -informed, whole family approaches, in keeping with our Architecture for Professional Practice




Please let me know if you are interested? Or can you refer a friend for £250 if placed?




Requirements of the role:
*Qualified Social Worker
*Fully Social Work England registered
*3 years post-qualified experience in employment of a local authority (DFE rules)
*Must have significant post-qualified experience in frontline children’s social care e.g. Child Protection, Assessment, Looked After etc.




Please contact Lindsey Morgan asap to discuss in more detail. We are offering £250 joining bonus for new starters with Reed.



Alternatively, we are offering £250 if you refer a friend or colleague and they are placed successfully into this or any other QSW role.