Children's SP - MASH Team - Staffordshire

Added 10/11/2026

We are seeking an experienced and committed Children’s Social Worker to join a Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) team. This is an important role focused on responding to contacts and referrals concerning children and young people, identifying safeguarding risks and ensuring that appropriate support is provided at the earliest opportunity. Working within a fast-paced, multi-disciplinary environment, you will gather and analyse information from partner agencies, including education, health, police and other services. You will assess presenting concerns, make informed decisions about thresholds for intervention and contribute to effective information-sharing and risk management. Your professional judgement will help determine whether cases require...

Children's SP - CIC Team - Staffordshire

Added 10/11/2026

We are seeking a qualified Children’s Social Worker to join a Children in Care (CIC) team, supporting children and young people who are looked after and helping them achieve positive, safe and stable futures. This is an opportunity to make a meaningful difference through relationship-based, child-centred practice. You will manage a varied caseload, completing high-quality assessments and reviews, developing effective care plans and ensuring that children’s needs, wishes and feelings remain central to all decisions. You will work to promote permanence, stability and positive outcomes, whether through reunification, placement with family, long-term fostering, adoption or other appropriate arrangements. Your responsibilities...

Children's SP - Assessment Team - Staffordshire

Added 10/11/2026

An experienced and committed Children’s Social Worker is sought to join an Assessment Team on a temporary or permanent basis. This is an opportunity to make a meaningful difference to children, young people and families by undertaking high-quality assessments and helping to ensure that children receive the right support at the right time. As a Children’s Social Worker, you will manage a varied caseload involving children and families who may require support, protection or statutory intervention. You will complete child and family assessments, identify risk and need, and develop effective plans that promote children’s safety, wellbeing and development. You will...

Children's SP - Assessment Team - Staffordshire

Added 10/11/2026

We are seeking a committed and experienced Children’s Social Worker to join an Assessment Team in Staffordshire. This is an opportunity to make a meaningful difference to children and families by completing timely, strengths-based assessments and ensuring that children’s needs, wishes and feelings remain at the centre of all decision-making. You will manage a varied caseload involving referrals, child and family assessments, safeguarding enquiries and interventions. Your responsibilities will include identifying risk, assessing parenting capacity, developing effective plans and making recommendations that promote children’s safety and welfare. You will work closely with children, parents, carers and wider family networks, ensuring...

Team Manager - Risk Outside the Home (ROTH) Team - Lewisham

Added 15/10/2026

Team Manager - Risk Outside the Home (ROTH) TeamLewisham Council | Hybrid Working£45.20 per hour UmbrellaCaritas Recruitment is proud to be supporting Lewisham Council in the recruitment of an experienced Team Manager to lead their specialist Risk Outside the Home (ROTH) Team.This is a fantastic opportunity for an inspirational leader with a passion for adolescent safeguarding, contextual safeguarding, and protecting vulnerable young people at risk of exploitation, serious youth violence, county lines activity, missing episodes and other extra-familial harms.Working across both the Risk Outside the Home Team and Multi-Agency Child Protection Team (MACPT), you will lead and develop a team...

Children's SSW - Multi-Disciplinary Team - Redbridge

Added 10/11/2026

An exciting opportunity is available for a qualified Children’s Social Worker to join a supportive multi-disciplinary team. This role is suited to an experienced practitioner who is committed to improving outcomes for children, young people and their families, and who can work confidently across professional boundaries. You will manage a varied caseload involving children and young people who may require assessment, safeguarding intervention, care planning and ongoing support. Your responsibilities will include completing high-quality assessments, developing and reviewing child-centred plans, undertaking statutory visits, contributing to strategy discussions and preparing clear reports for meetings and court proceedings where required. Working collaboratively...

Children's SW - CSW Team - Kent

Added 10/11/2026

We are seeking a committed and experienced Children’s Social Worker to join a dedicated Children’s Social Work team. This is an opportunity to make a meaningful difference to children, young people and families by providing purposeful, relationship-based social work that promotes safety, wellbeing and positive outcomes. You will manage a varied caseload involving children who may require support through safeguarding, child in need, child protection and care proceedings. Your responsibilities will include completing high-quality assessments, identifying risk and need, developing effective plans and reviewing progress regularly. You will work directly with children and families, ensuring their voices are heard and...

Children's SW - Safeguarding Team - Nottinghamshire

Added 10/11/2026

We are seeking a dedicated and experienced Children’s Social Worker to join a Safeguarding Team supporting children, young people and their families across Nottinghamshire. This is an excellent opportunity for a qualified social work professional who is committed to improving outcomes and ensuring children are safe, heard and appropriately supported. You will manage a varied caseload involving child protection, children in need, looked-after children and complex safeguarding matters. Your responsibilities will include completing high-quality assessments, undertaking statutory visits, developing and reviewing plans, preparing reports for conferences and court, and making well-informed recommendations based on evidence and professional judgement. You will...

Children's AP - Family Help Team - Oldham

Added 10/11/2026

An exciting opportunity is available for a qualified Children’s Social Worker to join a Family Help Team as an Advanced Practitioner. This role offers the chance to provide skilled, child-centred social work to children, young people and families, helping them achieve positive and sustainable outcomes. You will work within a supportive, multi-disciplinary environment where strengths-based practice, early intervention and partnership working are central to service delivery. As an Advanced Practitioner, you will manage a varied caseload involving children and families with a range of needs and levels of complexity. Your responsibilities will include undertaking assessments, developing and reviewing plans, completing...

Children's SSW - Duty & Short Term Help Team - Walsall

Added 10/11/2026

We are seeking a qualified Children’s Social Worker to join a Duty and Short-Term Help Team in Walsall. This is an opportunity to make a meaningful difference to children, young people and families by responding promptly to new referrals, assessing needs and providing focused support at times of crisis or change. You will manage a varied caseload, undertaking high-quality assessments and making timely, evidence-based decisions in line with statutory responsibilities and safeguarding procedures. Your duties will include responding to contacts and referrals, identifying risk, completing child and family assessments, developing outcome-focused plans and coordinating appropriate services. You will provide short-term...

Children's SP - Family Help & Protection Team - Walsall

Added 10/11/2026

We are seeking a qualified Children’s Social Worker to join a Family Help and Protection Team in Walsall. This is an opportunity to make a meaningful difference to children, young people and families by providing skilled, child-centred social work within a supportive and collaborative environment. You will manage a varied caseload involving children who may require family support, protection planning or statutory intervention. Your responsibilities will include completing high-quality assessments, undertaking direct work with children and families, developing and reviewing plans, and ensuring that children’s wishes, feelings and best interests remain central to all decisions. You will work closely with...

PERMChildren's SSW - Family Help Team - Gloucestershire

Added 10/11/2026

An exciting permanent opportunity is available for a qualified Children’s Social Worker to join a Family Help Team in Gloucestershire. You will work alongside children, young people and their families to provide purposeful, relationship-based support that promotes safety, stability and positive outcomes. You will manage a varied caseload, completing high-quality assessments and developing effective plans with families. Your responsibilities will include identifying strengths and areas of need, coordinating support, reviewing progress and taking appropriate action where risks escalate. You will work directly with children and young people to ensure their views, wishes and feelings inform planning and decision-making. The role...

Children's SW - C&F Team - Devon

Added 10/11/2026

We are seeking a qualified Children’s Social Worker to join a dedicated Children and Families team. This is an opportunity to make a meaningful difference to children, young people and their families by providing skilled, child-centred social work practice and helping them achieve positive, lasting outcomes. You will manage a varied caseload involving children in need, child protection, looked-after children and care proceedings. Your responsibilities will include completing high-quality assessments, developing and reviewing care plans, undertaking statutory visits, preparing reports and making evidence-based recommendations. You will work closely with children and families to understand their experiences, strengths and needs, ensuring...

Children's HOS - Family Safeguarding Team - Somerset

Added 10/11/2026

An experienced and committed Head of Service is required to lead a Family Safeguarding Team within a children’s social care service. This is a senior leadership opportunity for a qualified social worker who can provide clear direction, promote excellent practice and ensure children, young people and families receive timely, effective and compassionate support. You will be responsible for the operational management and continuous improvement of the service, overseeing social work practice across family safeguarding arrangements. Your duties will include providing professional leadership to service managers and practitioners, monitoring performance, managing resources and ensuring that statutory responsibilities are met. You will...

Adult's SW - Transfer of Care Integrated Team - Tameside

Added 10/11/2026

An experienced Adult Social Worker is required to join a Transfer of Care Integrated Team, supporting people to move safely and effectively from hospital or other care settings into the most appropriate community-based support. This is an opportunity to make a meaningful difference by promoting independence, wellbeing and positive outcomes for adults, their families and carers. You will complete strengths-based assessments, identify eligible needs and develop person-centred support plans in partnership with individuals and relevant professionals. Your responsibilities will include facilitating safe discharges, arranging appropriate care and support, reviewing outcomes and responding to changing circumstances. You will work closely with...