In Bexley we are committed to recruiting and developing newly qualified social workers to help them become competent, capable, relationship based, solution focused, and risk-sensible practitioners.   

We are now recruiting the eighth cohort of our NQSW Academy and, if successful, you can expect to join us in September 2019!  

In your first year of employment with us, you will be appointed as a Newly Qualified Children’s Social Worker where you will be supported by our Workforce Academy Team. The role of the Academy is to provide students, NQSWs, social workers, and frontline managers with the tools, support, training, and professional development opportunities they need to deliver outstanding services to our children and families in Bexley.  

Our ASYE programme consists of a comprehensive two week induction to introduce you to the various parts of our service and teams that work in supporting our children and families.  Following this, you will be given an incremental caseload in your team that will be gradually increased to a maximum of 16 children’s cases.  Your Practice Educator provides you 1:1 support in helping your learning and development as well as your regular assessment reviews and completing your ASYE portfolio.  

The Council, its staff and partners, were delighted in August 2018 when Ofsted judged the overall effectiveness of children’s social care services to be ‘outstanding’!  We were especially pleased that our investment in frontline practitioners and managers was recognised.  Ofsted concluded that, “Bexley is a safe and supportive place to work with highly creative work undertaken by a skilled and well supported workforce.”

We believe deeply in relationship based social work practice and ‘Signs of Safety’ is our strengths based practice model that informs how we work with children and families in a respectful and collaborative manner.  We believe this is what provides the best and safest outcomes for the children and young people that we serve and support. 

If this sounds appealing to you then we would love to hear from you!  We are looking for qualified social workers who are excited to learn and are passionate about helping children.

For more information in respect of our teams please use the following link: https://bexleysocialcarecareers.wordpress.com/childrens-services/

If you would like to discuss the role in more detail then please contact the Academy team on 020 3045 3037 or 4020.

To be applicable for this position, you will be required to have completed a statutory placement within children’s social care.  Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service.  

Interviews and assessments for this post will take place on 1 August 2019 and you will need to be available for the entire day.

Please visit https://jobs.bexley.gov.uk/wrlive to find out more and apply

CVs will only be accepted if submitted with a completed application form.

Bexley is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

This post is considered by the authority to be a customer-facing position; as such it falls within scope of the Code of Practice on English language requirement for public sector workers. The council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards areset out in the JD/Person Specification. These will be applied during the recruitment/selection and probationary stages.