Social Worker - LAC

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Job description

Social Worker LAC

Permanent, Full time (36 hours)

Salary: SW Level 2/3 £33,324 to £42,855

Ref: 7503

Enfield Looked After Children team are recruiting!

We are looking confident, experienced and skilled social workers who are determined to achieve the best for looked after children; to achieve their permanency and help them to meet their full potential.

As a social worker in a Looked After Children's Team, your aim and role will be to support children living with relatives, family friends or foster families or perspective adopters, or older children living in children's homes. You will be responsible for ensuring their safety and support them towards independence, while fulfilling the council's obligations as a corporate parent. You will be involved in permanency planning for children thorough Care Proceedings and beyond, ensuring their holistic needs are met in their long-term placement.

You will be required to prepare reports and attend Court to represent the Local Authority and should be experienced in Court work.

Through regular visits, assessments and by reviewing their Care Plan, you will nurture and develop meaningful relationships with children; understand and interpret their wishes, complete high-quality direct work and life story work with children.

You will be supported in this challenging role with regular reflective individual and group supervision. The role is to work alongside other professionals, to ensure that a child or young person receives appropriate care, education and health services, by working alongside other social workers and partnership organisations such as Foster carers, Health Services, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), Education, The Regional Adoption Agency and Independent Reviewing officers.

How to apply:

To apply, please visit our website via the button below.

This role requires that you upload 2 documents - in the "Document upload" section of the online application form.

1. Your CV or Full work history document completed since leaving full time education, as this is a safeguarding role and requires you to work with Children and/or vulnerable adults.

Enfield's Social Care Centre of Excellence confirms our commitment to creating and maintaining an environment for new and existing staff to be the best and deliver high quality social work to our most vulnerable children and young people. It brings our recruitment, professional development and support into the one portal for social care 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

This post will remain open until it is filled or no longer available. Applications will be reviewed on a first come first served basis. If you are interested, we would encourage you to apply as soon as possible as once a suitable candidate is sourced, the vacancy will be withdrawn.

If you would like to know more about the role, please contact Karen Alderton on or Jessica Hallaways on for an informal discussion or to arrange a visit to the team.

"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".