Social Workers - Localities

Want to find out more about working in Bradford? Here are some reasons why you'll love it...

Are you an experienced social worker who is passionate about empowering children, families and communities to thrive? Do you believe in the power of compassion, resilience and advocacy? Do you put children at the heart of every decision? If so, we invite you to bring your skills, values and dedication to a team where your work truly matters. As a social worker with us, you will be part of a supportive, forward-thinking service committed to safeguarding and promoting wellbeing across our diverse communities.

We need courageous social workers who enthusiastically embraces change, thrives on challenge, and tackles the most complex needs with drive and determination to ensure the best outcomes for the children and young people of Bradford.

Your passion keeps you focused on delivering the highest standards at every opportunity.

As well as steering the course of the service we want to provide, your experience, guidance and dedication will provide invaluable support and inspiration for those around you.

If you’re up for the Challenge and want to help us achieve our vision, then we’d love to hear from you!

We are currently recruiting for Social Workers in the following Services / Localities:

• Bradford East – currently Sir Henry Mitchell House
• Bradford South – currently Sir Henry Mitchell House
• Bradford West – Farcliffe Family Centre
• Keighley and Shipley – Keighley Town Hall
• Children with Complex Health & Disabilities Team (CCHDT) – Shipley Town Hall

Bradford Children and Families Trust was established in April 2023 to bring a step change in the quality and delivery of Children’s Services across our district.

Our purpose is clear - to ensure that our promise to improve the lives of children and young people in Bradford becomes a reality. It’s a tough ask. It requires dedication, determination, and resilience – but under our Chief Executive, Senior Leadership team and an unswerving drive to deliver the best outcomes, we are confident that we will achieve our ambition.

Our Ofsted monitoring visits over the past 18 months, evidence that we are on the right trajectory and that significant improvements have been made and are being embedded.

This means that the children and families we come in to contact with are having a better experience with the right support being offered at the right time. We are not sitting on our laurels and know that there is still a lot of work to do but there is a solid commitment to getting this right.

Working for the Bradford Children and Families Trust offers the opportunity to work with some great people who are passionate about delivering change in a city whose culture offers as much diversity as it’s geography. We cannot do this alone and have strong, collaborative working relationships with our partners. You can make a real difference to families and children and be an active part in delivering the service Bradford families should receive.

Our workforce is unwavering in their pursuit to give the best possible services to those who need support.

We have invested in our services to ensure that we are the best we can be.

We have and continue to invest in our Early Help services so that we are reaching as many people as possible who need support to prevent things escalating into statutory services; this includes the development of a Family Help Team who offer intensive support to families.

Families are the experts in their own lives and we need to listen to what they have to say; to that end, we have also invested in our voice and participation service to support children and families to have a voice in what happens next and our aspiration is that all our development is co-produced with those who need our support in their lives.

We are striving to ensure that we are a restorative and relational organisation and have been working with Leeds Relational Practice Centre for over 12 months, they will continue to work with us for the next 12 months, working with our leaders, managers and workforce so that we all have a shared understanding of what this means for children and families.

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