Social Worker; Parenting Capacity Assessment

Overview

Contract

Terms:

Grade PO4;
Salary £49,056 – £53,194 per annum;
Contract Type:
Full Time, Permanent (36 hours per week);
Closing Date:
Sunday, 8 February 2026;
Interview Date: w/c 16 February 2026 (TBC).

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.

Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values:
Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a strong, dynamic and specialist team working as part of an internal resource for the conducting of all court directed and Public Law Outline parenting capacity assessments (PCA). We are on a journey of development and expansion. The Team consists of 4 social workers, 2 senior practitioners and 2 outreach workers. We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced social worker to join our PCA team.

The PCA Team conducts comprehensive assessments of children and their families to inform case planning and intervention strategies. This may involve observing parent-child interactions, conducting interviews, and gathering information from various sources.

The successful candidate will play a crucial role in supporting the team’s objectives and contributing to positive outcomes for children and families. The ideal candidate should have experience working with vulnerable children, young people, and their families, including undertaking specialist Parent Assess. They should be knowledgeable in using a psychodynamic framework to understand family dynamics and support families in reaching their potential.

The Maya Angelou Rising Roots Family Hub provides independent parenting capacity assessments, outreach support, Family Group Conferences, the Caring Dad’s parenting programme as well as supervised family time for families with children. This is an exciting opportunity to join a strong, dynamic and specialist team working as part of an internal resource for the conducting of all court directed and Public Law Outline parenting capacity assessments (PCA).

We are on a journey of development and expansion. The Team consists of 4 social workers, 2 senior practitioners and 2 outreach workers.

The successful candidate will have a degree in Social Work and a minimum of 3 years post qualifying work experience. We require individuals with extensive knowledge around safeguarding thresholds, good knowledge of child protection, safeguarding procedures, and the ability to help to continue to drive forward improvements.

You will bring strong analytical and communication skills, completing high quality parenting capacity assessments. You have proven experience with adults or children and young people across linguistically and culturally diverse communities, including direct work with disabled children and young people at times of change and loss, demonstrating cultural competence and rigorous safeguarding practice.

At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community.

Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement up to 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and well-being support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.

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