Social Worker LBHF

Job Details

Salary range: £42,912 - £50,175 per annum

Work location: 145 King Street, Hammersmith, London W6 9XY

Hours per week: 36.00

Contract type: Permanent

Vetting requirements: Enhanced DBS Check

Closing date: 2 March 2026

Contact details for Informal discussion: Gerne Pieterse, Workforce and Practice Manager via email on

The London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham is seeking a dedicated and experienced Qualified Social Worker to join our Children Looked After Team. The team works with our cared for children up to the age of 16 years and are responsible for court work and permanency planning for those children needing care outside of their extended family. Hammersmith and Fulham Children’s Services, rated Outstanding by Ofsted in our most recent inspection, never stops moving forward.

Our ambition is to focus even more on increasing the quality of our practice and the work with children, young people and families to sustain positive change. As a service, we promote a highly supportive culture that allows you to do what you do best, encompassing individual mentoring, having manageable workloads and clear developmental opportunities. You will play a vital role in supporting children and young people in care, ensuring their voices are heard and their needs are met through high-quality, child-centred social work practice.

• Manage a caseload of looked after children, ensuring timely assessments, care planning, and reviews.
• Work collaboratively with foster carers, families, schools, and other professionals.
• Prepare reports for court and attend proceedings as required.
• Promote permanency planning and support transitions to independence.
• Ensure all statutory responsibilities are met in line with legislation and best practice.

• Qualified Social Worker (Degree/DipSW/CQSW) and registered with Social Work England.
• Experience working with looked after children or within children's services.
• Strong understanding of relevant legislation, including the Children Act 1989.
• Excellent communication, assessment, and report-writing skills.
• Commitment to anti-discriminatory practice and improving outcomes for children.

• High quality regular reflective supervision
• Training opportunities, including training in systemic practice
• Clinical family therapist allocated to each service
• Hybrid working and flexible working options
• 2 wellbeing days a month in addition to generous annual leave
• Very competitive pay rates with well established social work career progression scheme

Our mission is to be the best council. To do this we need the best people to help build our vision. If you are a social worker committed to relational practice and improving lives, looking to develop your career in a fast-paced, professional environment whilst making a difference, we would be delighted to hear from you.

Please refer to the Role Profile for more information.

• Social Work England (SWE)

• We are fair – We treat everyone with compassion, dignity and fairness. We value the views and opinion of others, and promote benefits and opportunities for all.
• We are caring – We care about our borough and doing things well. We focus on standards and continuous improvement; learning from our mistakes and celebrating success.
• We are collaborators – We work together for a better society. We work with our residents, businesses, schools, third sector and others for better outcomes for everyone.
• We are driven – We will only settle for the very best. We seek to continually improve and put our residents, customers and businesses at the heart of everything we do.

At H&F you will have access to a comprehensive total reward package as well as joining a flexible working employer and as such all staff can request flexible working  to find out more.

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