Social Work Assistant

As a Social Work Assistant, you’ll thrive on working as part of a team to support children and families. This is an opportunity to undertake valuable and varied work with experienced and dedicated colleagues. You will work as part of a multi‑agency team supporting children to live within their family and friends network.

Leeds City Council is one of the largest employers in the region with over 14,000 employees. We seek to recruit and develop talented individuals who embody our council values and ambitions.

As a Social Work Assistant, you will bring to the role:

• Able to work with service users and carers who have a diverse range of needs and presenting behaviours
• Able to work as part of a team and with professionals from other agencies, in the delivery of services
• Able to pass information effectively, accurately, and concisely between service users, carers, colleagues, and other agencies
• Able to produce good quality records and reports
• Basic understanding of issues of child development including adolescence and transition to adulthood

As our next Social Work Assistant, you’ll support the supervising social workers by undertaking valuable and varied work to ensure children’s needs are met. The work will include providing guidance to kinship families. You will have the opportunity to help kinship carers develop their skills through our training programme. You will also learn about all aspects of kinship care and how families can be supported to provide homes for children who cannot live with their parents.

The role is integral to our Kinship Team. The Kinship Team provides support to kinship carers so they can provide good care and meet fostering regulations. The team provides support through one‑to‑one time with kinship carers, helping them to access resources and navigate services. The team plays a big part in developing support services for kinship carers so they can provide good care for vulnerable children.

We take pride in offering the best employee experience, with benefits including:

• a competitive salary and annual leave entitlement plus statutory holidays
• membership of the West Yorkshire Pension Fund with generous employer contributions
• flexible and hybrid working arrangements subject to service requirements
• a clear career pathway and continuing professional development opportunities
• a range of staff benefits to help you boost your wellbeing and make your money go further

Please complete the online application form.

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If you have any queries or would like an informal chat about the role please contact Natalie Mannsuer (Team Manager) Call  or N

A Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check against the Children’s or Adults’ barred list as applicable will be carried out on preferred candidates. Read our recruitment of ex-offenders policy.

We welcome applications from everyone and actively seek a diverse range of applicants from all backgrounds and cultures. We particularly encourage applications from, but not limited to, women, carers, veterans as well as LGBT+, ethnically diverse, disabled and care experienced people.

This role is based in the UK. Home Office guidance states that candidates must evidence their right to work in the UK prior to commencing employment, either as a UK or Irish citizen, under the EU Settlement scheme or having secured any other relevant work visa.

If you do not have the right to work in the UK, you must consider your own eligibility for sponsorship for a particular role through the Skilled Worker visa route before applying. To be eligible for sponsorship you’ll usually need to be paid the standard salary rate of at least £41,700 per year or meet one of the other eligibility criteria.

Ensure you are eligible before applying.

To take responsibility for assessing needs and providing services to less vulnerable service users and to assist staff in assessing need and providing services in more complex cases.

Variable working arrangements, including evening…