Social Work Assistant

Job description

Contract Terms

Contract Type: Full -Time, Permanent
Salary: SC6 £35,520 – £36,585 per annum
Interview: w/c 15th December 2025
Closing Date: Sunday 7th December 2025

About Haringey

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.

About the role

As a social work assistant within the Haringey Adolescent Resource Team (HART), you will be part of a specialist team working directly with children, young people and their families and with the case holding team and social worker. You will be expected to deliver solution-focused direct intervention and life story work to children and young people, who have been earmarked to transition from residential care to living with foster carers. You will be expected to deliver solution-focused direct intervention and life story work to children and young people whose care plans are to leave Local Authority care to return to their parents’ and families’ care.

You will be based in the (HART), which is made up of a senior social worker and this team sits alongside the Children’s Placement Team. A team manager oversees both teams.  Haringey Adolescent Resource Team (HART) is a specialist team working as part of the internal resource, which delivers solution-focused interventions to support children and young people making the transition from residential care to living with foster carers/parents or those making the transition from Local Authority’s care to return to their parents’ or family members’ care.

About you

You will need to have experience of working directly with children, young people, and families and carers. You will need to be able to apply a holistic and therapeutic approach when undertaking direct work with children and young people, who have experienced trauma and loss. You will need to be able to meet the timescales set for the intervention; always making sure that children and young people’s voices are heard and recorded consistently. You will need to be able to support various social work teams in delivering a high-quality social work service to children and families, by working in partnership with other statutory and third sector organisations and participate in team and other service meetings and activities, as appropriate. You will need to have excellent recording skills and be able to follow manager’s directions on progressing children and young people’s transitions as per their care plans. You will need to have working knowledge and understanding of children looked after and accompanying children’s legislation. You will need to have the ability to work and build strong working relationships with children, young people, care givers and families and put the child’s welfare at the heart of your practice.

Working for Haringey

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 wellbeing 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.

Please note: we reserve the right to end this advert before the noted deadline if we receive sufficient applications. If you wish to apply for this role please ensure that you do so as soon as possible.

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