Careers in children's social work

Brent Children’s Services are good with outstanding features (OFSTED 2018). We are a ‘Signs of Safety’ borough and were part of the recent DfE Innovation Programme, embedding Signs of Safety across services. Group supervision is creating a buzz, with social workers developing creativity, sharing risk and learning from each other.

The borough hosts Wembley Stadium - just a stone’s throw from the office. Working in a state of the art building surrounded by new restaurants, coffee shops and facilities, you’ll definitely enjoy your surroundings.  Brent Children and Young People Services boasts a bright and buzzy atmosphere where your colleagues are friendly, supportive and get stuck in. Brent is the 2020 London Borough of Culture(s) where people are proud of their culture and background – and we are proud of our diverse workforce. If you love learning, Brent is the place to further your practice and career.

Services are responding well to the impact of Covid-19 through our excellent IT and the provision of office equipment for all social workers working from home.

Rewards and benefits

We have a great rewards packages for social workers up to senior team managers. We provide a welcome and retention payment when you join, which includes: 

• Key worker housing in Wembley for permanent social workers
• Salary up to £42,855
• £5,000 golden hello and relocation packages (for hard to recruit to roles)
• £1,200 annual retention payment for all social work qualified staff. 
  
  

You will also receive:

• A commitment to manageable caseloads across all teams.
• The Social Work progression framework, enabling you to move to senior social worker and beyond when you’re ready. We are committed to retaining the best staff and providing you with the support and opportunities to achieve that.
• Signs of safety informed group and 1-2-1 supervision.
• A small team model, supported by practice consultants with training in systemic and reflective practice.
• A culture of highly effective flexible working, supported with some of the best IT in local government.
• A very generous Local Government Pension Scheme.
• A host of other rewards and benefits such as reduced cost gym membership, London Designer Outlet privilege card, Wembley Boxpark privilege card plus many more.
  

We are very proud of our reputation for academic excellence and also the superb pastoral care our students receive along with the support we provide for the less academically able.  We now want your help to enable us to go beyond outstanding and achieve ‘excellence for all’.

Our way of working

The Brent Practice Framework captures the values, beliefs and principles that shape our work with children, families and each other and describes the systemic approaches we use to create change with children and families.