Children's social work opportunities

We have a range of social work opportunities in either The Localities Service or the Looked After Children and Permanency Service.

The Localities service includes:

• Brent's Family Front Door (BFFD) which includes a Multi-agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) Team.
• Five short term teams focused on completing assessments and conducting, short, focused interventions
• Ten Long Term Teams
• A 0-25 Children with Disability Team
• No Recourse to Public Funds and Intentionally Homeless Team.

We have a Looked After Children and Permanency Service - the service includes:

• Six Children in Care Teams,
• Three Care Leavers Teams,
• Fostering Assessment and Support Team
• Kinship and Private Fostering Team

Working at Brent

Overall Brent Children & Young people’s Services is a wonderful place to work, with the services we provide to our children and families having been judged ‘Good’ across all area in our most recent Ofsted inspection. Ofsted's 2023 report highlights how much our staff are valued in Brent.

Recruitment Initiatives we implement to grow our own social work talent

• Social Work Apprenticeship Scheme
• Step-up To Social Work
• ASYE programme for Newly Qualified Social Workers
• International Social Workers Programme

Career Progression and Training

Our Social Work progression framework, enables you to advance through to Team Manager/ IRO/ Child Protection Officer positions when you are ready.

We are committed to:

• Retaining the best staff and providing you with the support and opportunities to achieve your potential and career goals.
• Diverse opportunities to grow your social work skills and career, including an opportunity to focus on developing specialisms and skills, and accessing to our dynamic training and learning offer.
• Leadership development opportunities with commissioned external programmes.
• Access to resources, practice tools and training via Community Care Inform, and Research in Practice subscriptions which are available to all staff.
• Consistency in appraisals, and sharing of relevant development opportunities to ensure equality and fairness of opportunities.

Our offer to you

Find more information on the great rewards packages, benefits and support you can enjoy while working for Brent.