138 children 39 s social worker jobs found in Wigan

Our client Wigan Council is looking for a Children's Social Worker to join their Family Safeguarding Team. Job description: We are seeking a dedicated Children's Social Worker to support children, young people, and families through long term planning, and safeguarding interventions. This hybrid role offers a flexible mix of working from home and from the office, balancing direct work, multi‑agency collaboration, and high‑quality case management. You will play a key role in promoting positive outcomes and ensuring the safety and wellbeing of children holding a mixture of CIN, CP and CLA cases within the court arena. Benefits of working with Remedy A personal one-one service from your highly experienced dedicated consultant. Top tier supplier across London giving us first access to jobs Referral bonus - up to £250* per person placed. Double payrolls each week. *Terms & Conditions apply You will be required to fully register with Remedy for all locum positions. Remedy...

Our client Wigan council is looking for a Children's Social Worker to join their Safeguarding team. Childrens social worker for family safeguarding team, holding CP, PLO and court work. Hybrid role, 2 days per week in the office Benefits of working with Remedy A personal one-one service from your highly experienced dedicated consultant. Top tier supplier across London giving us first access to jobs Referral bonus - up to £250* per person placed. Double payrolls each week. *Terms & Conditions apply You will be required to fully register with Remedy for all locum positions. Remedy Social Care is a APSCo Standard agency and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the vulnerable. Successful applicants will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the DBS. Our objective is to be an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from everyone with suitable skills and ability regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national...

Our client Wigan Council is looking for a Children's Social Worker to join their Locality & Duty Team. The Duty service in Wigan consists of 5 duty teams and a Duty Academy, you will be on Duty one week in five and have the support of a Team Manager, Advanced Practitioner and a Senior Social worker. Families who we work with in Duty require our expert assessment and intervention skills. The nature of the work within the Duty Service can be described as fast paced, you will work on one of the 5 main Duty teams, given our 5 week Duty cycle this means that you will only be going on Duty 1 in every 5 weeks. The Duty teams in Wigan hold a varying complexity of cases, in our Duty service, case transfer points include the Initial Child Protection Case Conference, the first CLA review, the first PLO meeting, the 3rd CIN meeting. The Duty service do not hold cases long term and following your assessment and intervention period the outcome of this will determine the best team for the...

Children's Social Worker - CP & Court Work (Hybrid, Wigan) Please note that only Social Work England Registered Social Workers with Right to Work in the UK will be considered for this role, please do not apply if you are not a SWE Registered Social Worker who has the Right to Work in the UK. Location: Central Wigan Team: Central Wigan Locality - Child Protection & Court Team Working Pattern: Hybrid (predominantly remote) We are seeking an experienced and committed Children's Social Worker to join a busy and well‑established Child Protection and Court team in Wigan. This role focuses on referral and assessment, child protection, and care proceedings, supporting children, young people and families through robust safeguarding and long‑term planning. This is a supportive, high‑performing team led by an experienced Team Manager, with a Deputy Team Manager, Senior Practitioner, five Social Workers, a Family Support Worker, and dedicated domestic abuse specialists. Despite...

Our client Trafford council is looking for a Children's Social Worker to join their Cared for service Team. The service manages the casework where a child or young person has a permanent care plan, ensuring that their placement needs are met with as little disruption as possible and that each child or young person has support and time to understand their journey and can heal from the impact of past experiences on their lives. We aim to sustain long-term relationships, providing the care and support essential to giving a sense of belonging and stability to children coming out of care proceedings, and pulling partners around children and carers to provide a network of support and guidance. Benefits of working with Remedy A personal one-one service from your highly experienced dedicated consultant. Top tier supplier across London giving us first access to jobs Referral bonus - up to £250* per person placed. Double payrolls each week. *Terms & Conditions apply You will be...

Our client Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council is looking for a Children's Social Worker to join their Fostering Duty Team. Duty Regulation 24 and Viability assessor Job description: We are embarking on an ambitious and inspiring journey to remodel and strengthen our fostering service - and we're looking for experienced, dynamic Social Workers who are ready to make a real impact. This is a unique opportunity to be at the heart of positive change, shaping the way we support children and families across our community. As part of our dedicated fostering duty function, you will play a leading role in completing Regulation 24 assessments, viabilities, and kinship checks, ensuring these are completed swiftly, safely, and with confidence. We want to take the lead in driving high standards, reducing delays, and ensuring that every child has the opportunity to remain safely within their family network wherever possible. We want to be responsive, forward thinking and truly centred...

Our client Trafford Council is looking for a Children's Social Worker to join their Support & protection team. (locality based) We have developed our Support and Protect Service to support children and families who need longer term support and achieving permanence this might be through Child Protection Planning or if required in the Court arena. We are looking for social workers who are passionate about making a difference for children and can work creatively to ensure the best outcomes and support children to stay within the family wherever it is safe to do so. We have already worked closely with our multi agency partners and have started to further build on this in line with the current reforms. Our teams work well together to ensure the safety of children and are supported to do this by experienced and passionate team managers. You will be working in a busy and friendly team and will work predominantly with children in need, child protection, care proceedings and...

Our client Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council is looking for a Children's Social Worker to join their Family Help (Duty & Assessment) Team. Job description: We are looking for Family Help Lead Practitioners - Social Work to support children, young people and their families in our newly formed Family Help Service. You will provide our families with high quality support and respond to their individual needs as required. You will support families to develop solutions to their needs and provide high levels of intervention to keep children and young people with their families. You will support children and young people who are identified as children in need and ensure that appropriate plans are in place to meet families' individual needs effectively enabling families to make positive and sustained changes. Key responsibilities: As an Employee of Tameside Council all roles are expected to work in a way that ensures vulnerable children and adults are safeguarded and report...

Our client Trafford council is looking for a Children's Social Worker to join their Support & Protection team. Here in Trafford Children's Services our vision is that our teams are offering the right help at the right time, and that at all levels our interventions make life better for children and families. We are ambitious for our children and for our practitioners - and our core value is 'would this be good enough for my child'? We want to have practitioners and managers who are confident and brave in their practice and are supported by strong leaders at all levels. As a relatively small local authority, we pride ourselves on our friendly teams, manageable caseloads, creative approach and colleagues who support each other. We were pleased to see this recognised in the Ofsted report that followed our ILACS inspection in late 2022, which highlighted that "social workers in Trafford are overwhelmingly positive about both the local authority and the support they receive." In...

Our client Bolton council is looking for a Children's Social Worker to join their Safeguarding team. Social Worker with at least 3 years experience required for Safeguarding Childrens team. Must have knowledge of * Child Protection and CIN * Court * Reports * Working within statutory deadlines, etc within a Safeguarding Team Flexible working in place- balance between working from home/office and statutory visits to meet the needs of the service. Must be able to travel to Bolton be office based at short notice if demands require. Candidates need to be able to undertake duty and home visits. Caseload will be across Bolton with office base at Castle Hill. Depending on experience successful candidates will be allocated across the SG teams and service For full duties see the attached JD/PS Free on-site parking 37 hours per week - full-time post References will be requested for any candidates offered an interview and DBS requested for any candidate offered a post Benefits of working...

Our client Bolton council is looking for a Children's Social Worker to join their Referral and Assessment team. Based in the Assessment Team in Castle Hill working across the borough. Experience of working in referral and assessment team and familiar with statutory processes *Undertaking home visits to gather information to establish any safeguarding concern- initial child /family needs assessments *s47's enquiries- including co-ordination of statutory meetings and closing s47 if no further action/concern *Provide short term interventions -liaising and passing case assessment/referrals to other teams when progressed *Work within the Courts, taking statutory action when necessary to protect a child, including Emergency Protection Order applications and initiation of Care Proceedings *Duty rota cover - front line social work Benefits of working with Remedy A personal one-one service from your highly experienced dedicated consultant. Top tier supplier across London giving us...

Our client Bury council is looking for a Children's Social Worker to join their Children with Disabilities Team. This is for a social worker in CWD, must have experience in CWD due to the complexities of the case load and the complexities of the needs of the children and families. Court experience is also required, particularly around DOLS and MCA Benefits of working with Remedy A personal one-one service from your highly experienced dedicated consultant. Top tier supplier across London giving us first access to jobs Referral bonus - up to £250* per person placed. Double payrolls each week. *Terms & Conditions apply You will be required to fully register with Remedy for all locum positions. Remedy Social Care is a APSCo Standard agency and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the vulnerable. Successful applicants will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the DBS. Our objective is to be an equal opportunities employer and we welcome...

Our client Salford City Council is looking for a Children's Social Worker to join their Children with Disabilities Team. Key Responsibilities: Assess the needs of children with disabilities and their families Develop, implement, and review care and support plans Safeguard children and ensure their welfare is protected Work closely with multi-agency partners (health, education, and support services) Support families with short breaks, direct payments, and specialist services Manage a caseload, including children in need, child protection, and looked-after children Maintain accurate records and complete reports for meetings or court when required Benefits of working with Remedy A personal one-one service from your highly experienced dedicated consultant. Top tier supplier across London giving us first access to jobs Referral bonus - up to £250* per person placed. Double payrolls each week. *Terms & Conditions apply You will be required to fully register with Remedy for...

Our client Salford city council is looking for a Children's Social Worker to join their Child protection & Children in need team. Benefits of working with Remedy A personal one-one service from your highly experienced dedicated consultant. Top tier supplier across London giving us first access to jobs Referral bonus - up to £250* per person placed. Double payrolls each week. *Terms & Conditions apply You will be required to fully register with Remedy for all locum positions. Remedy Social Care is a APSCo Standard agency and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the vulnerable. Successful applicants will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the DBS. Our objective is to be an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from everyone with suitable skills and ability regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, gender, disability, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief. All applications will be...

Our client Manchester City Council is looking for a Children's Social Worker to join their North Court & Locality team. Experience of child protection, child in need plan, managing care proceedings, court proceedings , parenting assessments, Section 37 and 7 reports. Experience of developing students or less qualified workers. Ability to work within a Team. Motivation to work in an Outstanding authority. Benefits of working with Remedy A personal one-one service from your highly experienced dedicated consultant. Top tier supplier across London giving us first access to jobs Referral bonus - up to £250* per person placed. Double payrolls each week. *Terms & Conditions apply You will be required to fully register with Remedy for all locum positions. Remedy Social Care is a APSCo Standard agency and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the vulnerable. Successful applicants will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the DBS. Our...

Our client Rochdale Borough Council is looking for a Children's Social Worker to join their Children with Disabilities team. Key Responsibilities: Assess the needs of children with disabilities and their families Develop and review care and support plans Work with schools, health professionals, and other agencies Safeguard children from harm and promote their welfare Provide advice, guidance, and emotional support to families Manage a caseload and keep accurate records Attend meetings, reviews, and court proceedings when requiredBenefits of working with Remedy A personal one-one service from your highly experienced dedicated consultant. Top tier supplier across London giving us first access to jobs Referral bonus - up to £250* per person placed. Double payrolls each week. *Terms & Conditions apply You will be required to fully register with Remedy for all locum positions. Remedy Social Care is a APSCo Standard agency and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the...

Our client Rochdale Borough Council is looking for a Children's Social Worker to join their Family Support and Protection team. Rochdale Family Support and Protection Service need enthusiastic and committed Social Workers to come with us on a really exciting journey to support our transition into a new way of working. Rochdale is currently at the very start of an exciting transition into the family safeguarding model. To support us in this transition we need to establish multi-disciplinary teams where specialist practitioners are co-located with social workers under a unified management structure. This enables a multi-disciplinary whole family response through direct assessment. This is a really exciting time for Rochdale and we need Social Workers to support us in implementing this model. In return for your commitment we can offer you the following: A manageable caseload of between 20 and 23 children. As the service develops and we get more workers, we aim to get caseloads to...

Our client Oldham council is looking for a Children's Social Worker to join their Duty & Advice team. Job description: You will work as part of a co-located multi-agency team, which includes representatives from Greater Manchester Police, Health, Community Safety, Adult Social Care, IDVA and the Prevention Hub, this co-location enables more effective communication between partner agencies. As a Duty and Advice social worker you will be required to respond to contacts made to the MASH in a timely way to identify and secure the most appropriate service to support and safeguard children and families. As a Duty and Advice social worker you will communicate with families, partner agencies and members of the public members of the public and partner agencies to enable you to gain details and enable strong evidenced based decision making in line with our practice standards and statutory duties. You will have a good understanding of statutory social worker functions and be confident...

Our client Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council is looking for a Children's Social Worker to join their Kinship Team. Full time Kinship assessing social worker needed Immediate start Fostering / Kinship experience necessary Benefits of working with Remedy A personal one-one service from your highly experienced dedicated consultant. Top tier supplier across London giving us first access to jobs Referral bonus - up to £250* per person placed. Double payrolls each week. *Terms & Conditions apply You will be required to fully register with Remedy for all locum positions. Remedy Social Care is a APSCo Standard agency and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the vulnerable. Successful applicants will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the DBS. Our objective is to be an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from everyone with suitable skills and ability regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national...

Our client Blackpool council is looking for a Children's Social Worker to join their Assessment & Support Team. Our Assessment and Support Teams undertakes Child & Family Assessments, supports children & families via Child in Need Plans on a short-term basis and ensuring the partnership agencies offer ongoing Early Help Support. The teams also undertake S7 private family court proceedings, Section 47 child protection enquiries and supports families to prepare for Initial Child protection Conferences. At times the service commences Initial Care Proceedings to safeguard children in emergency situations and undertake joint assessments with Housing regarding young people who are homeless. You will have the opportunity to develop trusting relationships with children and their families. Using our restorative and strength based co-produced Blackpool Families Rock approach we support families to have great outcomes and prevent children's needs from escalating. You will be...