Qualified Social Worker | Family Support Team | Thurrock

Social Worker needed for Family Support Team in Thurrock, paying £32 ph!

• Location: Thurrock
• Pay: £32 per hour
• Hours: Full-Time/Temporary Contract

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Social Worker to join Family Support Team 3 within Thurrock’s frontline services. This role sits across the Child and Family Assessment Service and Family Support Team.

This is a dynamic frontline position requiring confident practitioners who can build strong, effective relationships with children and families during initial statutory involvement, while managing complex and long-term child protection work.

• Complete Child and Family Assessments within statutory timescales
• Understand and apply thresholds, risk analysis, and strengths-based practice

Maintain clear, accurate, and timely case recordings Manage complex caseloads including:

Initiate and progress Public Law Outline (PLO) processes Undertake a wide range of assessments, including:

• Provide evidence-based analysis of significant harm to inform court decisions
• Lead Section 47 child protection enquiries
• Prepare high-quality reports for Child Protection Conferences Chair Core Groups and Child in Need meetings
• Work collaboratively with multi-agency partners to safeguard children

Working with Tripod Partners offers you a number of benefits including:

• Your own dedicated specialist consultant
• Access to the widest variety of social work jobs across 150 authorities and private organisations throughout the UK
• Prompt and reliable payroll
• Free DBS and compliance service
• £500 referral fee

For more information, please contact Dylan at Tripod Partners on or send your CV to