Experienced Social Worker| Family Safeguarding Team

Experienced Social Worker – Family Safeguarding Team - Swindon

£42 per hour + £100 weekly allowance

• Location: Swindon
• Directorate: Children & Families – Family Safeguarding Service
• Rate: £42 per hour
• Contract: Temporary
• Working Pattern: 3 days per week office-based
• Required: Minimum 3 years post-qualifying experience

Swindon is recruiting Experienced Social Workers to join its Family Safeguarding Service. You will work within a supportive POD structure, consisting of 5 Social Workers and 1 Team Manager, designed to enhance collaboration, oversight, and professional support.

This is a fast‑paced and rewarding role where you will work with children and families to deliver high‑quality safeguarding interventions, ensuring positive and lasting outcomes.

• Undertake comprehensive assessments, including parenting assessments, to inform outcome‑focused care planning.
• Develop and implement effective care plans for children and their families.
• Manage and progress care proceedings (both private and public law) within court timescales.
• Work towards achieving permanency for children, including adoption where appropriate.
• Assess and respond to complex risks, ensuring safeguarding is always prioritised.
• Maintain high‑quality case recordings, evidencing clear analysis of interventions and outcomes.

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

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