Join Enfield’s Integrated Family Help Service
Enfield are looking to recruit a an advanced social work practitioner in our new integrated Family Help Teams
Advanced Social Work Practitioner Full-Time MM1 Salary Range £45,393 - £57,477
The Family Help Service is an integrated preventive service that brings together advanced social work practitioners, social work practitioners and family help practitioners, working alongside one another to offer support to children and families in need that require a range of coordinated interventions from targeted early help through to child protection. There are currently social work vacancies in the generic family help teams and the pre-birth/newborn family help team and one advanced social work practitioner vacancy in a generic family help team.
We are looking for enthusiastic, able and experienced qualified social workers registered with Social Work England. Practitioners will be required to demonstrate a good understanding of the diverse needs of children and show experience of being involved in applying a strength-based approach to assessing, planning and reviewing processes to support families or individual children to empower and affect change.
The social work practitioners will have a varied caseload, offering support to empower parents and carers to build on the family’s strengths preventing family breakdown and improving outcomes for children and families. The advanced social work practitioner will carry a smaller caseload and be responsible for line managing one case holding family help practitioner.
This is a great opportunity to join an excellent service that works together with families to achieve positive outcomes for children and young people. We are in an exciting period of transformation with our new integrated family help teams having recently gone live. The Family help Teams will be supported by a developing, strong MACPT (multi-agency child protection team) that will be going live towards the end of the year.
Our leadership culture is grounded in openness, learning and shared responsibility, with a commitment to supporting staff with their wellbeing, alongside professional development and achieving best practice. You will be joining a service that has high standards, values professional curiosity, collective accountability and innovation, creating the conditions for everyone to do their best work to achieve positive outcomes for children and families.
For further information please contact:
Anne Stoker Director of Transformation at [email protected].
Closing date for applications is Friday 19th June 2026 with interviews expected the week of 29th June. If you have any difficulties accessing this information, please contact Debola Olufon at debola[email protected].
