CSW Social Worker (Pledge)


Company:	Wax Recruitment Ltd
Salary:	from £27.56 an hour
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Southwark, SE15 2HP
Working pattern:	Hybrid - 2 days remote
Job type:	Contract
Posting date:	14 Sept 2026
Closing date:	14 Oct 2026

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Summary

Job title: CSW Social Worker (Pledge)

Job Category: Social Care Qualified

Location: 132 Queens Road (QR1), Southwark, Surrey, SE152HP, Southwark Council

Hours per week 36

Salary: £27.56 per hour

2 days remote, 3 days in the office.

Work within an Assessment & Intervention team to undertake S17 Child and Family Assessments, and also undertake S47 enquiries.

To work in a team of 5 social workers, and 1 team manager, to undertake the full functions of the A&I Service that includes a duty allocation, undertake visits to children and families, undertake timely and proportionate assessments.

Full Job Description is accounted below.

To provide a comprehensive, effective, integrated, systemically-informed social work service, within Southwark’s practice framework. To deliver excellent social work practice, assessing complex need, and planning and working purposefully with families. To support networks and other professionals to manage risk, safeguard children and promote positive outcomes. To provide a social work service which is both relationship based and which responds in a timely manner within statutory guidelines, working collaboratively with the team.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES Responsibilities (in line with Knowledge and Skills Statements for Children’s Social Workers)

1. Work directly with children, young people and families to provide focused and purposeful systemically-informed social work within Southwark’s practice framework, with explicit aims and objectives about desired outcomes which are proportionate to each child’s identified risk and need.

2. Establish rapport, build and maintain professional, respectful, and honest relationships with children, young people their families, and professional networks, to develop trust and assist in safeguarding children, resolving conflict and promoting positive and timely outcomes.

3. Deliver social work practice which is informed by statutory guidance, best evidence, and research knowledge.

Communication

4. Present complex information in writing and in person in a range of settings, including professional input at meetings such as child protection conferences, Looked After Child reviews, fostering or adoption panels, youth justice panels, and representing the Council at Court.

5. Maintain case records and management information on appropriate systems, ensuring that case files are organised and up to date.

6. Manage and organise complex information, producing comprehensive, analytic, high quality reports which evaluate the most appropriate interventions and make cogent arguments based on evidence.

Child development

7. Observe and talk with children and young people in their various environments to help understand their physical and emotional worlds and patterns of development, taking account of typical development over time, including the quality of child and parent/carer interaction. Adult mental ill health, substance misuse, domestic abuse, physical ill health and disability

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