💷 Pay: £19.39 per hour
🕒 Hours: Full-time, 37 hours/week (Mon–Fri)
📅 Contract: Initial 3 months (with strong potential to extend)
🏢 Hybrid Working: This is hybrid with some opportunity working from home but majority of the role will be working directly with families and office based due to nature of work
Are you passionate about supporting children and families?
Stoke-on-Trent City Council is seeking an experienced Social Work Assistant to join their Children’s Social Care team, supporting the delivery of high-quality services to children, young people and their families.
You’ll play a vital role in helping social workers carry out assessments, implement care plans, and deliver meaningful interventions. This includes direct work with children, family support, contributing to statutory assessments, chairing Child in Need meetings, and working closely with partner agencies.
🔹 Key Responsibilities:
- Provide direct support work to children and families
- Co-ordinate and chair Child in Need (S17) meetings
- Assist in assessments, including parenting and risk assessments
- Supervise family contact sessions where required
- Contribute to reports, plans, and attend court if needed
- Engage in team meetings and case planning processes
- Ensure children’s safety, wellbeing and positive outcomes are at the centre of your work
- Experience working directly with children and families
- Knowledge of safeguarding, the Children Act, and child protection legislation
- Excellent communication, report writing and IT skills
- A Level 3 qualification in working with children, or willingness to work towards it
- A full UK driving licence or ability to travel across the city
- A flexible, reflective, and child-centred approach
If you are interested or know of anyone who may be, please contact Kat at Service Care Solutions on 01772208964 or send your CV to kat.shah@servicecare.org.uk.
Service Care Solutions also offers a £250 referral bonus! So if you know of anyone who would be perfect for this position and they are placed into work, you will receive £250 for the referral once their probationary period has been completed.
