Social Worker Adolescent Social Work Pod
- New Brighton, United Kingdom
Posted 5 days ago
About the role
Salary
£39,862 - £42,839 (pay award pending)
Contractual hours
37
Basis
Fixed Hours
Package
We are pleased to offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your wellbeing. You can read about them on our Why work for us pages.
Job category/type
Social Work - Children
Date posted
01/09/2026
Job reference
REQ0001322
We are looking for a committed Social Worker to join our well established Adolescent Social Work Pod within our innovative Multi-Agency Adolescent Service.
Contract type: This role is permanent
Interviews to be held: 11th September (tbc)
There is full information about the role below and attached but, if you would like an informal discussion, please contact Emily Batchelor on 07833483256 or emily.batchelor@brighton-hove.gov.uk
About the Role
This is an exciting opportunity to work alongside skilled professionals who are committed to supporting teenagers through a relational, anti-racist and LGBTQ+ inclusive approach. We are seeking someone who is dedicated to championing the voices of children and who is motivated by the opportunity to strengthen practice with adolescents experiencing extra-familial harm.
Our Adolescent Social Work Pod is a team of case responsible social workers who work with children who are facing complex challenges, including all forms of extra-familial harm. Many of the children we support are at risk of entering care or the criminal justice system. We take an assertive, creative, relationship-based approach to our interventions through strong multi-agency collaboration which is informed by Contextual Safeguarding.
As a Social Worker within the Adolescent Pod, you will play a pivotal role in building meaningful relationships with children, their families, and partner agencies. Grounded in relationship-based practice, you will work alongside adolescents facing complex challenges, ensuring their voice, strengths, and experiences shape all aspects of assessment, planning, and intervention.
You will manage a caseload, delivering high-quality statutory social work that promotes safety, stability, wellbeing, and positive outcomes. Through purposeful relationship-building, you will work with multi-agency partners to support children to increase safety in the community, strengthen protective factors, and achieve lasting change.
Key Responsibilities
- Be case responsible social worker for children experiencing extra-familial harm, delivering all statutory social work interventions and responsibilities.
- Assertively building trusting relationships with children and families to enable engagement and participation.
- Skills in engaging parents and carers of children experiencing extra-familial harm
- Deliver direct work that addresses extra-familial harm, and other adolescent needs.
- Work collaboratively with families and multi-agency partners to coordinate effective support and intervention.
- Apply relationship-based and trauma-informed approaches to understand behaviour and support positive change.
- Contribute to and lead multi-agency meetings, ensuring plans remain focused on achievable outcomes.
- Maintain accurate and timely case recording in line with statutory and organisational standards.
- Promote equality, diversity, inclusion, and anti-discriminatory practice in all aspects of work.
This role is suited to a skilled and motivated social worker who is passionate about adolescent practice, and committed to using relationships as the primary tool for achieving positive and sustainable change
Encouraging a diverse workforce
Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.
Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and the work we are doing to encourage a diverse workforce (brighton-hove.gov.uk).
Why work for us?
As a council, we want to:
- be connected
- be confident
- be innovative and creative
- be diverse and inclusive
- be healthy and psychologically safe
How to apply
Please read our Apply for a job at the council pages carefully. They give you all the guidance you need to complete your application as well as information on what will happen after you’ve submitted your application and at interview.
As part of your application, you will need to provide your education and career history and answer some application/shortlisting questions. Your answers to the application/shortlisting questions are the most important part of your application as they will be used in the shortlisting process to assess whether you meet the essential requirements for the role that are set out in the person specification and to decide whether you should be offered an interview. Before you start your application, please read our Shortlisting questions guidance (brighton-hove.gov.uk) as this gives important advice which will increase your chance of success in the shortlisting process.
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We are keen to hear how your experience and skills align to our values and the skills and experience needed to perform well in our roles with clear real examples from you. To support you in this, we have guidance on using the STAR model which can help you ensure you are telling us your whole story. We also provide clarity on the skills we are looking for in our adverts and in the job description/person specification attached to each job advert.
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Additional information
Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.
Please note that this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, and is subject to a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Check.
We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining. Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team and travel to and from your contractual location would be at your own expense.
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