Your social work career in Barnet Family Services

In Barnet we don’t expect you to be able to support our children and families effectively without us supporting you. This is a place where you’re given time and support to develop yourself and your practice because our approach is different.

Putting children at the centre of all we do means growing and developing you is, also, at the centre of what we do.

We want you to be the best you can be and aim to achieve this by offering you our excellent and highly regarded workforce development programme: Learning in Context.

Learning and development

Our Learning in Context approach provides our workforce with accessible, relatable, and applicable learning that is well timed, tailored and targeted, with live and action learning opportunities through workshops, coaching, mentoring, and group supervision. This approach focuses on a bespoke way of learning that is effective in bringing theory to life in practice and connecting staff to the resilience-based practice model. 

Our approach focuses on the development of all staff members and practitioners in Barnet in a way that is relevant to their roles and functions, i.e., Business Support, Performance Services, Financial Services, Clinical, Early Help and Youth Offending Services, alongside, our social work service. 

Our resilience-based practice model aims to create opportunities for positive change by building on existing strengths and aspirations, keeping children at the centre of all we do, tackling inequalities and involving children, young people, families, and local communities in the development of our services. We will do this by working in collaboration with key stakeholders, co-production with children, young people and families and ensuring our services are providing the right support at the right time and in the right places.

Career opportunities in Barnet

To develop a resilient workforce, we want to recruit a diverse, committed and professional workforce. Reflective of the diverse communities we work with and providing an environment in which they will want to contribute and remain in Barnet.

In Family Services we are committed to supporting our workforce. We believe that following a career path is important and that it is our responsibility to provide a clear career pathway to all of our employees.

We aim to make training and development meaningful and to reflect what you need at every stage of your career progression.

We also aim to ensure all staff have a clear understanding of the various career options and support available for career development, in line with service needs.

Support from Practice Managers

We ensure that you are well supported to deliver purposeful social work, providing you with regular high-quality support from skilled practice managers enabling you to make a positive difference with our families and communities.

Whether you are a newly qualified worker or a seasoned practitioner we offer reflexive and meaningful individual and group supervision opportunities to develop your expertise and confidence.

As you become more experienced, we can provide you with challenging opportunities in a supportive environment.

Case loads

It is important that social workers are resilient and have manageable caseloads and support to complete their work and undertake effective interventions.

We know how important it is for our staff to achieve a good work-life balance and we are determined to ensure that our systems support and enable focus on practice.