Location
London Borough of Newham

Hours
Full Time

Salary
£41,442 - £44,331 per annum plus £5,000 Market Supplement

About the Role
Join us and help build a fairer Newham. We are a vibrant, dynamic, culturally rich London Borough with a young population and limitless potential. Our Children in Care team is recruiting a Life Story Social Worker—a specialist role focused on helping children and young people understand their journey into care, their background, and their experiences. This role supports the family-led, relational values central to our practice and continues the evolution of our Circles of Support model. You will undertake direct life story work with children and young people, create life story books and “Later in Life” letters, use therapeutic techniques to address trauma and loss, collaborate with social workers, carers, birth families and professionals, support and mentor colleagues in life story work, and ensure children’s voices and lived experiences are captured and represented. We value well-being and offer a remote working option when not visiting families, a modern office space, flexible working policy, and clinical support to help you do your best work.

Experience
Qualified, registered social worker with post-ASYE experience in long-term work with children and families. Experience in therapeutic life story work is essential.

About you
Passionate about life story work and relationship-based practice. Strong communication skills. Committed to anti-discriminatory practice and cultural competence. Conscientious, considerate, empathetic, and committed to working relationally with children and young people. Genuine interest in systemic thinking to inform relationship building. Shares values of tackling disproportionality and building a fairer Newham.

Qualifications
Registered social worker status required. Post-ASYE experience preferred.