Qualified Social Worker (Children's Asylum Team)
| Posting date: | 26 November 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £31.32 to £42.00 per hour |
| Additional salary information: | Pay Rates: £31.32 PAYE / £42.00 Umbrella |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 December 2025 |
| Location: | Horsham, West Sussex |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Neway International Ltd |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | OR18386 |
Summary
Neway International are seeking Qualified Social Workers to join our client West Sussex County Council within the Children’s Asylum Team.
Location: Chart Way, Horsham, West Sussex, RH12 1XH
Hours: 37 per week (Full time)
Start Date: 15/12/2025
Duration: 12 weeks initially
Pay Rates: £31.32 PAYE / £42.00 Umbrella
About the Client
West Sussex County Council’s Children, Young People and Learning service is dedicated to safeguarding and supporting vulnerable children. The Children’s Asylum Team provides specialist care for unaccompanied asylum-seeking and trafficked children, ensuring their welfare needs are met and that they are supported to integrate socially and access essential services.
The Role
As a Qualified Social Worker in the Children’s Asylum Team, you will manage a complex caseload of young people from diverse backgrounds who have experienced trauma and loss. You will work cross-culturally, from a trauma-informed perspective, and ensure children access education, health, legal, and voluntary sector services. The role requires close collaboration with foster carers, supported lodgings providers, and legal professionals, alongside statutory visits and care planning.
Key Responsibilities
Manage caseloads of unaccompanied asylum-seeking and trafficked children.
Work cross-culturally, using interpreters where necessary, with a trauma-informed approach.
Ensure children access essential services (education, health, legal) and additional cultural/social support.
Undertake statutory visits, including out-of-county travel.
Liaise with foster carers, supported lodgings providers, and manage placement moves/breakdowns.
Make referrals to the National Referral Mechanism and assess family members as potential carers.
Contribute to care and pathway planning, ensuring children’s needs are central.
Collaborate with multi-agency partners to deliver effective safeguarding and support.
Candidate Requirements
Qualified Social Worker with registration to practice in the UK.
Minimum of 3 years post-qualified experience in local authority children’s social care in England.
Recent frontline child protection and safeguarding experience.
Strong cross-cultural practice skills, trauma-informed approach, and experience using interpreters.
Car driver, willing to travel daily across West Sussex and beyond.
Able to provide two detailed practice-based references (DfE template).
Candidates must not have worked in a substantive role within the same region in the last three months.
This is a full-time role, with candidates expected to be available in West Sussex every day. Agency staff are welcomed as part of the service and encouraged to attend transformational and leadership events.
Location: Chart Way, Horsham, West Sussex, RH12 1XH
Hours: 37 per week (Full time)
Start Date: 15/12/2025
Duration: 12 weeks initially
Pay Rates: £31.32 PAYE / £42.00 Umbrella
About the Client
West Sussex County Council’s Children, Young People and Learning service is dedicated to safeguarding and supporting vulnerable children. The Children’s Asylum Team provides specialist care for unaccompanied asylum-seeking and trafficked children, ensuring their welfare needs are met and that they are supported to integrate socially and access essential services.
The Role
As a Qualified Social Worker in the Children’s Asylum Team, you will manage a complex caseload of young people from diverse backgrounds who have experienced trauma and loss. You will work cross-culturally, from a trauma-informed perspective, and ensure children access education, health, legal, and voluntary sector services. The role requires close collaboration with foster carers, supported lodgings providers, and legal professionals, alongside statutory visits and care planning.
Key Responsibilities
Manage caseloads of unaccompanied asylum-seeking and trafficked children.
Work cross-culturally, using interpreters where necessary, with a trauma-informed approach.
Ensure children access essential services (education, health, legal) and additional cultural/social support.
Undertake statutory visits, including out-of-county travel.
Liaise with foster carers, supported lodgings providers, and manage placement moves/breakdowns.
Make referrals to the National Referral Mechanism and assess family members as potential carers.
Contribute to care and pathway planning, ensuring children’s needs are central.
Collaborate with multi-agency partners to deliver effective safeguarding and support.
Candidate Requirements
Qualified Social Worker with registration to practice in the UK.
Minimum of 3 years post-qualified experience in local authority children’s social care in England.
Recent frontline child protection and safeguarding experience.
Strong cross-cultural practice skills, trauma-informed approach, and experience using interpreters.
Car driver, willing to travel daily across West Sussex and beyond.
Able to provide two detailed practice-based references (DfE template).
Candidates must not have worked in a substantive role within the same region in the last three months.
This is a full-time role, with candidates expected to be available in West Sussex every day. Agency staff are welcomed as part of the service and encouraged to attend transformational and leadership events.