Social Worker - Triage Team
| Posting date: | 09 January 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £42,839 to £46,142 per year, pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 25 January 2026 |
| Location: | Keynsham, Bristol |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 5 days per week |
| Company: | Bath & North East Somerset Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | RITM0231842 |
Summary
If your passion is around collaborative work with families, centred on building relationships in order to help families develop resilience and make changes for their children, then we are the Local Authority for you. Even at the front door, through interactions with families who have been referred in, our aim is to promote therapeutic conversations to enhance families’ experiences of working with social care. Our practice model is underpinned by relationship-based, systemic approaches to facilitate change, alongside trauma informed practice.
Bath and North East Somerset Children’s Services are rated Good by OFSTED, with continued vision and drive to improve further.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Qualified Social Worker to join our Triage Team, within the Safeguarding Outcomes Service. We are committed to being a flexible, dynamic and creative Local Authority, working hard to think differently about how we approach our work with families. We are deeply committed to providing tailored high-quality services and well thought out interventions to families to keep children safe. Our practice is values-driven with a strong ethos of child-focused interventions, therapeutic assessments and support.
About the role:
You will work in partnership with an enthusiastic team consisting of a Team Manager, Deputy Team Manager, Senior Social Work Practitioners, Social Workers, Referral & Information Officers, and Administrative staff.
This rewarding role will see you responding to new referrals in to social care, establishing the level of risk, signposting on to Early Help or partnership agencies where appropriate, contacting families and professionals to discuss new referrals and respond to incidents, and processing referrals to be opened to social care where the criteria is met for a section 17 single assessment or strategy discussion. You will work closely with our colleagues across the service and will have established partnerships with agencies across health, education, police, support services and adult services to ensure we can respond as effectively as possible to the needs of children, young people, and their families.
About you:
You will be able to evidence a strong ability to analyse information and make robust decisions for children and families, as well as demonstrating your capability to work constructively with partner agencies to support families. Applicants need to have very strong organisational skills to manage and prioritise their work effectively and in a timely way and will be committed to working as part of a team to support colleagues in delivering optimum services to children and families.
We are seeking applications from workers who have relevant post-qualifying experience in safeguarding and are looking to enhance and further develop their skills and contribute to service development for vulnerable children in an exciting and dynamic service.
You can expect:
• A comprehensive induction
• Regular supervision – at a minimum of monthly one to one
• Monthly Team Meetings
• Monthly Peer Circles to ensure strong relationships and support between Social Workers across the teams, bringing staff together in reflective and learning spaces to share experiences and practice wisdom
• Extensive training opportunities, which include SARI workshops around culturally sensitive practice, opportunities to join a 6-month long training in Systemic Practice delivered by the Centre for Systemic Social Work, attachment-based workshops, and trauma-informed workshops
• Excellent administrative support with dedicated admin staff supporting each team
• Bi-annual Social Work Conferences with guest speakers who are experts in the field. Examples of previous conferences have included Donald Forrester, Brid Featherstone, Rebecca Carr-Hopkins, ‘Annie’ from Surviving Safeguarding, and Dr Karen Treisman
• Paid Social Work England renewals
• Access to Research in Practice
• Relocation Payments are available
• A stable leadership team
• A stable and committed team, with very low rates of agency workers, and low vacancy rates
• Laptop to promote flexible working, to enhance your work-life balance
To apply you will have:
• A relevant social work qualification
• Knowledge of the legislative framework that governs children’s services
• Knowledge of theory and practice applicable to social work
• IT skills to enable operation of standard electronic systems
• Passion, commitment, and motivation to support the most vulnerable families in our area
• Post-qualifying experience of working in children’s social care within a safeguarding team
• Experience of multi-agency working
• Good understanding and ability to apply thresholds
Ellis Woodley, Team Manager Triage Team on 01225 395076 or email ellis_woodley@bathnes.gov.uk
Bath and North East Somerset Children’s Services are rated Good by OFSTED, with continued vision and drive to improve further.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Qualified Social Worker to join our Triage Team, within the Safeguarding Outcomes Service. We are committed to being a flexible, dynamic and creative Local Authority, working hard to think differently about how we approach our work with families. We are deeply committed to providing tailored high-quality services and well thought out interventions to families to keep children safe. Our practice is values-driven with a strong ethos of child-focused interventions, therapeutic assessments and support.
About the role:
You will work in partnership with an enthusiastic team consisting of a Team Manager, Deputy Team Manager, Senior Social Work Practitioners, Social Workers, Referral & Information Officers, and Administrative staff.
This rewarding role will see you responding to new referrals in to social care, establishing the level of risk, signposting on to Early Help or partnership agencies where appropriate, contacting families and professionals to discuss new referrals and respond to incidents, and processing referrals to be opened to social care where the criteria is met for a section 17 single assessment or strategy discussion. You will work closely with our colleagues across the service and will have established partnerships with agencies across health, education, police, support services and adult services to ensure we can respond as effectively as possible to the needs of children, young people, and their families.
About you:
You will be able to evidence a strong ability to analyse information and make robust decisions for children and families, as well as demonstrating your capability to work constructively with partner agencies to support families. Applicants need to have very strong organisational skills to manage and prioritise their work effectively and in a timely way and will be committed to working as part of a team to support colleagues in delivering optimum services to children and families.
We are seeking applications from workers who have relevant post-qualifying experience in safeguarding and are looking to enhance and further develop their skills and contribute to service development for vulnerable children in an exciting and dynamic service.
You can expect:
• A comprehensive induction
• Regular supervision – at a minimum of monthly one to one
• Monthly Team Meetings
• Monthly Peer Circles to ensure strong relationships and support between Social Workers across the teams, bringing staff together in reflective and learning spaces to share experiences and practice wisdom
• Extensive training opportunities, which include SARI workshops around culturally sensitive practice, opportunities to join a 6-month long training in Systemic Practice delivered by the Centre for Systemic Social Work, attachment-based workshops, and trauma-informed workshops
• Excellent administrative support with dedicated admin staff supporting each team
• Bi-annual Social Work Conferences with guest speakers who are experts in the field. Examples of previous conferences have included Donald Forrester, Brid Featherstone, Rebecca Carr-Hopkins, ‘Annie’ from Surviving Safeguarding, and Dr Karen Treisman
• Paid Social Work England renewals
• Access to Research in Practice
• Relocation Payments are available
• A stable leadership team
• A stable and committed team, with very low rates of agency workers, and low vacancy rates
• Laptop to promote flexible working, to enhance your work-life balance
To apply you will have:
• A relevant social work qualification
• Knowledge of the legislative framework that governs children’s services
• Knowledge of theory and practice applicable to social work
• IT skills to enable operation of standard electronic systems
• Passion, commitment, and motivation to support the most vulnerable families in our area
• Post-qualifying experience of working in children’s social care within a safeguarding team
• Experience of multi-agency working
• Good understanding and ability to apply thresholds
Ellis Woodley, Team Manager Triage Team on 01225 395076 or email ellis_woodley@bathnes.gov.uk
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