Social Worker WCC621891

Job Details:

Salary range: £41,580 - £55,710 per annum. Salary negotiable depending upon experience
Work location: 4 Frampton Street, Westminster, London NW8 8LF
Hours per week: 36
Contract type: Permanent
Vetting requirements: Enhanced DBS Check 
Closing date: 14 August 2025
Interview date: 22 August 2025

About Us:

THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF EMPOWERED FAMILIES

Children’s Services at Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories where compassionate people bring everything to their work, including their own experiences of parenting.

Take Melissa, a Senior Social Worker in our Assessment Team. She’s one of the first people families meet when accessing our services, so building rapport is critical. And that’s where Melissa’s life experience really counts. She had her first child as a young adult and knows just how judgemental others can be.

Melissa has something unique to offer and it can’t be found in a textbook: her own experience of raising two children as a single parent. She’s committed to empowering others: giving them the skills, resources and confidence they need, from housing support to baby supplies. And if the family has older kids? Well, she’s been there too. Her youngest is now 15 and Melissa knows the challenges of helping young people navigate inner-city life.

Melissa first learnt her craft as a support worker, then completed her statutory training as social worker – all while raising her family single-handed. And she’s not done yet. Supported by her managers, she’s been training in systemic therapy and is already looking forward to her next development opportunity.

Melissa’s more than a social worker; she’s a shining example to the families she works with every day.

The Role:

As a Social Worker with the Shared Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) you can make your own powerful contribution to safeguarding children. Joining an outstanding and high performing team dedicated to safeguarding children and young people across the three boroughs of Westminster, Hammersmith & Fulham and Kensington & Chelsea, you’ll help to protect children at risk by identifying and delivering timely, effective support services, and empower families to build their resilience and safely care for their children. Committed to engaging with the people you work with to ensure their voices shape the outcomes of referrals and result in positive, sustainable outcomes, you’ll collaborate with your colleagues and multi-agency partners as you deliver empathetic, joined-up, child-centred support.

Conducting the triage of referrals received into the MASH, and ensuring appropriate responses, you’ll work to accurately identify levels of need and risk, and use cultural sensitivity and systemic practice values as you engage with families and fellow professionals. Liaising with multi-agency partners including police, health, education and the probation service to gather and analyse relevant information, you’ll use all your professional judgement as you complete risk assessments and make evidence-based decisions and recommendations.

Progressing cases for statutory intervention and making referrals to the appropriate services, you’ll be committed to ensuring the voices of children and families are clearly captured in the assessments and decisions you make. We’ll expect you to keep accurate, high-quality records of your work, and in addition to contributing to the ongoing development and improvement of the MASH service, you’ll also take part in regular training and reflective practice to support your continuous professional development.

Please refer to the Job Description for more information.

About You:

Registered with Social Work England and with a CQSW, DipSw or their equivalent and a clear and enhanced DBS, you’ll have well developed experience of supporting vulnerable children and families, ideally within a local authority setting. And in addition to a strong understanding of safeguarding under the Children Acts 1989 and 2004, you should have plenty of experience in at least one of the following areas: Early Help, Child in Need, Child Protection, Care Proceedings, Permanency Planning or Leaving Care.

With a trauma-informed, strengths-based approach to your work, you’ll be confident at assessing risk and need, engaging with families from diverse backgrounds, and working directly with children and young people with varying needs and experiences. Collaboration will be key to your success, so you’ll need to be skilled in multi-agency working and engaging with families both in person and on the telephone. Strong organisational and analytical skills are essential, as is the ability to apply systemic and Signs of Safety approaches in your practice.

It goes without saying that you’ll have excellent verbal and written communication skills, be capable of analysing complex information with a view to recommending an appropriate level of intervention, and possess the ability to write high-quality, evidence-based reports. Highly organised and capable of balancing competing demands such as caseloads, direct work, record keeping and statutory processes, you’ll be a friendly, approachable and collaborative worker with a dedication to managing risk and driving positive change for children and their families.

Westminster City Council is committed to supporting Care Leavers into the workplace. Care Leavers seeking their first job and who wish to be considered under our scheme, will automatically be invited to interview should they meet the essential criteria for the role.

What We Offer:

Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster.

Westminster City Council’s strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.

At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit

As a forward thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.

The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application , we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.

We reserve the right to extend or close this vacancy early without warning subject to the volume of suitable applicants.