Children's Social Worker, NRPF team, East London

Children's Social Worker, NRPF team, East London Pay rate to £37.52 per hour Contract role - No Recourse to Public Funds team across Children and Adult's Services Pertemps are recruiting for an experienced Children's Social Worker in East London. This is to work in a NRPF team in the Dagenham area.

• To provide advice and information to NRPF residents who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness.

• To have a caseload of NRPF cases and provide specialist guidance and support to Housing Options Service and Social Care colleagues.

• To work with Legal Services, if required, to fully understand the duties and powers the Council has, as well as the limits of that support, on case-by-case basis.

• To support the resolution of immigration issues, working with legal representatives and the Home Office through NRPF Connect.

• To utilise the Councils housing contracts for emergency accommodation, and consider new alternative housing models, such as cross-subsidy housing models

• To support the review of Section 17 subsistence rates annually.

• To proactively work with asylum, refugee and domestic abuse agencies within the London Borough of Barking & Dagenham and to represent the service at meetings.

• You will be an experienced social worker able to work independently and to offer support to less experienced colleagues. You will have a commitment to building relationships with children, young people, and their care givers and using this approach to effect change.

• You will ensure that services are efficiently and effectively provided, liaising as necessary with other Council Divisions, Health, Education, Police, voluntary and independent sector providers.

There is plenty of hybrid working available. Please get in touch for more information. This is an agency post and Pertemps can offer you:-

• A Dedicated consultant who has access to all roles across the UK and is available for you to speak to

• An easy registration process (all done online)

• Referral schemes and incentives

• Ongoing compliance managed for you

• Prompt and reliable payroll and lots more.

Please contact Graham Leatham on or email for more information. We recruit across all areas of Qualified Social Work. If you are a Social Worker and this isn't the role for you, contact us about other roles including IRO, BIA, MASH, LAC, Children's Social Work, Adult Social Work, Service Manager, Head of Service, Team Manager and Assistant Team Manager