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Are you ready for a fulfilling and impactful career opportunity in Southend-on-Sea? We are seeking an empathetic and versatile Social Worker to join the Children Looked After Team. Here, you will play a crucial role in supporting foster carers and the young people in their care. Southend-on-Sea offers a vibrant community by the coast with excellent amenities and a supportive team environment. This role comes with an attractive annual salary ranging from £39,152 to £45,091, making it an exciting opportunity for someone ready to make a difference in the lives of children. Perks and benefits: Joining this team means enjoying a competitive salary while working in a location that offers a unique blend of urban and seaside living. You will benefit from ongoing professional development opportunities to keep your career on the path to success. We also provide a supportive work culture and flexible working arrangements to help maintain a healthy work-life balance. Additionally, the role offers access to employee assistance programmes and wellbeing initiatives to ensure you stay at your best, both professionally and personally. Plus, Southend-on-Sea is just a short train ride from London, offering great lifestyle flexibility. What you will do: • Recruit, train, assess, supervise, and support foster carers in their vital role of looking after children and young people, • Ensure the highest professional standards and maintain comprehensive knowledge of relevant children's and fostering legislation, regulations, and practice methods, • Provide a supportive and efficient service to children, young people, their families, and fostering families, ensuring professional assessment of their needs, • Investigate, evaluate, and analyse information on cases, demonstrating clarity of assessment, reliable information, and realistic action plans, • Develop a holistic practice that considers the individual's immediate and extended social circles and overall development needs, • Ensure casework and foster care services comply with statutory requirements, fostering regulations, and council policies, • Complete investigations, enquiries, and assessments to high professional standards within agreed timescales, • Utilise ICT effectively to maintain adequate case recording as per service procedures, • Ensure all case management meets statutory requirements and the council’s policies and procedures Requirements: • Degree in Social Work, DipSW, CQSW, CSS, or equivalent, • GSCC Registration, • Knowledge of child protection and issues affecting children looked after, • Understanding of methods of social work intervention, relevant legislation, and regulations, • Familiarity with the framework for the assessment of children in need and their families, • Experience in multi-disciplinary working and with foster carers Southend-on-Sea is not only an excellent place to work but also a fantastic place to live. Enjoy beautiful seaside views, a buzzing cultural scene, and a welcoming community. With a perfect mix of coastal charm and vibrant city life just an hour’s train ride from London, Southend-on-Sea provides the ideal setting to grow both personally and professionally. This could be your next big adventure! Come join us in making a real difference every day. Working with Sanctuary Personnel: Sanctuary Personnel is a trusted and award-winning agency for roles. With an ‘Excellent’ rating on Trustpilot from over 1,000 reviews and many prestigious industry awards, we are dedicated to finding you the best possible rates in roles that match your skills and experience.

Your New Organisation Southend-on-Sea City Council is a unitary local authority, providing vital services to meet the needs of the local community. We employ around 1,800 staff who work alongside our partners and local communities to deliver the city vision and make lives better for the people of Southend. Working for Southend-on-Sea City Council offers a challenging and rewarding career in local go...

Change Needs You Become a Met Police Officer with a starting salary of over £42k The Met is working hard to drive more trust, reduce crime, and maintain high standards for London and its communities. The Met is made up of officers and staff from all backgrounds but we are committed to becoming more representative of the communities we serve. To do this the Met recognises the need to change. Whilst that change takes time, we want people like you to join and help to make a big difference. We’re looking for people who share our values of integrity, courage, accountability, respect and empathy to join the dedicated, honest, committed, hard-working officers and staff already in our team. Those who are committed to working hard to bring offenders to justice, protect vulnerable people and deliver the change needed for London and its communities. Change Needs You. Become a police officer, unlock your potential, support London’s communities and make London a safer city for all. Change Your Potential: Policing is a challenging but rewarding career like no other. With your will and determination, we will help you reach your full potential as a Met police officer and be the best you can be for yourself, your community and London. As a police constable in London’s Met, you’ll join over 30,000 colleagues working across 32 boroughs, all dedicated to serving over nine million residents in one of the most dynamic and diverse cities in the world. You’ll learn new things every day whether you’re out on patrol in the local community, giving evidence in court, investigating burglaries or supporting victims of crime. Every day brings a fresh challenge, the chance to learn something new and help others. A range of benefits: A career as a police officer offers many rewards and benefits, including: • A competitive starting salary of c. £42,210 rising up to c. £59,994 as a PC, inclusive of allowances., • Discounted rail travel up to 70 miles after initial training and free London travel, • Gain a fully-funded degree while earning and developing skills for life under our apprenticeship route, • Generous police pension scheme, • Generous annual leave and a range of other leave options, including career breaks, special leave, parental and adoption leave, • A comprehensive Health and Wellbeing service to help you stay healthy and well, • Access to a large number of subsidised leisure and sporting activities, • Becoming part of the Met family, and the policing family nationally - a unique and supportive network where you’ll meet friends for life while all working together to make London and the UK safer for everyone. Whether working collaboratively or on your own beat, your team and the wider Met are there to support you, • Flexible working options. Policing is a 24/7 service, and you will therefore be expected to work shift patterns including weekends and nights. However, we do aim to offer flexible working opportunities where operationally viable and depending on the role., • A wide range of staff support associations which support the different interests of the staff and officers they represent, including but not limited to; the Association of Muslim Policing, the Metropolitan Police LGBT Network, the Metropolitan Police Black Police Association and the Network of Women How to join us: There are two routes of entry; our Police Constable Degree Apprenticeship (PCDA) or our Police Constable Entry Programme (PCEP). Police Constable Degree Apprenticeship (PCDA) A three-year programme where you can learn as you earn policing London's streets, gaining a (BSc) Hons degree in professional policing practice on completion. The Met covers all qualification fees so there's no cost to you, it's all fully funded. You’ll start by working with one of our partner universities learning the basics of the job, before joining a team of experienced officers teaching you invaluable skills that you’ll put into practice and build upon before returning to uni for an end of programme assessment. Police Constable Entry Programme (PCEP) A two-year programme which provides new recruits with a blend of classroom based and operational learning. Your initial training will take place at a Met training centre before you join one of our policing teams to gain practical, on-the-job experience. You will be regularly assessed on your knowledge, skills and behaviours but, unlike our other entry route, you will not be required to complete an academic qualification as part of your training or attend university. Change Your Future There are countless career opportunities available at the Met due to its size and diverse population that you wouldn’t find in any other UK city. Upon successful completion of your training period, you’ll be able to decide on how you want to shape your future career path. Whether that be undertaking a new role, joining a specialist team, training to become a detective, or promotion through the ranks; there will always be a role for you at the Met. You could choose to work in diplomatic protection, work with horses in our Mounted Branch, or even work in cyber-crime. These are just some of the many paths you could choose to follow as your career progresses. Change Needs You Apply Now