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Casual Residential Childcare Worker

£28,598 - £31,022 per annum subject to pro rata
Casual
18 Tipton Road, Sedgley
Closing date: Saturday 4 May 2030

We are looking to appoint Casual Residential Childcare Workers who will, under the supervision of a senior member of staff, contribute to to all aspects of the physical, emotional and personal care of the the children / young people residing at Dudley's three residential children's homes so as to promote their welfare whilst working in partnership with their family and other professionals.

Initially hours of work will be offered to the successful applicants as required to meet the needs of 18 Tipton Road Children's Home (which provides a safe, nurturing, caring and stimulating environment for young people with complex needs including physical, sensory and moderate to severe learning disabilities or complex social, emotional and behavioural difficulties) but hours at the Authority's other two homes will be available in the future.

Level 4 Diploma for Children's & Young People's Workforce or equivalent together with experience of working with young people is desirable.

For more information on the role contact mark.bates@dudley.gov.uk

Social Worker - Dudley Exploitation Team

£39,152 to £46,142 per annum plus £7,000 per annum Market Forces Supplement
Permanent (full time)
Cable Plaza, Waterfront West, Brierley Hill, Dudley
Closing date: Sunday 14 June 2026

Grade 9 and Grade 10 posts available.

Dudley Exploitation Hub is a multi-disciplinary team that specialise in supporting children who are experiencing or at risk of experiencing harm outside the home. This includes sexual and criminal exploitation, modern slavery, youth criminality, and anti-social behaviour. The service provides a central triage point for referrals from across Dudley Borough and works with partners, our vulnerable young people and their families to disrupt and reduce risk through child centred safety planning and intensive intervention.

Our exploitation hub practitioners work intensively with young people assessed to be at High and Medium risk of exploitation and also support Lead Practitioners from across the partnership, including our Family Help and Youth Justice services, our health, education and police colleagues and our commissioned specialist exploitation services, to ensure that early vulnerabilities are recognised and early intervention and support is co-ordinated.

Working alongside families using our Restorative Model of practice, we use family led-decision making strategies and Motivational Interviewing skills to help families access creative and targeted support packages that will help to develop meaningful and lasting change for families. You will work with a small number of young people, no more than 10 at any one time to lead interventions and support specific to the risks outside the home. This may mean that you also co-work with practitioners in our Family Help or Youth Justice service so that packages are support are well co-ordinated, creative and reflect individual child and family needs.

We are seeking to recruit practitioners who can evidence sound knowledge around exploitation, missing and contextual safeguarding and have the ability to build and develop effective relationships with young people and families facing these complex challenges. You will work with a small number of young people, no more than 10 at any one time to lead interventions and support specific to the risks outside the home and co-work with practitioners in our Family Help or Youth Justice service. You will also contribute to learning with colleagues by mentoring, coaching, and participating in reflective discussions.

If you require more information or have any questions about this exciting opportunity please email Karen Johnson (Principal Service Lead) @ karen.g.Johnson@dudley.gov.uk

Social Worker - Assessment Service

£39,152 - £46,142 per annum plus £7,000 per annum Market Forces Supplement
Permanent (full time)
Cable Plaza, Waterfront West, Brierley Hill, Dudley
Closing date: Sunday 14 June 2026

Grade 9 and Grade 10 posts available.

Our developing Family Help service aims to provide targeted support and help to families so that children and families can thrive and more families are able to stay together. We recognise that providing the right type of support at the right time for families is key to working effectively and that lasting relationships with professionals is central to working alongside families and their networks. Working alongside families using our Restorative Model of practice, we use family led-decision making strategies and Motivational Interviewing skills to help families access creative and targeted support packages that will help to develop meaningful and lasting change for families. This includes increased capacity to manage complex parenting challenges and reducing risks within family networks and across our community.

Our Family Help service is delivered through the ‘Family Safeguarding model’ which delivers a whole family approach to support. Social workers and Family Help practitioners will co-ordinate the support offered to families drawing on the knowledge and skillset of experienced Child Practitioners; Drug and Alcohol practitioners’ Probation Officers; Domestic Abuse Workers, and Mental Health Practitioners. The Family Safeguarding programme is used to inform our direct work with families and our model of supervision is reflective group supervision involving those practitioners involved in supporting a family.

Our ambition is for more families to receive the support that they need from within their local community through our model of early support. However, we recognise that some worries about children and families arise quickly and can be significant for children, particularly child protection concerns. Our Family Help service therefore incudes an assessment service which uses our single assessment process and statutory child protection procedures, to work alongside families in assessing their needs and identifying the right plan of support for them. Referrals come directly to the team from our integrated children’s front door and link in closely with our Family Help and locality partners. We are currently developing our (Multi-Agency Child Protection Team (MACPT) and in time, the Assessment Team will work closed with MACPT to assess and plan for our children requiring child protection intervention.

If you require more information or have any questions about this exciting opportunity please email Karen Johnson (Principal Service Lead) @ karen.g.Johnson@dudley.gov.uk

Social Worker - Family Help

£39,152 to £46,142 per annum plus £7,000 per annum Market Forces Supplement
Permanent (full time)
Cable Plaza, Waterfront West, Brierley Hill, Dudley
Closing date: Sunday 14 June 2026

Grade 9 and Grade 10 posts available.

Our developing Family Help service aims to provide targeted support and help to families so that children and families can thrive and more families are able to stay together. We recognise that providing the right type of support at the right time for families is key to working effectively and that lasting relationships with professionals is central to working alongside families and their networks. Working alongside families using our Restorative Model of practice, we use family led-decision making strategies and Motivational Interviewing skills to help families access creative and targeted support packages that will help to develop meaningful and lasting change for families. This includes increased capacity to manage complex parenting challenges and reducing risks within family networks and across our community.

Our Family Help service is delivered through the ‘Family Safeguarding model’ which delivers a whole family approach to support. Social workers and Family Help practitioners will co-ordinate the support offered to families drawing on the knowledge and skillset of experienced Child Practitioners; Drug and Alcohol practitioners’ Probation Officers; Domestic Abuse Workers, and Mental Health Practitioners. The Family Safeguarding programme is used to inform our direct work with families and our model of supervision is reflective group supervision involving those practitioners involved in supporting a family.

We are based centrally at Cable Plaza, Dudley Waterfront but our Family Help service is a locality-based model. Teams working closely alongside Dudley’s 5 Family Hubs who provide early support to families through their links with our local partners. As the Family help service continues to develop, improved relationships between Family Help practitioners and our local partners will enable more families to be supported earlier when problems and difficulties are easier to address.

We believe our children and families deserve the consistency and stability in the support provided. Our service works with families who require a single assessment, a co-ordinated plan including child protection plans and we undertake pre-proceedings and care proceedings work. We recognise that strong permanency planning for our children is key to supporting family relationships and networks, even when it is not safe for children to remain within the care of a parent. Our kinship offer is developing and we working closely with our kinship team to secure creative and supportive plans for family networks.

Our service is a friendly and passionate service, always seeking to improve the best outcomes for our children and families. We offer a great opportunity to expand your skillset, knowledge, and confidence within front line help and safeguarding practice, supported by regular supervision and a committed and supportive management team.

If you are passionate about working with children, are motivated to make a difference, and have a desire to help and support others, we want to hear from you!

If you require more information or have any questions about this exciting opportunity please email Karen Johnson (Principal Service Lead) @ karen.g.Johnson@dudley.gov.uk

Social Worker - Fostering - Assessment Team

£39,152 - £46,142 per annum
Permanent (full time)
Cable Plaza, Waterfront West, Brierley Hill, Dudley
Closing date: Sunday 14 June 2026

Grade 9 to Grade 10 - grade and salary subject to experience

At Dudley MBC we are recruiting for posts within our Fostering Service, this is an exciting time for Dudley’s Fostering Service as we grow and expand our services provided to our Kinship and Mainstream Foster Carers. Our priority is for Dudley children to be kept safe, local, happy and fulfilling their potential. We need you to be part of our journey in ensuring our children’s wellbeing is at the top priority.

Dudley Fostering Service is dedicated to recruiting and assessing the very best Carers to provide a warm and loving home for our children in care. We are based at Cable Plaza Waterfront in Brierley Hill, Dudley, where we are co-located with the rest of children’s services which supports great joint working opportunities.

The Role

Your role will be to complete assessments of potential foster carers, some of whom will already have children placed with them under kinship legislation. Experience of working to court deadlines would be desirable. Experience of delivering Skills to Foster training would also be desirable, but opportunities will also be given for shadowing and mentoring.

We have three teams within the fostering service – assessment, supervision and support, and kinship. The workers are support of each other, and the teams work closely together to ensure that workloads are fair across the service, for example all of the social workers in our teams undertake initial viability assessments on a rota basis.

It is an exciting time to join Dudley. In our fostering service we are passionate about working with our foster carers to achieve stability and permanence for our Dudley children. We have good relationships with our foster carers, and work with our foster carer association to continuously improve and develop the fostering service. Applicants you assess will have the opportunity to have a Buddy allocated to them, another foster carer who has been through the journey. They will also have the opportunity to attend regular monthly support groups (attendance is usually between 15 to 30 foster carers per group). We are also developing our kinship offer, and one of those groups is specifically for SGO carers.

You will be fully qualified social worker, with a minimum of 12 months post qualification experience in statutory social care.

You will receive regular supervision and guidance from your team manager, as well as receiving support from colleagues in a fostering service which has a positive culture. You will also receive regular opportunities for training and development.

For further information about position email the team manager cordell.simpson@dudley.gov.uk, who will be happy to arrange an informal discussion regarding the role.

Social Worker - Fostering - Supervision and Support Team

£39,152 to £46,142 per annum.
Permanent (full time)
Cable Plaza, Waterfront West, Brierley Hill, Dudley
Closing date: Sunday 14 June 2026

Grade 9 to 10 - grade and salary subject to experience

At Dudley MBC we are recruiting for posts within our Fostering Service, this is an exciting time for Dudley’s Fostering Service as we grow and expand our services provided to our Kinship and Mainstream Foster Carers. Our priority is for Dudley children to be kept safe, local, happy and fulfilling their potential. We need you to be part of our journey in ensuring our children’s wellbeing is at the top priority.

Dudley Fostering Service is dedicated to recruiting and assessing the very best Carers to provide a warm and loving home for our children in care. We are based at Cable Plaza Waterfront in Brierley Hill, Dudley, where we are co-located with the rest of children’s services which supports great joint working opportunities.

The Role

Our fostering service has three teams: supervision and support, kinship and assessment. We are looking for an experienced Social Worker to join our supervision and support team due to the number of new mainstream households we have going through our fostering panel at the moment. However, the teams work closely together to ensure caseloads are shared fairly and kinship work will be part of the workload. All of our fostering social workers also undertake initial viability assessments on a rota basis. There are also opportunities to become involved in delivering training.

In this role, experience of matching and supporting new foster carers would be desirable. You will also be able to demonstrate collaborative work and relationship building with our children’s teams.

It is an exciting time to join Dudley. We are working closely with our foster carer association to continuously improve the journey of our foster carers. New foster carers are given the opportunity to have an experienced foster carer as a Buddy, as part of their support system. They will also have the opportunity to attend regular monthly support groups, where attendance is usually between 15 to 30 foster carers per group.

You will be fully qualified social worker, with a minimum of 12 months post qualification experience in statutory social care.

You will receive regular supervision and guidance from your team manager, as well as receiving support from colleagues in a fostering service which has a positive culture. You will also receive regular opportunities for training and development.

For further information about position email the team manager at naweed.malik@dudley.gov.uk who will be happy to arrange an informal discussion regarding the role.

Family Support Worker

£28,598 - £31,022 per annum (Pay Award Pending)
Cover for Maternity Leave – Full time 37 hour contract
Dudley
Closing date: Friday 19 June 2026

Join our dedicated Early Help team at Dudley’s Family Hubs in a rewarding role supporting children and families in the community. We are looking for a passionate and empathetic Family Support Worker to deliver practical, strengths-based support.

While you will be based at a locality at time you may be required to work across the 5 Family Hubs listed below:

Brierley Hill Family Hub
Dudley Family Hub
Coseley Family Hub
Halesowen Family Hub
Stourbridge Family Hub

As a Family Support Worker, you will:

Provide direct support to children, young people, and families, tailored to individual needs. Supported through completing Assessment and family plans.
Build positive relationships to empower families and promote improved outcomes.
Work collaboratively with other professionals, agencies, and community groups to deliver integrated early help. Chairing or supporting Team around the family meetings (TAFs)
Support the development and delivery of workshops, parenting programmes, and community-based activities.
Help families navigate services and access timely support through the Dudley Early Help Strategy.
Uphold safeguarding responsibilities across all aspects of your work.
Contribute to service development and ensure quality support aligned with the continuum of need.

We are seeking an enthusiastic team player who thrives in a collaborative environment and is committed to making a real difference. Your communication skills, compassion, and ability to foster trust will be key.

For an informal discussion please contact:

Nikki Wellings - 01384 813954
Clare Payne - 01385 813954
Sarah Moore - 01384 813322