Social Care Lead Sunrise Hub - Family Support & Safeguarding
London Borough of Barking and Dagenham
About this job
Fixed Term Opportunity
Are you an experienced LBBD social worker or manager looking to broaden your impact, develop strategic leadership skills and influence CSA practice beyond a single service or borough? We are offering an exciting internal secondment opportunity to take on the role of Social Work Lead within the North East London (NEL) Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) Sunrise Hub – a specialist, multi‑agency service at the forefront of improving responses to child sexual abuse
Why this role is a great development opportunity
- This is a unique chance to: Step into a specialist, system‑wide role influencing CSA practice across seven NEL local authorities
- Develop strategic, practice‑leading and multi‑agency leadership experience
- Work closely with health, police, Barnardo’s and safeguarding partners
- Strengthen your profile for future senior leadership, principal social worker or specialist lead roles
- Contribute directly to an innovative service model of regional and national interest
About the role
As the Social Work Lead, you will be the senior social work professional within the Sunrise Hub, providing expert safeguarding leadership, consultation and challenge.
Key aspects of the role include:
- Acting as the social work expert adviser on complex CSA cases
- Providing specialist advice, consultation and training to social workers, managers and MASH
- Leading on the development and implementation of CSA pathways across NEL
- Supporting high‑quality decision‑making in partnership with health and police colleagues
- Delivering reflective case supervision to the Health and Wellbeing Advisor within the Hub
- Championing trauma‑informed, child‑centred and anti‑oppressive practice
- Supporting learning, evaluation and continuous improvement across the CSA system
- You will work across North East London local authorities, spending some time based at the Royal London Hospital clinic, while remaining professionally grounded in statutory social care practice.
About you
Who this is aimed at
This secondment is particularly well suited to LBBD colleagues who:
- Are Social Work England registered
- Have significant post‑qualification experience in statutory safeguarding / child protection
- Are currently operating at senior practitioner, consultant social worker or management level
- Have experience offering supervision, consultation or quality assurance
- Are confident working across boundaries and offering constructive challenge
- Have a strong interest in child sexual abuse practice, partnership working and system improvement What LBBD will gain
- This secondment will also bring learning and value back into the service, strengthening: Our CSA practice leadership Multi‑agency relationships across NEL Future internal capacity for specialist safeguarding roles