Children's Newly Qualified Social Workers

The starting salary for this role is currently £36,817 per annum based on a 36-hour working week. A further £6,000 is available on completion of your Assisted and Supported Year in Employment with us.

Are you looking for a well-supported first post working with children and young people as part of a 'Good' local authroity?

This is our second intake of NQSWs for 2025, the programme will commence 6th of October 2025.

Surrey is a large and vibrant county that borders with Greater London to the northeast, Kent to the east, East and West Sussex to the south, and Hampshire and Berkshire to the west.

When applying please select your top 3 preferences from the vacancies available:

• Northeast area office based in Weybridge, covering Elmbridge, Spelthorne and Epsom & Ewell: Assessment Team, Family Safeguarding Team & Children with Disability Team.
• Southeast area office based in Reigate, covering Reigate & Banstead, Tandridge & Mole Valley: Assessment Team & Family Safeguarding Team.
• Northwest area office based in Woking covering Woking, Surrey Heath & Runnymede: Assessment Team & Family Safeguarding Team.
• Southwest area office based in Guildford covering Guildford & Waverley: Family Safeguarding Team & Children with Disability Team (the team operates from Woking office)
• Vacancies also available in our Adolescent Service which operate on a North, East or West geography basis, operating out of different offices in those areas.

You will be required to travel to the office where your team is based and within a geographical area to undertake work with children, young people and families, to attend meetings and training as required. When not working with children and families in the community, we support agile working with a combination of home and office working.

Our ASYE programme for Newly Qualified Social Workers is a 12-month programme designed for you to embed learning from your studies and placements and to develop your professional skills and confidence for a career in frontline social work.

The programme is well resourced and supported by a capable team of experienced social work staff and managers. You can expect regular reflective supervision from your Team manager and ASYE Assessor who will guide and support you to develop your knowledge base across various functional areas of practice.

Our recent Ofsted inspection judged our Childrens Services as 'Good' The report recognises that "Staff are well-trained and committed, feel highly valued and are proud to work in Surrey." and that "Children's social care services are led by an impressive, highly motivated, resilient and established leadership team, whose members have been relentless and successful in their quest to improve the quality and consistency of social work practice in Surrey."

There will be an opportunity to progress your career with Surrey County Council and tap into our Post-Qualifying Year 2 programme.

NQSWs with Surrey will have access to:

• A comprehensive ASYE Academy Induction programme and Team Induction.
• Allocated Advanced Social Worker as ASYE Assessor, in addition to the operational Team Manager.
• Graduated Supervision offer with increased support in the first six months.
• Graduated workload reaching a 90% allocation by the end of programme.
• Monthly one-to-one or group reflective supervision with ASYE Assessor.
• Access to our Children's Quality Practice and Performance Service to develop skills in social work practice.
• Monthly ASYE Learning Events focusing on Post Qualifying Standards (KSS).
• Two days a month Protected Development Time.
• Community Care inform, Research in Practice, and Care Knowledge learning platforms.
• Surrey Safeguarding Children's Partnership training programme, our wider Academy learning & development offer, plus bespoke Court Skills for Social Workers & Domestic Abuse training for NQSWs.
• Access to a secure SharePoint hub for collaborative working and access to up-to-date resources.

Rewards and Benefits

• 28 days annual leave, rising to 30 days after 5 years' service (&bank holidays)
• Option to buy up to 10 days of additional annual leave
• An extensive Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) to support health and wellbeing
• Up to 5 days of carer's leave per year
• Parental, adoption and dependant's leave
• A generous local government salary related pension
• Lifestyle discounts including gym, travel, shopping and many more
• 2 paid volunteering days year
• Learning and development hub where you can access a wealth of resources
• We pay your Social Work England registration fee for any registration period when you are employed with us

For shortlisting your application will evidence the following:

• You hold a Social Work qualification such as a Degree, Masters or Post Graduate Diploma in Social Work (or will be about to obtain any of these)
• You are (or will be) registering with Social Work England and have permission to work in the UK following your studies
• Your experience of working with children, young people and their families, e.g. voluntary work / transferable work experience skills / social work placements etc
• That you qualified within two years of the NQSW cohort commencing in October 2025 (If you qualified earlier than October 2023 your application will not be considered)

Please contact us for any questions relating to the role via email at .

The job advert closes at 23:59 on Sunday the 1st of June 2025 with shortlisting planned for W/C the 2nd of June 2025.

Face-to-face interviews are planned to take place between the 13th and 30th of June 2025.

We are committed to promoting a supportive and inclusive recruitment process therefore if your application is shortlisted, interview questions/ themes will be shared with you in advance, to help support with your preparations.