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Qualified Social Worker - Substance Misuse Team (Duty/Short-Term)

Newcastle City Council
Location: Westgate Community College, Newcastle, NE4 9LU
Pay Rate: £27.56 per hour
Contract: Agency | Full-Time

Eden Brown Synergy is currently recruiting 2 experienced Qualified Social Workers to join the Substance Misuse Team at Newcastle City Council on an agency basis.

This is an excellent opportunity for motivated and experienced social workers to support the team with duty and short-term casework, working with adults affected by substance misuse and helping to deliver timely, person-centred interventions.

Key ResponsibilitiesManage duty responsibilities within the Substance Misuse Team.Undertake short-term assessments and interventions with adults requiring support.Complete comprehensive assessments and develop outcome-focused support plans.Work collaboratively with health professionals, partner agencies and multidisciplinary teams.Assess risk and implement appropriate safeguarding measures where required.Maintain accurate and timely case records in line with statutory requirements.Provide effective support to individuals experiencing substance misuse issues, promoting recovery and independence.Ensure all work is completed in accordance with relevant legislation, policies and professional standards.RequirementsQualified Social Worker with a recognised Social Work qualification.Social Work England registration.Previous experience working within Adult Social Care and/or Substance Misuse Services.Experience managing duty work and completing timely assessments.Strong knowledge of safeguarding, risk assessment and relevant legislation.Excellent communication, assessment and case management skills.Ability to work effectively within a fast-paced multidisciplinary environment.Benefits of working with Eden Brown Synergy include:DBS check processed and paid for by Eden Brown Synergy.Referral bonus if you refer a colleague or friend to us.Bonus for finding your own job.Twice weekly payroll.Dedicated recruitment consultant who will support you throughout your job search, employment and beyond.Apply Today

If you are interested in this position, please send your CV to Shristi Yadav at or call 0114 700 3826 for more information.

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Eden Brown Limited is a limited company registered in England and Wales with registered number 3643845. Our registered address is 5th floor 4 Coleman Street, London, EC2R 5AR, part of nGAGE Specialist Recruitment Limited T/A nGAGE Talent. Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. This message is intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to us, and immediately and permanently delete it. Do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. We take reasonable precautions to ensure no viruses are present in this email but cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage sustained as a result of computer viruses and the recipient must ensure that the email (and attachments) are virus free.

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Qualified Social Worker - Transitions Team

You will be working within a well respected Local Authority based in the Birmingham area. The manager is looking for an experienced social worker to manage a complex caseload in the transitions team.

Benefits of this position:

Hybrid working - office based 1 day per weekCompetitive Pay ratesLong term contracts

Eden Brown Synergy is an equal opportunities employer.

Eden Brown Limited is a limited company registered in England and Wales with registered number 3643845. Our registered address is 5th floor 4 Coleman Street, London, EC2R 5AR, part of nGAGE Specialist Recruitment Limited T/A nGAGE Talent. Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. This message is intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to us, and immediately and permanently delete it. Do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. We take reasonable precautions to ensure no viruses are present in this email but cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage sustained as a result of computer viruses and the recipient must ensure that the email (and attachments) are virus free.

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Wanted to make you aware of an excellent opportunity currently available with Coventry City Council's Emergency Duty Team (EDT).

Role: EDT Social Worker
Location: Between One Friargate and Whitley Depot, Coventry
Rate: £33.30ph Umbrella (MOU)
Working Pattern: Office-based role

There is a variable rota pattern in place, which will be provided to shortlisted candidates.

Shift Patterns:

Monday - Thursday

16:45 - 00:3023:50 - 09:00

Friday

16:15 - 00:3023:50 - 09:00

Saturday & Sunday

08:20 - 21:0020:20 - 09:00

Essential Requirements:

Previous Emergency Duty Team (EDT) experience is essential.Ability to work autonomously and confidently manage safeguarding situations out of hours.Experience making sound decisions independently, supported by an on-call management system.

The Emergency Duty Team provides a vital out-of-hours service across Coventry, supporting Children's Services, Adult Social Care, Housing, and Youth Justice Services. The team responds to urgent social care matters that cannot safely wait until the next working day, ensuring vulnerable children, adults, and families receive timely intervention and support.

This role involves responding to safeguarding concerns, assessing risk, coordinating emergency responses, and working closely with partner agencies. You will also oversee and support Children and Family Workers while ensuring effective decision-making throughout your shift.

This is an excellent opportunity for experienced EDT Social Workers who thrive in a fast-paced environment and are confident managing complex safeguarding situations independently.

If you are interested in being considered for this position or would like to discuss the role further, please get in touch as soon as possible.

If you are interested in this position, please send your CV to Adarsh Parihar at or call on 020 8152 8922.

Benefits of working with Eden Brown Synergy include:

DBS check processed and paid for by Eden Brown SynergyReferral bonus if you refer a colleague or friend to usBonus for finding your own jobTwice weekly payrollDedicated recruitment consultant who will support you throughout your job search, employment and beyond.

Eden Brown Synergy is an equal opportunities employer.

Eden Brown Limited is a limited company registered in England and Wales with registered number 3643845. Our registered address is 5th floor 4 Coleman Street, London, EC2R 5AR, part of nGAGE Specialist Recruitment Limited T/A nGAGE Talent. Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. This message is intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to us, and immediately and permanently delete it. Do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. We take reasonable precautions to ensure no viruses are present in this email but cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage sustained as a result of computer viruses and the recipient must ensure that the email (and attachments) are virus free.

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Lead and develop the Front Door service during a period of transformation, ensuring timely, high-quality responses to contacts, referrals, and safeguarding concerns so children receive the right help at the right time. You will drive improvements in practice standards, decision-making, and risk management, including Section 17 and Section 47 interventions, in line with the Children Act 1989, Children Act 2004, and Working Together to Safeguard Children. The role will focus on strengthening a consistent, child-centred practice model, supporting and developing staff capability, and embedding a culture of reflective supervision and continuous improvement. You will lead a multi-agency team within a MASH environment, build strong partnerships across health, police, and education, and ensure performance meets statutory timescales. Candidates will be qualified social workers registered with Social Work England, with strong leadership, resilience, and a proven track record of driving service improvement in safeguarding and front door services.

Eden Brown Synergy is an equal opportunities employer.

Eden Brown Limited is a limited company registered in England and Wales with registered number 3643845. Our registered address is 5th floor 4 Coleman Street, London, EC2R 5AR, part of nGAGE Specialist Recruitment Limited T/A nGAGE Talent. Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. This message is intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to us, and immediately and permanently delete it. Do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. We take reasonable precautions to ensure no viruses are present in this email but cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage sustained as a result of computer viruses and the recipient must ensure that the email (and attachments) are virus free.

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Devon County Council is creating a temporary, specialist team looking to support improved response and resolution in relation to complaints and disputes. We are looking to appoint 3 EHCP Partners to support this team, they will support conversations with families and education settings, create complaint responses, ensuring they support meaningful resolution and reduce the likelihood of repeat complaints.

significant experience and expertise in the statutory processes relating to EHC plans and also understands the need to work with families and schools in a relational way to support resolution.

Eden Brown Synergy is an equal opportunities employer.

Eden Brown Limited is a limited company registered in England and Wales with registered number 3643845. Our registered address is 5th floor 4 Coleman Street, London, EC2R 5AR, part of nGAGE Specialist Recruitment Limited T/A nGAGE Talent. Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. This message is intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to us, and immediately and permanently delete it. Do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. We take reasonable precautions to ensure no viruses are present in this email but cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage sustained as a result of computer viruses and the recipient must ensure that the email (and attachments) are virus free.

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Devon County Council is creating a temporary, specialist team looking to support improved response and resolution in relation to complaints and disputes. We are looking for a Team leader who has significant experience and expertise in the statutory processes relating to EHC plans and also understands the need to work with families and schools in a relational way to support resolution. The main deliverables of this role:
introduce robust complaint and medication tracking tailored to SEND
triage and manage SEND complaints and mediation requests
reduce overdue complaints and escalation risk
generate learning and insight to improve practice
prepare the system for SEND inspection in relation to complaints

Eden Brown Synergy is an equal opportunities employer.

Eden Brown Limited is a limited company registered in England and Wales with registered number 3643845. Our registered address is 5th floor 4 Coleman Street, London, EC2R 5AR, part of nGAGE Specialist Recruitment Limited T/A nGAGE Talent. Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. This message is intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to us, and immediately and permanently delete it. Do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. We take reasonable precautions to ensure no viruses are present in this email but cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage sustained as a result of computer viruses and the recipient must ensure that the email (and attachments) are virus free.

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Education Capital and Place Planning Officer

Location: North Northamptonshire Council,
Kettering
Part remote
Duration: 12 weeks

To ensure the Councils meet their statutory duty to secure sufficient education provision across North Northamptonshire:

· Planning and reviewing of demand across the area
· Contributing to the commissioning and establishing of new places in consultation with other statutory bodies.
· Contributing to the development and on-going review of policies and procedures in respect of the planning and commissioning of 0-25 educational provision in line with established and changing national policies.
· Facilitate the conversion process whereby maintained schools become academies, operating independently from the County Council.

The Education Capital and Place Planning Officer will support the council's delivery of its statutory duty to provide sufficient school places by identifying need and the determination of how school places should be provided through the delivery of new capital projects.

Educated to degree level or equivalent qualification e.g. NVQ 4, HNC

Eden Brown Synergy is an equal opportunities employer.

Eden Brown Limited is a limited company registered in England and Wales with registered number 3643845. Our registered address is 5th floor 4 Coleman Street, London, EC2R 5AR, part of nGAGE Specialist Recruitment Limited T/A nGAGE Talent. Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. This message is intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to us, and immediately and permanently delete it. Do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. We take reasonable precautions to ensure no viruses are present in this email but cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage sustained as a result of computer viruses and the recipient must ensure that the email (and attachments) are virus free.

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About the role
We are recruiting an Interim Head of Sufficiency to provide senior strategic leadership and operational oversight of our placement sufficiency programme. The postholder will drive delivery of the Sufficiency Action Plan, strengthen cross-department alignment, and ensure sufficiency activity translates into improved outcomes for children and measurable financial impact.
What success looks like
* Clear line of sight from the Sufficiency Action Plan to governance, reporting, risks, decisions, and measurable impact.
* Reduced reliance on residential provision through stronger fostering sufficiency and sharper pathways to step-down, stability, and reunification where safe and appropriate.
* Stronger market management with consistent provider engagement, improved negotiation, and decisions grounded in needs and affordability.
* Forecasting and benefits tracking that supports real-time decision-making and drives delivery in line with our Valuing Care Approach.

About you
You will be a credible senior leader with a strong track record in children's social care sufficiency, placements, commissioning, market management, and performance oversight.

The role reports to the Director for Corporate Parenting and Quality and provides senior leadership to the Sufficiency Core Group, supporting robust reporting and governance through the Sufficiency Board.
Stoke-on-Trent has many areas of strong practice. However, the current level of demand and the number of children in care create acute challenges for placement capacity and cost. This role exists to maintain pace, bring grip to delivery, and improve how we match children to the right homes quickly and sustainably.
A key requirement is to reduce reliance on residential children's homes by strengthening foster care sufficiency, working closely with our internal fostering service and external partners.
The postholder will also lead our newly established Valuing Care approach, ensuring practice-led insights translate into step-down, reunification, placement stability, and faster home-finding.

What you will be responsible for

* Lead the coordinated delivery of the Sufficiency Action Plan, ensuring clear progress against milestones, clear ownership of workstreams, and active risk management.
* Strengthen alignment across fostering, residential services, commissioning, brokerage, social work teams, and strategic finance, ensuring a joined-up approach to demand pressures and placement decision pathways.
* Work with commissioning and brokerage on market shaping activity with independent fostering agencies, external residential providers, and supported accommodation services, ensuring provider engagement and negotiation is aligned to sufficiency priorities and financial modelling.
* Support the development and embedding of improved forecasting processes, opportunity tracking, demand projections, and benefits realisation, so that impact is visible, measurable, and acted on.
* Work closely with the Valuing Care lead and panel process so that practice-led insights identify and deliver step-down, reunification, and placement stability opportunities, and inform commissioning

Eden Brown Synergy is an equal opportunities employer.

Eden Brown Limited is a limited company registered in England and Wales with registered number 3643845. Our registered address is 5th floor 4 Coleman Street, London, EC2R 5AR, part of nGAGE Specialist Recruitment Limited T/A nGAGE Talent. Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. This message is intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to us, and immediately and permanently delete it. Do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. We take reasonable precautions to ensure no viruses are present in this email but cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage sustained as a result of computer viruses and the recipient must ensure that the email (and attachments) are virus free.

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SEND Transformation Lead

(Statutory Services Implementation & Change)

Position Summary

The SEND Transformation Lead will play a pivotal role in supporting and embedding transformational change across SEND services, with a primary focus on the stabilisation and improvement of the restructured Statutory SEND Teams.

The post holder will provide operational leadership and change management expertise to ensure that new structures, processes and ways of working are effectively implemented and embedded, leading to sustainable improvements in performance, quality, and outcomes for children and young people with SEND.

While the core emphasis of the role is supporting the statutory restructure, the post holder will also contribute to other SEND transformation and service development activity as required, in response to emerging priorities.


Key Responsibilities


Statutory SEND Restructure & Implementation

Lead and support the implementation of the restructured Statutory SEND Teams, ensuring new roles, responsibilities, workflows and interfaces are clearly defined, communicated and embedded.
Provide practical leadership through periods of change, supporting managers and practitioners to transition confidently into new ways of working.
Act as a central point of coordination between statutory teams, senior leaders and partner services during and following the restructure.


Process, Practice and Quality Improvement

Review, revise and implement standard operating procedures (SOPs), policies and guidance relating to Statutory SEND functions, ensuring consistency, clarity and compliance with statutory duties.
Embed robust EHCP quality assurance processes across the Statutory SEND Teams, ensuring improved consistency, quality and timeliness of decision?making.
Provide expert advice, guidance and direction on complex EHCP and statutory casework, using learning from individual cases to inform improvements in practice and process.

Performance, Data and Ways of Working

Review how data is used across the Statutory SEND Teams to monitor performance, identify pressure points and drive improvement.
Develop and embed revised ways of working that improve timeliness, quality and accountability, particularly in relation to EHCP processes and Annual Reviews.
Support managers to use data effectively to manage teams, improve outcomes and evidence progress.


Change Management, Team Development & Collaboration

Provide direct change management support, including team building, problem?solving, and addressing barriers to implementation following restructure.
Strengthen collaborative working across SEND services and with wider partners, ensuring joined?up delivery and shared ownership of outcomes.


Wider Transformation Activity

Contribute to broader SEND transformation and SEND Reforms development work where required, including preparation for inspection activity, service reviews and improvement programmes.


Person Specification

Essential Criteria

Significant experience of working within SEND services, with strong understanding of statutory SEND processes.
Demonstrable experience of leading or supporting service restructure, including the implementation of new processes, procedures and ways of working.
Proven experience of change management in complex operational environments, with the ability to embed change and support teams through transition.
Strong understanding of SEND legislation, the SEND Code of Practice and statutory duties, with the ability to apply this knowledge in practice.
Experience of reviewing, developing and implementing policies, SOPs and quality assurance processes.
Ability to analyse and embed the use of performance data across SEND teams to drive accountability, track improvements and inform decision?making.
Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to work effectively with practitioners, managers, senior leaders and partners.
Strong problem?solving skills and the ability to provide authoritative guidance on complex casework.
Educated to degree level or equivalent, with a commitment to continuous professional development.

Eden Brown Synergy is an equal opportunities employer.

Eden Brown Limited is a limited company registered in England and Wales with registered number 3643845. Our registered address is 5th floor 4 Coleman Street, London, EC2R 5AR, part of nGAGE Specialist Recruitment Limited T/A nGAGE Talent. Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. This message is intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to us, and immediately and permanently delete it. Do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. We take reasonable precautions to ensure no viruses are present in this email but cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage sustained as a result of computer viruses and the recipient must ensure that the email (and attachments) are virus free.

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We are seeking an experienced EHCP Case Officer to join our busy Assessment Team in Newham.
* Location: Newham (1 day per week in office)
* Rate: £300 per day UMBRELLA
* Duration: 3 months (initial contract)
You will manage a caseload of EHC needs assessments, ensuring statutory compliance, high-quality plans, and strong multi-agency working to achieve the best outcomes for children and young people.
Requirements:
* Proven EHCP assessment experience
* Strong knowledge of SEND legislation and statutory timelines
* Ability to work at pace and manage complex cases
Immediate start preferred.

Eden Brown Synergy is an equal opportunities employer.

Eden Brown Limited is a limited company registered in England and Wales with registered number 3643845. Our registered address is 5th floor 4 Coleman Street, London, EC2R 5AR, part of nGAGE Specialist Recruitment Limited T/A nGAGE Talent. Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. This message is intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to us, and immediately and permanently delete it. Do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. We take reasonable precautions to ensure no viruses are present in this email but cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage sustained as a result of computer viruses and the recipient must ensure that the email (and attachments) are virus free.

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