25 Council jobs in Banstead

About the Role
London Borough of Newham is seeking an experienced and highly motivated 'Commissioner - Education and Inclusion' to support the delivery of strategic commissioning activities within our Education Commissioning function. This role is instrumental in ensuring effective planning, procurement, monitoring, and review of education provision, including services for children and young people with SEND and Alternative Provision (AP) aged 0-25.
Reporting to the Assistant Director - SEND and Inclusion, you will work collaboratively across internal teams and with external stakeholders to drive forward commissioning priorities, support contract and performance management, and ensure services meet statutory responsibilities and provide high-quality outcomes.
This is a hybrid working role, requiring 1-2 days per week onsite in Newham, with the remainder remote.

Key Responsibilities
Deliver and support a range of education commissioning projects, aligned with statutory requirements and local strategic priorities.
Analyse and interpret complex data (e.g. service usage, needs assessments, costs, feedback) to inform commissioning decisions.
Lead or support performance and contract monitoring activities, identifying underperformance and areas for service improvement.
Assist in the development of service specifications, procurement documentation, and the evaluation of tenders for new or revised education services.
Maintain robust commissioning processes and governance frameworks including quality assurance and financial compliance.
Engage with children, young people, families, schools, providers, and multi-agency stakeholders to understand service needs and experiences.
Work across departments including legal, finance, procurement, education, health, and social care to coordinate commissioning activity and ensure compliance.
Conduct market and provider analysis to ensure the sustainability and suitability of local education provision.
Stay up to date with national policy, legislative changes, and best practice to inform continuous service development.
Prepare and present concise reports, briefings, and dashboards to managers and elected members.
Champion equality, diversity, and inclusion in all commissioning work and uphold the Council's values and behaviours.
Person Specification

Essential Skills and Experience:
Proven experience in education, health, or social care commissioning, contract management, and procurement processes.
Strong understanding of SEND and Alternative Provision frameworks and relevant statutory guidance.
Excellent analytical skills with the ability to manipulate, interpret and present data clearly to various audiences.
Experience of project or programme management, including planning, coordination, delivery and evaluation.
Strong communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
Demonstrable experience of working in multi-agency environments, particularly across education, health, and care.
Ability to work effectively using Office 365 tools including Word, Excel, Teams, and SharePoint.

If you are interested in this role please send your updated CV in the first instance.

Senior Social Worker – Looked After Children Team -  £39.04 per hour
Sutton Borough Council

• £9.04 per hour
li>Senior Social Worker post in the Looked After Children Team
• Hybrid working model with office presence
• Supportive and progressive borough

Sutton Borough Council is seeking an experienced Senior Social Worker to join their dedicated Looked After Children team. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a service committed to providing stability, permanency, and positive outcomes for children and young people in care.

About the Authority:
Sutton Borough Council is well-regarded for its strong focus on staff wellbeing, professional development, and collaborative working culture. The borough places children at the heart of practice and provides social workers with access to reflective supervision, ongoing training, and a supportive team environment. Working in Sutton means contributing to a community that values innovation, inclusivity, and delivering outstanding services for children and families.

Key Responsibilities:

• Hold a caseload of Looked After Children, ensuring their safety, stability, and wellbeing
• Undertake statutory visits, pathway planning, and permanency work in line with legislation
• Build strong relationships with children, carers, and families to ensure their voices are heard
• Prepare high-quality assessments and reports for reviews, panels, and court proceedings
• Mentor and support less experienced colleagues, contributing to team learning and development

Candidate Requirements:

• Social Work England registration
• Significant post-qualified experience in Looked After Children or Safeguarding teams
• Strong assessment, report-writing, and communication skills
• Ability to work effectively in a multi-agency context
• Commitment to promoting the rights and best outcomes for children and young people

Why Work With Us:

• 9.04 per hour
• Hybrid working model with regular office-based collaboration
• Supportive management and reflective supervision
• Opportunities for training and career progression
• Join a forward-thinking authority focused on achieving the best for children in care

Contact:  Josh Dhumisani
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• To be able to support and attend the meeting such as ICPC, Placement Panel Meeting, chair professionals meetings on behalf of the SW's where needed or in the absence of the TL/PM.
• To support/ guide the staff with the court cases where appropriate.
• To support the team leader/practice manager as needed to undertake senior social work tasks such as support with managing duty and assisting less experienced staff, this may include supervisory tasks, support with case direction, joint visits to families and co working cases.
• To manage a complex case load, have clear threshold decision making skills, promote good quality social work across the team and to contribute to the learning culture
• Provide reliable effective social work help and intervention to safeguard and promote the welfare of children in need so that children maintain a reasonable standard of health and development, receive reasonable parenting, and have a sense of permanence. Where a child is disabled take action to minimise the effect of their disabilities so they have the opportunity to lead lives as normal a life as possible.
• Identify consistently in a timely way where children are unable to live at home, take action to secure permanence for them within a timescale that meets their needs. Where children are looked after address their needs in accordance with their care plan or pathway plan, so that they make progress and have every opportunity to fulfil their potential as adults.
• Show consistent effective child centred practice with children at the centre of professional assessment, planning, intervention and review activity, and their views and wishes (appropriate to their age and understanding) are sought and used to understand the child's world and shape the level of intervention and type of help offered.
• Provide effective professional leadership so that professionals work together to meet the needs of children in need, including those with a child protection plan, privately fostered children, and looked after children and care leavers.
• Work with parents / carers to strengthen protective factors and reduce risks to the child's welfare, where seeking to establishing rapport and trust as a basis for parents changing their behaviour so that the child receives safe reasonable parenting, or where parental cooperation is not forthcoming and there is no other way of safeguarding the child, pursue alternative arrangements for the child's upbringing.
• Work with foster carers, special guardians, prospective adopters and other people who are looking after someone else's children, so that children's needs are met and that they are able to live as normal a life as possible, understand their journey to their placement, are making good progress in terms of their health, development and education, and are prepared for their transition to adult life.

Caritas Recruitment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Experienced Planning Policy Team leader required Local plan-making and London Plan experience essential.

The role will involve the commissioning and project management of technical evidence base workstreams, writing briefs and a variety of reports.

This is to support the scoping and development of the new Local Plan.

Desirable areas of expertise include Housing, Infrastructure delivery and Employment and Retail.

London Plan experience essential

Will involve some supervision of junior staff. Office presence at least 2days days a week preferably 3 central London location. ; London plan experience, experience of managing staff Initial 6 month contract with potential to extend

If you are interested in this role please send your updated CV in the first instance.

Senior Social Worker – Looked After Children Team -  £39.04 per hour
Sutton Borough Council

• £9.04 per hour
li>Senior Social Worker post in the Looked After Children Team
• Hybrid working model with office presence
• Supportive and progressive borough

Sutton Borough Council is seeking an experienced Senior Social Worker to join their dedicated Looked After Children team. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a service committed to providing stability, permanency, and positive outcomes for children and young people in care.

About the Authority:
Sutton Borough Council is well-regarded for its strong focus on staff wellbeing, professional development, and collaborative working culture. The borough places children at the heart of practice and provides social workers with access to reflective supervision, ongoing training, and a supportive team environment. Working in Sutton means contributing to a community that values innovation, inclusivity, and delivering outstanding services for children and families.

Key Responsibilities:

• Hold a caseload of Looked After Children, ensuring their safety, stability, and wellbeing
• Undertake statutory visits, pathway planning, and permanency work in line with legislation
• Build strong relationships with children, carers, and families to ensure their voices are heard
• Prepare high-quality assessments and reports for reviews, panels, and court proceedings
• Mentor and support less experienced colleagues, contributing to team learning and development

Candidate Requirements:

• Social Work England registration
• Significant post-qualified experience in Looked After Children or Safeguarding teams
• Strong assessment, report-writing, and communication skills
• Ability to work effectively in a multi-agency context
• Commitment to promoting the rights and best outcomes for children and young people

Why Work With Us:

• 9.04 per hour
• Hybrid working model with regular office-based collaboration
• Supportive management and reflective supervision
• Opportunities for training and career progression
• Join a forward-thinking authority focused on achieving the best for children in care

Contact:  Josh Dhumisani
&#(phone number removed); (phone number removed)
&#(phone number removed); (url removed)

• To be able to support and attend the meeting such as ICPC, Placement Panel Meeting, chair professionals meetings on behalf of the SW's where needed or in the absence of the TL/PM.
• To support/ guide the staff with the court cases where appropriate.
• To support the team leader/practice manager as needed to undertake senior social work tasks such as support with managing duty and assisting less experienced staff, this may include supervisory tasks, support with case direction, joint visits to families and co working cases.
• To manage a complex case load, have clear threshold decision making skills, promote good quality social work across the team and to contribute to the learning culture
• Provide reliable effective social work help and intervention to safeguard and promote the welfare of children in need so that children maintain a reasonable standard of health and development, receive reasonable parenting, and have a sense of permanence. Where a child is disabled take action to minimise the effect of their disabilities so they have the opportunity to lead lives as normal a life as possible.
• Identify consistently in a timely way where children are unable to live at home, take action to secure permanence for them within a timescale that meets their needs. Where children are looked after address their needs in accordance with their care plan or pathway plan, so that they make progress and have every opportunity to fulfil their potential as adults.
• Show consistent effective child centred practice with children at the centre of professional assessment, planning, intervention and review activity, and their views and wishes (appropriate to their age and understanding) are sought and used to understand the child's world and shape the level of intervention and type of help offered.
• Provide effective professional leadership so that professionals work together to meet the needs of children in need, including those with a child protection plan, privately fostered children, and looked after children and care leavers.
• Work with parents / carers to strengthen protective factors and reduce risks to the child's welfare, where seeking to establishing rapport and trust as a basis for parents changing their behaviour so that the child receives safe reasonable parenting, or where parental cooperation is not forthcoming and there is no other way of safeguarding the child, pursue alternative arrangements for the child's upbringing.
• Work with foster carers, special guardians, prospective adopters and other people who are looking after someone else's children, so that children's needs are met and that they are able to live as normal a life as possible, understand their journey to their placement, are making good progress in terms of their health, development and education, and are prepared for their transition to adult life.

Caritas Recruitment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Experienced Planning Policy Team leader required Local plan-making and London Plan experience essential.

The role will involve the commissioning and project management of technical evidence base workstreams, writing briefs and a variety of reports.

This is to support the scoping and development of the new Local Plan.

Desirable areas of expertise include Housing, Infrastructure delivery and Employment and Retail.

London Plan experience essential

Will involve some supervision of junior staff. Office presence at least 2days days a week preferably 3 central London location. ; London plan experience, experience of managing staff Initial 6 month contract with potential to extend

If you are interested in this role please send your updated CV in the first instance.