Social Worker Progressed (Pre Birth Team)

Newcastle City Council; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Newcastle City Council’s Safeguarding and Family Services are recruiting a Progressed Social Worker to support the Pre-Birth Team. You will undertake holistic assessments, work with pregnant families, and coordinate with social workers, family support workers, and partners to safeguard children.

You will contribute to evidence-based decision making, provide goal-oriented support, and engage with multidisciplinary teams to deliver timely, compassionate services that keep children safe.

Responsibilities

• Undertake holistic assessments of need and risk for pregnant parents in the Pre-Birth service.
• Provide goal-oriented support and coordinate with social workers, family support workers and partners to safeguard children.
• Contribute to robust pre-birth assessments to enable evidence-based decision making.

Job description

This is your moment. Shape the Future. Feel Supported. Belong in Newcastle.

Newcastle is more than a workplace - it’s a community. A vibrant, multicultural city where creativity, kindness, and resilience run deep. From the Quayside to Jesmond Dene, from Ouseburn’s indie cafés to our world class universities, this is a city that welcomes you and your ideas with open arms.

About the Role

We are recruiting to the exciting role ofProgressed Social Worker to support the Pre-Birth Team.

Our Safeguarding Service

The ambition for Child Protection in Newcastle is for families to receive the right support at the right time and at the first time from the right people to ensure children are kept safe. Child Protection is underpinned by relational practice between partner agencies and families. In Newcastle, we have established a Safeguarding Delivery Service and a Multiagency Child Protection Team which provides a seamless service when children are at risk of or have suffered significant harm.

Our Pre Birth Service

As part of our commitment to improve pre-birth practice in Newcastle, we are excited to recruit for a skilled, passionate and committed senior practitioner to complement our established and innovative pre-birth team. The team provides intensive support during pregnancy by completing holistic assessments of need and risk and providing specific, goal orientated support. Parents are supported to achieve and sustain change, enabling them to provide safe appropriate parenting.

The primary aim of the Pre-Birth Team is to support parents from the earliest opportunity so that they can safely care for their child from birth. This is done via intensive intervention from social workers, family support workers and other professionals. Robust pre-birth assessments are completed alongside this work to allow evidence-based decisions to be made.

We are passionate about achieving the best outcomes for the children in our city, and you should be too.

Why Newcastle, Why Now

We’re not just a local authority. We’re a city with ambition, heart, and a bold vision for children. At Children & Families Newcastle, we’re building something special: a service rooted in relationships, restorative practice, and real impact.

We’ve been judged Good with Outstanding areas by Ofsted — and we’re not stopping there. We’re working towards becoming a UNICEF Child Friendly City and a Marmot City, tackling inequality and putting children at the centre of everything we do.

Families First: Transforming How We Support Children and Families

Families First is designed to give children and families the right help at the right time and to make our practice more meaningful, relational, and effective. Through earlier intervention and prevention, our new Family Help teams step in at the right time, when families need support, helping them work through challenges they face. We’re breaking down traditional silos by bringing local authority services together with police, health, and education partners to create a single, seamless system of support.

Families are placed firmly in the lead through Family Led Decision Making now embedded as standard practice, ensuring their voices shape the decisions that matter most. We’re strengthening support networks so more children can remain safely at home, including increased support for kinship carers. Instead of “stop/start” involvement, families will experience consistent, long-term relationships with one Lead Practitioner walking alongside them throughout their journey. And when significant harm is present, our new multidisciplinary child protection teams provide expert, decisive intervention. Families First is about doing what works, earlier, together, and with families at the centre.

A Culture Where You Can Thrive

Our values are simple but powerful: Be safe. Be heard. Be innovative. Be supported.

We want Newcastle to be a place where people enjoy coming to work, where you feel able to talk openly when things are difficult, where your ideas matter, and where you’re encouraged to grow.

We invest in our people because we want them to stay, progress, and build long-term careers with us.

Our leadership team is visible, approachable, and deeply connected to the realities of frontline practice. They understand the pressures, celebrate the successes, and stand alongside you when challenges arise.

Flexibility That Works for Real Life

We know that great social work happens when people have balance, space, and trust. That’s why we offer: While many employers are pushing for a return to the office, we continue to recognise the value of working from home. Which means hybrid working that genuinely works - not just in name, meaning the freedom to avoid the rush hour or do the school run.

The ability to carry over up to one week’s worth of flexi with an allowance of two days a month to take off. A culture that recognises you’re a whole person, not just an employee.

A Connected, Supportive Workplace

Our teams are based in our locality bases in the heart of our communities and at Partnership House, a modern, collaborative space designed to support meaningful relationships and team connection.

You’ll also benefit from:

• Free parking at Partnership House
• Excellent transport links.Regent Centre Metro is a 5minute walk from the office, and it’s only 13 minutes into the city centre for after work plans.
• Pool car scheme
• NHS car fleet scheme

Benefits That Make a Real Difference

We want you to feel valued, not just in your work, but in your everyday life. Through our benefits package, you’ll have access to:

• Vivup discounts, including savings at major supermarkets
• Discounted gym memberships

A wide range of wellbeing, lifestyle, and financial support offers It’s all part of creating a workplace where you feel appreciated, supported, and part of something bigger.

A Community That Welcomes You

Newcastle is a city full of energy, warmth, and opportunity. A place where people look out for each other. A place where you can build a career, make a difference, and feel like you belong.

Grow your practice. Make a difference. Thrive in Newcastle.

This isn’t just another job. This is Newcastle.

Our Commitment

Newcastle City Council is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and to building services that reflect, value and respond to our communities. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds, and particularly from individuals whose identities or experiences are currently underrepresented in our workforce.

We recognise that this role involves sensitive and sometimes emotionally demanding work relating to racism and inequity. You will be supported through reflective spaces, supervision and team-based support tailored to your needs.

We are committed to protecting and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expect all staff to share this commitment. This post is working in regulated activity. If you are successful we will undertake additional recruitment checks which will include a check to see if you have had any criminal convictions, a check of police information and we will check the barred list(s). It is a criminal offence for a barred individual to apply for a job in regulated activity.