Dr Lee-Anne Farach, Director of People:
Let’s give young people the best start in life.
Thank you for your interest in children’s social worker opportunities with Medway Council.
I am proud to be the Director of People at Medway. Medway continues to put children at the centre of everything we do. We strive to ensure children have a good early years’ experience and are offered age-appropriate services through our Family Solutions service. Our education sector offers a great learning experience to our children and young people and our youth service provides innovative solutions. We are committed to supporting our most vulnerable children be that working with our partners to ensure the health and wellbeing of our younger residents or through the special education needs and disability offer – all of this adds up to Medway being a truly Child Friendly place.
We have accelerated with our improvements following our Ofsted inspection in July 2019. We have had four monitoring visits from Ofsted, all stating that Medway knows itself well.
The leadership and management of Medway Children’s Services is committed to excellence and a strength-based model of social work practice. It is by focussing on the strengths of our children and young people and supporting good social work practice, that Medway has come so far on its improvement journey.
Medway is an exciting place to work and will offer you a range of challenges and experiences. We offer an excellent recruitment package, manageable workloads, a comprehensive learning and development programme and opportunities to progress your career with support from managers who have been supporting Medway’s most vulnerable children and families for many years.
Donna Marriott, Assistant Director, Children’s Services:
It’s a fantastic time to join us – we are a small authority where you will feel connected to the service and the senior leadership team.
Our vision and values put children at the heart of everything we do. We are working with the children and young people of Medway to develop the child-friendly Medway initiative and ensure that all children have the opportunity to grow, learn and develop.
We are a small local authority where you will feel connected to the service and the senior leadership team. We have invested significantly in our services and fully embedded Signs of Safety across the service.
We would love you to come and join us. You will not only be part of transforming our services, you will be changing the lives of children and young people.