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Social Worker

TCES Create in the Community

Newham

  • £38,000 - £41,600 per year
  • Quick apply
  • Expired
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Apply by:
11 February 2023

Job overview

Teach. Champion. Empower. Safeguard

Salary: £51,000 to £53,500 per annum

Location: Create in the Community, main hub (E16) and other community learning settings.

Contract: Permanent, Full-time


We are seeking an experienced and qualified Social Worker to manage a highly complex caseload, hold responsibility for coordinating multiagency liaison and assessments, and lead on safeguarding. This role will support our pupils and their families to achieve success through our Families and Schools Together (FaST) programme, providing positive and collaborative working relationships through family liaison, direct family work and partnerships.

The Complete Education Solution (TCES)

TCES is an independent social enterprise, providing specialist education based in London supporting exceptional neurodiverse children and young people aged 7 to 19 who have special educational needs and disabilities typically associated with autism, social emotional and mental health needs and associated disorders. Most of them will have experienced multiple placement breakdowns and significant trauma, often resulting in behaviour that challenges. On average pupils will have been excluded from other provisions up to three times before reaching us and had significant periods out of education. 

TCES pupils learn at one of our two schools, Create in the Community service or within our Home Learning service; Create in the Community and Create Learning Primary support our most complex and vulnerable pupils, with TCES East London and TCES North West London supporting those who are able to access learning within a school environment. When they are ready, we aim for pupils to step down from Create into one of our main schools, TCES Sixth Form, and mainstream provision.

TCES Create in the Community deliver bespoke learning and therapeutic interventions to neurodiverse pupils, who have a range of complex needs, and who demonstrate behaviours linked to tier 3 / 4 traumas. Pupils are encouraged to find and express their creativity and provided opportunities to achieve awards, alongside traditional subjects, as they move from dependence on others to independence through intensive therapeutic interventions.


Essential requirements to be successful in the role are:

  • Qualified Social Worker (with Social Work England registration).
  • Experience of managing neurodiverse young people, including those with ASC and/or SEMH, with an understanding of the implications for communication, learning and behaviour patterns.
  • Experience of coordinating pupil centred assessments, liaising with multi-disciplinary teams and external stakeholders (Team around the Child).
  • Resilient, committed and a hard worker - able to keep going in the face of adversity and never giving up.
  • Experience of leading, supervising and developing a team of peripatetic practitioners.


In return we offer:

  • Competitive salary, terms and conditions, school holidays and consistent monthly pay.
  • An opportunity to make a real difference and join a leading provider of specialist education, directly contributing towards positive outcomes for pupils with SEMH and ASC.
  • Excellent CPD opportunities with all staff provided an individual Learning & Development Plan to support career development, including education qualifications at all levels (QTS / QTLS / NPQs) and options to take progressive Ofqual registered Level 3 – 5 qualifications in Therapeutic Education.
  • Comprehensive induction process, including all pupil-facing staff supported in receiving the Level 3 Award in Therapeutic Education and Group Process.
  • Regular half termly staff wellbeing days.
  • A range of employee support and wellbeing benefits including our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), counselling and contributions towards medical costs and an exclusive rewards platform.


Closing date 11 February 2023

To apply:

To apply, please complete an application here. For more information please contact recruitment@tces.org.uk

TCES is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils and expects all staff to share this commitment. The appointment is subject to all relevant checks such as references, medical clearance and a satisfactory enhanced DBS disclosure.

The Complete Education Solution is an equal opportunity employer.

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About TCES Create in the Community

The Complete Education Solution (TCES) is an independent social enterprise, providing specialist therapeutic education based in London supporting exceptional neurodiverse children and young people aged 7 to 19 who have special educational needs and disabilities typically associated with autism, social emotional and mental health needs and associated disorders. Most of them will have experienced multiple placement breakdowns and significant trauma, often resulting in behaviour that challenges. On average pupils will have been excluded from other provisions up to three times before reaching us and had significant periods out of education. We are committed to achieving the best outcome for each pupil and their family through access to excellent education and family support.

TCES Create in the Community runs parallel to our independent day schools. Here education focuses on the developmental milestones and a holistic curriculum. Every pupil goes through a different journey with Create in the Community, with highly differentiated and personalised education programmes developed for each pupil who need intensive support as part of our ‘step down’ mode.

On joining us, pupils will have already – on average – experienced three permanent exclusions, been out of full-time education for up to 18 months and are recognised to be substantially at risk of being unemployed, developing severe mental health problems and involvement with the criminal justice system later in life. Between 3 and 5 years after leaving a TCES school or service, 90% of our students are in education, training or employment.

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