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Rewards and benefits
Discover what rewards and benefits are on offer for working with Barking & Dagenham Council.
Qualified Social Worker roles within Children’s Care and Support will receive a recruitment and retention allowance of £2,500 with your first salary payment and an annual £2,500 retention payment (terms and conditions apply).
Children’s Care and Support Market Supplement – to ensure salaries are comparable to market competitors and equitable amongst the wider Children’s Social Work market some Social Work roles have an additional market supplement payment. This is as per any notice on a job advertisement.
| Position name | Grade | Salary | Market Supplement (October 2020) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Worker | PO2 - PO3 | £35,496 - £41,586 | £1,900 |
| Consultant Social Worker | PO5 | £44,628 - £47,661 | £1,900 |
| Family Group Conference Coordinator | SO2 | £32,988 - £34,809 | £650 |
| Youth Offending Service, Senior Practitioner | PO4 | £41,586 - £44,628 | £900 |
| Senior Social Worker | PO4 | £41,586 - £44,628 | Year 1 - £900 Year - £1,900 |
| Team Manager | PO7 | £49,674 - £53,793 | Year 1 - £1,000 Year 2 - £2,000 |
*Consultant Social Workers receive the market supplement at each spinal column point. The other roles receive it after they have been at the top of the grade for a year and/or when they would be eligible for a further increment above the top of the scale.
Relocation package for Social Workers
We understand that leaving your current home and/or country can be a daunting experience. We offer a relocation package that includes up to £7,500 to help with moving costs. Terms and conditions apply.
It is a very exciting time to work in Barking and Dagenham! We are an award-winning Council and have just achieved the Gold Investors in People accreditation, demonstrating our investment in, and commitment to, our staff. We are also a Disability Confident and a Defence Employer Recognition Scheme employer.
All our jobs are open to flexible working, unless stated on the job advert.
Most employees are issued with a Council lap-top to enable them to work from different locations including home. Depending on the job role, you may work from home part or most of your working week and have some flexibility as to your working times.
Benefits of working for us
There are a range of benefits available to employees including:
Pay and conditions
- flexible working (including “condensed hours”, flexi-time, part and term-time working)
- up to 32 days annual leave
- Local Government Pension Scheme
- support for employees with caring responsibilities
- support for employees who are members of the armed forces reserves or adult cadet volunteers
- workplace adjustments for employees with a disability or long-term medical conditions
Health and wellbeing
- employee assistance programme
- health and wellbeing support (including heath checks, mental health and “revitalised” programme)
- individual health risk assessments as appropriate
- Occupational Health
Employee support networking groups
- EASE (Disability)
- Graduates and trainees
- LGBT+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual and Transgender)
- Maternity
- Menopause
- STARE (Standing Against Racism and Exclusion)
- Womens’
- Trade unions
Learning and development
- appraisals
- learning and development opportunities
- mentoring
Employee benefits
- credit union membership
- cycle purchase scheme
- discounted gym membership
- retail, holiday and travel discounts with our Wider Wallet scheme
- season ticket and travel loans