UK Social Work, Probation and Youth Justice jobs

Are you looking for a UK Social Worker job, a UK Probation Officer job or a UK youth offending team job? If you are searching for these types of job from outside the UK you have come to the specialist UK recruitment agency for these areas. We are on the lookout for high quality international candidates as we have placed many overseas practitioners in Social Work, Youth Offending Teams and Probation jobs.

If you feel that you would like to try your hand at working in the UK why not drop us an email to discuss the possibilities? We will provide you with details of the types of UK jobs that are available as well as helping you plan your trip over to the UK.

Alternatively you can search for yourself the current vacancies to get an idea of the type of positions that are available.

Visas

Different countries have different arrangements with the UK government as to working visas so a good first stop would be to go to the UK government’s website http://www.ukvisas.gov.uk

If you are a citizen of Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada, and other Commonwealth countries you can come over on a Working Holiday Visa. You can get more info from the same website.

To register with Backstop for UK social work, youth justice, YOT and probation jobs

You will need to provide us with the following paperwork:

• An up-to-date CV which you can email to us detailing all relevant experience including dates and locations. Here are some tips on how UK employers expect CVs to be laid out.
• Copies of your qualification and GSCC verification or GSCC registration as applicable if you are a qualified social worker. Please note that from April 1st 2005 you will only be able to practice as a Social Worker in the UK with a GSCC registration certificate.
• You will need to have a recent (within the last 3 months) police check from your home country or from the British Criminal Records Bureau.
• If you have any original copies of references these can help to support your application whilst we collect references ourselves.

If you have any questions about the above please do not hesitate to contact us.