u/EnvironmentalWolf567

Hey guys! You’ve been so helpful in the past so I wanted to post here and ask for help! I’ve been invited for an interview with my LA for the above position.

The email states: “Your interview will include a 30 minute written assessment, details of this will be provided on the day, followed by a 1 hour face-to-face interview.”

I’ve interviewed three times with this LA and have been unsuccessful each time.

This area of social work is the area I’m experienced in. What can I expect in my interview? Other than the obvious, what questions should I prepare in advance?

Edit to add: this is my first social worker position interview so all advice is welcome.

Thank you so much for all the time you guys have spent supporting me. I owe each of you a cold one when I finally land a job! Blessings.

Hey guys! I was approved by Social Work England and am now registered. I’ve been scanning this group and wanted to ask for advice. I have seven years of experience working with children and families but I’ve attended several interviews with our local council and have been rejected (this was prior to registration approval and not for social work level roles). I’ve spent the past two days applying for social work roles but since I’m newly qualified in England - am I looking for level 1 roles? If so, where else can I search for jobs?

I’ve applied on our local council website
I’ve applied to the NHS

area: Lincolnshire or surrounding cities

Does anyone have any advice or leads? Thank you so much!

PS: I do have a valid right to work through 2030 and this is easily located on my resume

I wanted to share my journal entry with you guys. I’m a military spouse and I’m so very proud of this fact. However, Willing and Able has hit me so deeply that I found myself sobbing last night, writing the below. You don’t have to agree with it. The beauty of music is even if my take on the song isn’t what you think it means or what Noah says it means… that isn’t the point, ya know?

There’s a line running through “Willing and Able” that I can’t shake. It’s the space between wanting to show up fully for someone and quietly wondering if you actually have the capacity to.

I think that’s why it’s hitting me the way it is.

Being a military spouse has taught me how to be both deeply committed and deeply alone at the same time.

I am willing, I always have been. Willing to love through distance, to build a life that keeps shifting, to hold things together when everything feels uncertain. But being able… that’s the part no one really talks about.

Because “able” isn’t just about effort.
It’s about emotional bandwidth.
It’s about how much you can carry before something in you gets tired.
It’s about learning how to function independently for so long that connection itself can start to feel unfamiliar.

There’s a specific kind of loneliness in this life that’s hard to explain. Not because I’m unloved, but because so much of it is lived alone.

The day-to-day.
The hard moments.
The quiet ones.
You adapt to it… you get strong at it… but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t cost something.

And I think that’s what this song captures so well.

Not failure. Not a lack of love. Just the quiet, complicated truth that sometimes you can be doing your best and still feel like there’s a gap between what you want to give and what you can actually sustain.

I am willing. I’ve always been willing.

But some days, I feel the weight of trying to be able, too.

Thank you, Noah for allowing me to FEEL this chapter of my life. Sometimes, I don’t allow myself to do that.

Isn’t music beautiful, guys?

Hey guys- as the above states, I have an interview tomorrow with Lincolnshire City Council for the SEND assistant caseworker role. This will be my first council interview and I’m an international applicant. What questions should I expect in my 75 minute interview? Many thanks for your kindness ❤️