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About the Role
The team plays a vital role in enabling safe, timely discharges from hospital settings by working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary framework. Empower residents with the tools, confidence, and support needed to transition back into their home environment. The role focuses on maximizing each resident’s opportunity to return home and live as independently as possible by building on existing support networks and strengthening community connections. This involves supporting residents in living fulfilling, independent lives and achieving the best possible outcomes. The role requires social workers committed to building on residents’ strengths and natural support networks, believing in giving residents choice and control over their lives, especially during recovery. You will hold a varied caseload, completing assessments (MCA, human rights, NRTPF), working with homeless residents, managing complex dynamics, and addressing safeguarding concerns.
Responsibilities
- Engage with individuals, carers, families, groups and communities to assess and intervene preventatively using professional judgment, and develop person-led Support Plans to meet the needs of individuals that promote choice, control and independence.
- Use a strength-based approach to assessment to support individuals to identify and develop their support networks and consider positive risk taking to enhance their wellbeing.
- Identify safeguarding concerns if vulnerable residents have experienced harm and carry out section 42 enquiries where needed.
- Deliver high-quality and legally compliant social support in a timely way to agreed standards.
- Complete court fit mental capacity assessments and engage the resident and their families in any best interest decision where appropriate.
Requirements
- Previous experience in working in adult social care, or transferable skills to meet the needs of this post.
- Current registration with Social Work England and provide your registration number.
- Satisfactory employment references and CIFAS identity checks.
- Satisfactory declaration of interest.
- Satisfactory DBS check.
- Continued professional body registration.
- Fluent English speaking ability for public-facing roles.
- Must already hold a form of UK work authorization that does not require sponsorship.
Skills
- Professional judgment
- Strength-based approach
- Positive risk taking
- Safeguarding
- Mental capacity assessments
- Communication
Location
- London Borough of Waltham Forest
Work Type
- Full Time
- Permanent
- Occasional weekend and Bank Holiday working
Experience Level
- Adult social care experience
Education Level
- Social Work England registration
Salary/Compensations
- PO1 - PO4 £41,133 - £52,194
Benefits
- £2,000 retention bonus paid in £1000, twice a year.
About the Company
- Bursting with culture, energy, and opportunity, the London Borough of Waltham Forest is a fantastic and exciting place to work.
- A highly ambitious borough driven by culture and the innate creativity of its residents, developing new and innovative ways to build communities.
- A relentlessly resident-focused, insight-led, digitally driven and commercially minded Council focused on meeting the needs of existing and future residents.
- An accredited Mayor of London’s Good Work Standard employer, committed to creating a healthy, fair and inclusive workplace with fair pay and conditions, workplace well-being, skills and progression, and diversity and recruitment.
Equal Opportunity
- Waltham Forest is a diverse borough where diversity is valued and is integral to both service delivery and employment.
- The Council is proud of its rich mix of communities and works hard to respond to changing needs.
- Uses statutory duties on race, gender and disability equality and best practice in respect of age, faith and sexual orientation to ensure equality of opportunity.
- Committed to meeting 4 equality objectives: Promoting equality of opportunity, Opposing all forms of discrimination, intolerance and disadvantage, Ensuring workforce reflects diverse communities at all levels, Providing fair, appropriate, accessible and excellent Services to all.
- Respecting Diversity is a core Council value.
- Operates an anonymous shortlisting process to reduce the risk of bias.
- Operates a scheme whereby internal candidates are considered first for jobs graded up to and including scale SO2.
- Considers working arrangements that suit individual's personal circumstances wherever possible.
- Encourages discussion of flexible working options.