Social Work Officer

Job description

Contract Terms

Contract Type: Full-Time, Permanent  

Salary: PO1 £37,443 – £39,264 per annum

Closing Date: Sunday 5^th May 2024

About Haringey

Haringey Council is one of 32 in London. Haringey is an extremely diverse borough, and the Council has set clear ambitious objectives through its borough plan to make Haringey a better place to live, encourage investment and create opportunities that all can share. Haringey’s vision for the future is one of sustainable growth, in housing and jobs and on helping our residents and businesses take advantage of that growth. We have got huge ambitions for Haringey. As the shape of local government continues to change, we are determined to rise to the challenge and find new ways to ensure that our residents enjoy the best opportunities in life. Working at Haringey gives you the opportunity to play a part in meeting those ambitions on behalf of everyone who calls the borough their home.

About the role

We are aiming to significantly improve the well-being, opportunity and independence of Haringey residents through our strengths-based model of practice. We are building an approach where all parts of the Adults, Health and Communities department feel connected to one another and, through locality working, foster stronger working relationships with our residents and partners.

We want to have the most skilled and motivated workforce who both support our vision and are empowered to play their part in delivering it in the localities. To support this goal, we have developed new Social Work Officer roles to work with vulnerable adults across the borough. These roles will be part of our social work teams. Duties will include assessment, review and development of support plans that enable residents and their carers to maximise their independence, build on their strengths and improve their quality of life. These roles will also assist social workers in managing more complex cases and will work closely with our partners in developing strong relationships and supporting creative new ways of ensuring outcomes are met.

These roles as an exciting development and we are looking to attract applicants who share our vision and can evidence their commitment to working with vulnerable people – this may have been gained across a range of different work and life settings.

The Social Work Officer role(s) will provide an essential part of the strengths-based offer to Haringey residents. The role will provide key statutory functions under the Care Act 2014 with Social Work Officers undertaking assessment, reviews, support planning and ensuring that we maximise the independence and quality of life of those that we are supporting. These roles provide the opportunity for successful candidates to undertake a social work degree apprenticeship where they have demonstrated the required values, behaviours and outputs.

About you

We want to attract talented people for whom these roles represent a new or long awaited opportunity to extend or build new areas of expertise in Adult Social Care, and are to provide tangible examples for their experience that demonstrate they have what it takes to join our dedicated social work teams. Where successful candidates are interested in becoming qualified social workers we are keen to support them on to the apprenticeship degree course where the pre qualifying criteria are met and performance and development objectives as a social work officer are being met.

Applicants should provide bullet point examples which demonstrate they have the qualities we are looking for and are set out in the person specification for this role. We look forward to receiving your application!

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicity and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community. 

Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement of 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and well-being support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.