Social Work Officer (Learning Disabilities)

Job description

Contract Terms

Grade: PO1
Salary: £38,934 – £40,755 per annum
Contract Type: Full Time, Permanent (36 Hours per week)
Closing Date: Sunday 27th April 2025
Interview Date: Week commencing 5th May 2025

About Haringey

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.
Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

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.
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!

About the Team

You will be joining the Central Locality, within the Learning Disability Team.
The Central Locality has three other teams within the Locality: the Front Door, the Adult Assessment Team and the Mental Health Team.
All elements of the Locality work together to ensure that the residents receive the best possible service.
Within the Learning Disability Team you will be responsible for residents with a Learning Disability. You will work alongside clinicians and other Social Workers to support these residents in meeting their Care Act eligible outcomes. This will mean being able to work with other professionals, such as Education Settings, Children and Families Services, Housing, Advocacy partners and others.

About You

This is an exciting opportunity to work with residents of the Central Locality in Haringey.
The correct candidate will have good listening skills, work efficiently and be motivated to empower our residents to achieve their Care Act eligible outcomes. Ideally, you will have experience and knowledge of the reasonable adjustments and abilities required to work with residents who have a Learning Disability.
You will be the allocated worker for a number of residents, supporting them to complete Care Act Assessments, Support Plans and Support Plan Reviews. Where possible you will provide information and advice about other services that would support the residents wellbeing and signpost to other agencies when required.
You will be welcomed into a warm and friendly team of professionals with a mixed level of experience and qualifications.
You will work alongside your manager to identify your own development goals and plan how these can be supported.

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

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 ethnicities 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 wellbeing 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.

Please note: we reserve the right to end this advert before the noted deadline if we receive sufficient applications. If you wish to apply for this role, please ensure that you do so as soon as possible. Additionally, we are aware that automated emails may be diverted through to junk email folders.  Please continue to check these through the application process.  If you have any questions about the status of your application, please contact ResourcingHub@haringey.gov.uk