Social Worker

Job description

Contract Terms

Contract Type: Full -Time, Permanent
Salary: PO2-PO4 £41,442 – £50,574 per annum + £1,000 Market Supplement
Interview: 3rd & 4th July 2025
Closing Date: Sunday 15th June 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

To carry out Care Act assessments, devise care and support plans with service-users and their carers and undertake reviews under the Care Act or equivalent. To undertake carers assessments/reviews, safeguarding enquires. To support people who present with functional and/or organic mental health problems in Haringey by using community resources and the social care budget to meet their needs. To apply a strengths-based approach to working with service-users and their carers providing evidence based therapeutic social work practice and skills such as motivational interviewing, trauma informed care and psychoeducation. To provide service users and their carers with clear and intelligible information which will assist them in making informed decisions about their treatment and care. To provide effective liaison with colleagues in primary care, social services, community health and voluntary organisations and champion people’s rights and entitlements in the wider mental health of older adult services. To provide guidance to the rest of the team on applying the Care Act and other mental health and social care legislation and to prepare appropriate information/referrals/reports to access community resources. To work closely with other members of the multi-disciplinary team including psychology, occupational therapists, nurses, support workers, medical professionals and pharmacology to ensure that the best quality of care is provided and effective use of the social care budget. To be willing to train as an Approved Mental Health Professional, (AMHP) and once qualified to share knowledge and practice with the team and contribute to the AMHP rota. If required, to be willing to train as a Best Interest Assessor (BIA)/ Approved Mental Capacity Professional (AMCP) and once qualified to share knowledge and practice with the team and contribute to the AMCP rota.

About you

You will be based within the Central Locality Mental Health Team for people requiring Care Act assessment and currently in receipt of support via commissioned accommodation-based services. You will be confident in all aspects of social care legislation and the community resources people can access or be referred to in Haringey and You will have a confident approach to a range of health and social care records, processes and systems. All Social Workers based in mental health teams must be willing to train as AMHPs and will be supported in this as part of their career development plan and appraisal. Working in one of London’s liveliest and most culturally diverse boroughs, you will seek to maintain a strong partnership between London Borough of Haringey and North London Foundation NHS Trust. In return you will enjoy high quality supervision, access to training courses in the Trust and Local Authority and a chance to make a real difference to people in Haringey. For an informal discussion please contact the Team Manager Rosemary Anetor-Alli; E-mail address: Rosemary.Anetor-Alli@haringey.gov.uk 

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 up to 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.

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