Social Worker – Assessment

Job description

Contract Terms

Contract Type: Full -Time, Permanent
Salary: PO2-PO4 £42,771 – £52,194 per annum + £1,000 Market Supplement
Interview: w/c 29th September 2025
Closing Date: Sunday 14th September 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

As a Social Worker at Haringey Council, you’ll have the opportunity to work with adults, their families, and carers to assess needs and provide support that promotes independence, wellbeing, and dignity. Your work will focus on enabling residents to live fulfilling lives by identifying strengths, coordinating appropriate services, and ensuring their voices are central to decision-making. This role will be based within the Adult Assessment Team.

At Haringey Council, we are committed to fostering a positive, inclusive, and supportive work culture. You’ll benefit from regular supervision, access to experienced managers, and a collaborative team environment that values your professional judgment, contributions, and ideas.

Haringey Council is forward-thinking and constantly seeking new ways to improve practice. You’ll be part of a progressive service that embraces creativity, technology, and innovation to achieve the best outcomes for adults in the community.

The role requires hybrid working to allow staff to carry out assessments, facilitate face-to-face visits, and ensure effective multi-agency collaboration when supporting residents.

About you

You’ll be a qualified and registered Social Worker with a strong commitment to promoting the independence, wellbeing, and rights of adults. You will have a good understanding of the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005, and other key legislation, alongside knowledge of strengths-based and person-centred approaches to assessment and care planning.

You’ll bring excellent communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to work collaboratively with adults, carers, families, and partner agencies. You’ll be confident in balancing care and support with safeguarding responsibilities, ensuring that residents’ voices are heard while risks are appropriately managed.

We’re looking for someone who is reflective, resilient, and solution-focused, with the ability to manage a varied caseload and make sound professional judgments under pressure. You will also be committed to ongoing learning and development, actively contributing to our supportive and inclusive team culture.

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.

Additionally, we are aware that automated emails may end 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 you application please contact ResourcingHub@haringey.gov.uk