West Assessment Senior Practitioner

Job description

Contract terms

Starting salary: PO5 (£52,194 – £55,323)
Work location: 48 Station Road, Wood Green, London, N22 7TY
Hours per week: 36 per week
Contract type: Permanent  
Closing date: Sunday, 23rd August 2026 at 23:59
Expected interview date: W/c 31st August 2026

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 looking for an experienced and passionate Senior Practitioner to join our Adults Social Services team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in driving practice excellence, supporting service improvement and helping prepare the service for regulatory inspection. Working closely with the Principal Social Worker and Team Managers, you will champion strengths-based, person-centred practice across Adult Social Care, lead quality assurance initiatives, facilitate professional forums and workshops and contribute to the development of policies, procedures and workforce learning programmes. You will also take a lead role in supporting newly qualified social workers and developing apprenticeship pathways to strengthen the future workforce

About the team

Our Adults, Health and Communities Directorate is committed to helping residents achieve the best possible outcomes through innovative, strengths-based social work practice. You will work alongside Principal Social Workers, Heads of Service, Team Managers, Workforce Development colleagues and social care practitioners across Adult Services. The team is focused on continuous improvement, collaboration and professional development, creating an environment where learning, quality assurance and best practice are at the heart of everything we do

About you

You will be a qualified Social Worker (Degree, DipSW or equivalent) registered with Social Work England, with substantial post-qualification experience demonstrating expertise in strengths-based practice. You will have a strong understanding of the legislative and statutory frameworks that underpin Adult Social Care, experience of supporting and developing practitioners and the confidence to lead discussions, deliver workshops and influence practice improvement across services. Essential to success in this role is your ability to build effective relationships, identify opportunities for service improvement, communicate clearly with a range of stakeholders, produce high-quality reports and manage competing priorities effectively. You will also be skilled in using IT systems and data responsibly and committed to delivering high standards of professional practice and outcomes for adults

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