Social Worker - Children & Young Adults Disabilities Services (18-25)

Job Description

The London Borough of Harrow is seeking a dedicated Social Worker to join our Children & Young Adults 18–25 Disabilities Service. This role offers a significant opportunity to act as a vital bridge for young people and their families during the critical transition into adulthood. As the post holder, you will deliver a strengths-based service designed to empower individuals and their carers, ensuring they remain deeply connected to their local communities while maintaining maximum independence.

In this position, you will work collaboratively with young people to identify their personal goals and desired outcomes. Your focus will be on providing genuine choice and control over service delivery, ensuring all practice aligns with current legislation and local authority policy. Because this role operates within a complex landscape of support, exceptional communication skills are essential. You will be expected to work with a wide range of agencies in a multi-disciplinary way to ensure the seamless coordination and efficient delivery of services.

The successful candidate will be a flexible practitioner capable of working across the diverse geographical area of Harrow and supporting various teams within the directorate as required. As the role involves regular travel for business purposes to meet with service users and partners, a full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle are highly desirable. This is an impactful role for a professional committed to promoting the rights and independence of young adults with disabilities.

The successful candidate will have:

• A working knowledge of relevant legislation e.g., Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005 etc, government guidance regarding safeguarding etc and including welfare benefits.
• Knowledge of a range of interventions and services provided by social services and other agencies including the private and voluntary sector.
• Knowledge and understanding of discriminated against groups and the ability to ensure that services are appropriately delivered to meet their needs.
• Ability to achieve positive change through a strength- based approach to problem solving, whilst building empathic and supportive relationships with people and carers.
• Demonstrate an ability to structure own time and to prioritise competing demands to ensure all essential work is completed.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to produce and use workload information and acquire skills to use IT systems as available.
• Experience of working with people with physical/learning / sensory disabilities or older people and their carers.
• Appropriate qualification i.e.BA in Social Work, DIPSW, CQSW, CSS or equivalent.
• Registration with Social Work England.
• Willingness and ability to undertake duties outside of conventional office hours as and when necessary.

This post is subject to a safisfactory enhanced DBS check.

For more information, please refer to the Role Profile/Selection Criteria

About us

Harrow Council is the 12th largest London borough and one of the most culturally diverse local authorities in the UK, making it a great place to live, work and visit with a range of cultures, religions and opinions that come together to produce high achieving schools and a close and friendly community. Located 10 miles from the city centre and just 13 minutes to Euston from Harrow & Wealdstone station there are great transport links via the Metropolitan Line, Watford DC Line and national rail service. It is easily accessible to the M1, M25 and A406.

Other information

Support for candidates visit:Harrow.gov.uk Our behavioural indicators roles below G11 and above G11 Here at Harrow Council, the vision is one of 'Working together to make a difference for Harrow' Please click here to view Harrow Council's benefits

Important Note

To deliver our commitment to equality of opportunity in service provision, all staff are expected to promote equality in the workplace and in the services the Council delivers. All sections of the population will have equal access to jobs at the London Borough of Harrow. No applicant or employee will receive less favourable treatment because of age, disability, gender, reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy, or maternity unless a Genuine Occupational Qualification applies. As such, we value diversity and welcome applications from all backgrounds. For further information, please read our equality statement.

As a disability-confident employer, we are committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and accessible to everyone. This includes reasonably adjusting the recruitment process for those with disabilities or long-term health conditions. For further information, please contact us at resourcing@harrow.gov.uk

London Borough of Harrow is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Harrow operates stringent, safer recruitment procedures.

Due to the high number of applications received for some posts, we may close vacancies before the stated closing date if sufficient applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible.

Harrow redeployees will be given priority consideration.

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