Social Worker

Organisation: London Borough of Waltham Forest

Salary: PO1-PO4 £39,855 - £50,574
Retention Bonus: £2000

Contract Type: Full Time 
Working hours per week: 36 hours per week, 8am - 4.15pm 

Application Deadline: 10/07/2025

Proposed Interview Date(s): TBC
Reference: 1779

 

About Us: 

Bursting with culture, energy, and opportunity, the London Borough of Waltham Forest is a fantastic and exciting place to work. 

We are a highly ambitious borough. Driven by culture and the innate creativity of our residents, we have developed new and innovative ways to build our communities. Our Council is relentlessly resident-focused, insight-led, digitally driven and commercially minded; a Council focused on meeting the needs of our existing and future residents. 

London Borough of Waltham Forest is one of the Mayor of London’s Good Work Standard employers. This accreditation is a proof of our commitment to creating a healthy, fair and inclusive workplace. This includes fair pay and conditions, workplace well-being, skills and progression and diversity and recruitment. 

 

About the role: 

Reporting to a Practice Manager, the social worker in ASC will provide a professional social work service to adults, their families, and carers in accordance with the requirements outlined in the Care Act. Engage with individuals, families, groups and communities to assess and intervene, using a strength-based approach and professional judgement to employ a range of interventions promoting choice, control, wellbeing and independence..

To be a member of one of the following social work teams in Adult Social Care:

• MASH/Rapid Response (Willow House/Woodbury)
• The Rapid Response Team is a multi-disciplinary community health service run by NELFT. It is a key part of the local system’s offer to residents to support them to stay out of hospital when they do not need acute medical care. It provides an Admission Avoidance pathway that also delivers Adult Social Care support to adults over 18 who have eligible needs under the Care Act.

 

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Key Responsibilities: 

To support the aims and objectives of the Adult Social Care interface with the Rapid Response Team, you will be required to: 

• Build positive working relationships with health colleagues from a range of professional disciplines. 
• Assist health colleagues to develop a good understanding of Adult Social Care policies and procedures (including formal safeguarding arrangements).
• Promote a strength-based approach to assessing the health and social care needs of residents who are at imminent risk of preventable hospital admission. 
• Adopt whole systems thinking in order to sustain throughput and achieve good health and social care outcomes for vulnerable residents. 
• Apply the principles of multi-disciplinary working by providing a “team around the person” approach that is person-centered and puts the resident in control of managing their own health and care needs as far as possible.  
• Complete holistic Care Act eligibility assessments with residents.
• Complete Mental Capacity assessments where necessary. 
• Assess and manage risk in a way that will promote independence and prevent admissions to hospital (or other institutional care settings).  
• Attend regular team meetings with Rapid Response Team colleagues.
• Contribute to quality improvement discussions that will help to develop the service in line with the team’s remit. 
• Manage and prioritise your workload effectively in an integrated working environment.  

 

Qualifications and Requirements: 

Professional registration with Social Work England (SWE)

Degree or equivalent or vocational qualification in relevant subject or area

 

 Terms and conditions: 

Satisfactory employment references and CIFAS identity checks; 

Satisfactory declaration of interest; 

This role is subject to safer recruitment practices as it involves work with children and/ or vulnerable adults; 

Satisfactory DBS check; 

Continued professional body registration; 

As a public authority, we must ensure that members of staff in public-facing roles are able to speak fluent English. This means that they must have a command of spoken English, with confidence and accuracy, sufficient for the effective performance of their role. This requirement does not refer to any particular English language qualifications, regional or international accents, dialects, speech impediments or the tone of conversations. It does not require staff to speak only in English. 

 

How to Apply: 

Interested candidates are invited to submit their applications online by pressing the ‘Apply’ button below. This includes a supporting statement that outlines to us how your skills and experience make you a good candidate for this vacancy. 

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.  

 

Equal Opportunity Employer: 

Waltham Forest is a diverse borough where diversity is valued and is integral to both, service delivery and employment of its staff. The Council is proud of its rich mix of communities and as the largest employer in the area, it works hard to respond to the changing needs of its population. We use our statutory duties on race, gender and disability equality and best practice in respect of age, faith and sexual orientation to ensure equality of opportunity in the workplace. The Council is committed to meeting its 4 equality objectives: - Promoting equality of opportunity - Opposing all forms of discrimination, intolerance and disadvantage - Ensuring our workforce reflects the diverse communities of Waltham Forest at all levels. - Providing fair, appropriate, accessible and excellent Services to all. Respecting Diversity is a core Council value. 

To support the above and reduce the risk of bias in its recruitment activities, the council is operating an anonymous shortlisting process, which hides personal information that can identify individuals until their application has been considered for shortlisting. The council also operates a scheme whereby, for jobs graded up to and including scale SO2, internal candidates are considered first. This includes those candidates who self-identify as having a disability for the purposes of the Disability Confident scheme. For more information, please refer to our recruitment and selection policy. 

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below or feel free to discuss this during your interview. 

For more information on the benefits of working for the Council, please visit https://www.walthamforest.gov.uk/jobs-and-training/find-jobs-and-other-opportunities/working-us. 

 

Contact Information: 

If you have any questions about this vacancy or the application process, please contact Luan Mills Adult MASH Team Manager at Luan.Mills@walthamforest.gov.uk  

If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post, please contact our Recruitment Team via email at recruitment@walthamforest.gov.uk. 

The Council’s preference is for online application. However, if you have a disability and are unable to complete an online application, please email recruitment@walthamforest.gov.uk so we can arrange an alternative application method. 

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