Social Worker

Job Description

Organisation: London Borough of Waltham Forest

Salary: PO1-PO4 £39,855 - £50,574

Retention Bonus/ Market Supplement: £2000

Contract Type: Permanent
Working hours per week: 36

Application Deadline: 08/09/2025

Proposed Interview Date: 19/09/2025

Reference: 1803

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:

Who we are looking for:

The Adult Review Team (ART) is looking for someone to join the team who has good people skills and is keen to provide the best service to the residents of Waltham Forest. To apply, you should be an experienced qualified social worker, with a current Social Work England Registration.

As a social worker, you will

Engage with individuals, carers, families, groups and communities to assess and intervene, using professional judgement, and developing person-led support plans to meet the needs of individuals that promote choice, control and independence.

Promote wellbeing, be able to identify safeguarding concerns. Be able to use a strength-based approach to assessment to support individuals to identify and develop their support networks and consider positive risk taking to enhance their choice and control in how their care needs are met.

You will need to have a good understanding of safeguarding and managing risk where necessary, to enable individuals, carers and their families to maintain their skills, confidence and independence. Have a good understanding of mental capacity and deprivation of liberty safeguards. You will need to be able to apply social work theory, and legislation within your practice.

You need to be a qualified social worker and registered with Social Work England to practice.

Be responsible for ensuring the delivery of timely, high quality and legally compliant social care practice to agreed standards.

Please look at the detailed role profile for more information about the role

What the ART do:

We work with adults aged 18 and over, to complete individuals’ annual reassessments and reviews with them. It is a fast-paced role and there is an expectation that all pieces of work with people will be completed timely. As well as annual reassessments the team do identify safeguarding issues and complete the safeguarding process. We provide a strength-based person-centred approach to service users and informal carers, to enable them to enhance their wellbeing and independence and minimize risks. Your day-to-day responsibilities may include:

• Completing annual reviews and reassessments for service users and carers.
• Complete any work generated by the reassessment or review.
• Completing Safeguarding process
• Work collaboratively with internal partners as well as our Health Partners, Statutory and Non-Statutory organisations to secure a holistic approach to Assessment, Safeguarding and Care Planning.

About the Team

The Adult Review Team was established in May 2020. The Review Team works in partnership with all the services in Adult Social Care, particularly the Adult Care Management Team. The Review Team hold statutory responsibilities for Safeguarding, Annual reassessments and reviews which includes support planning. You would be expected to be able to sign post service users as well as complete any short-term tasks that generate from the assessment process.

You will have access to regular team meetings and peer support, as well as regular supervisions from the team manager or practice manager, to enable you to develop your skill sets and knowledge regarding your role and career progression. The Adult Review Team work Monday – Friday, covering core hours of 09:00 – 17:15 each day and are expected to be office based at least 3 days a week.

>> Click here to download the Role Profile <<

Key Responsibilities:

Reporting to a Team/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 demonstrate effective practice in assessing and managing varying levels of risk and complexity, striking a balance between support and control and liaising with a wide range of professionals in a multidisciplinary setting.

Qualifications and Requirements:

social work qualification

Professional registration with Social Work England (SWE)

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 Carolin Hierse, practice manager at Carolin.Hierse@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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