Salary range:
The salary range for this position is: £47,043 - £54,135
The role
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced social worker to work across multiple agencies and networks. You will be encouraged to develop your social work skills, give advice and guidance to the professional network and help to develop new approaches to supporting this cohort. You will have the scope to offer creative and innovative interventions to ensure service users are at the centre of the support they receive.
This role requires a candidate with excellent skills in communication, organisation and developing partnership working. You will be co-located and work across housing, community safety, social care, health and relevant partners.
About Southwark:
We are the largest local authority social landlord in London, managing 55,000 homes lived in by 40% of Southwark’s residents. We are home to over 18,300 businesses including iconic London venues and social enterprises and we have a young, diverse and growing population.
At Southwark we are committed to making our borough just and fair and are taking positive action to tackle inequalities. Our residents and communities are our greatest asset and the passion we have for Southwark is shared by millions of Londoners who enjoy our outstanding cultural offer, use our hospitals and attend our universities. Our refreshed borough plan and focus on Southwark Stands Together, (which is our work with Southwark’s communities and the council’s staff to tackle racism, injustice and inequality) underpins all that we do.
About You:
You will be a registered Social Worker with extensive experience of working as part of multi-agency network. You will have experience of supporting adults with dual diagnoses (namely mental illness and substance misuse). You will have a genuine passion for the provision of high quality services and demonstrate a commitment to strengths-based ways of working.
You will have awareness of current social care legislation and policy including safeguarding adults.
You will have understanding of the application of the principles of equality and diversity and implementing it in practice.
We welcome applicants who have lived/living experience.
Additional salary details
This is a 1 year fixed term contract.
Recruitment timetable
Closing date: Sunday 4th February 2024
Interview date: W/C 19th February 2024
Guaranteed Interview Scheme
As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:
- Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
- Are currently in care, or have previously been in care
- If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition
We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together initiative. We particularly welcome applications from members of the black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.
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