Organisation: London Borough of Waltham Forest

Salary: PO1 – PO4 £41,133 - £52,194 full time or pro rata

Retention Bonus: £2000 (paid in 2 parts June and December)

Contract Type: Full Time/Permanent

Number of openings: 2 posts

Working hours per week: 36 hours per week Monday – Thursday 9am to 5.15pm, Friday 9am – 5pm

Application Deadline: Midnight on 5/7/26

Proposed Interview Date(s): Wednesday 8/7/26 and Friday 10/7/26

Reference: 2197

**INTERNAL APPLICATIONS ONLY**

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.

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.

About the role:

You will report to the team or practice manager. You will need to be able to manage a caseload that involves undertaking the full legal range of social care assessments and developing person-led support plans to meet the needs and outcomes of individuals. To be responsible for ensuring the delivery of high quality and legally compliant social care practice to agreed standards for the staff within the remit of the post. To maximise the independence and wellbeing of adults and older people. You will act in accordance with all policies and procedures which apply to the job and understand the reasons for this.

You will need to have an ability to respond appropriate on reflect in action using your sensitivity, persuasiveness, negotiation and assertiveness skills which are required to communicate with diverse audiences in emotive circumstances. You will need to have the ability to build trust and confidence with adults and older people, carers and colleagues. You may need to manage challenging behaviour and difficult situations such as complaints or not wanting to engage. You need to be able to maintain good working relationships with other professionals whilst challenging the decisions of other statutory agencies.

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Key Responsibilities:

Completing annual reassessments / reviews for service users and informal carers.

Identifying safeguarding concerns and be able to complete the safeguarding process.

Help people to be aware of and access universal services, voluntary sector and their local support networks.

Keep records updated

Using Mosaic for recording the assessment

Make appropriate referrals to our partner agencies.

The current initiatives within in the team is focusing on a person’s strengths and how to enhance their informal support network. This work has been undertaken with the Adut Early Help Team.

There will be other projects and initiatives that will become available as the year progresses.

You will not have any supervisory responsibilities.

Supervision of social care assistants, student social workers as required.

Qualifications and Requirements:

To be considered for this position, you should meet the following requirements:

You need to be a Qualified Social Worker and registered with Social Work England

You need to be qualified for a minimum of 2 years.

You need to have good communication skills, be able to work as part of a team as well as using your own initiative when working on your own.

You need to have experience of using Mosaic, Teams, Microsoft, Outlook, Oracle

You need to be physically able to complete home visits in the community which may include stairs for access. There role will also include some out of borough visits.

Terms and conditions:

The below terms and conditions apply to this role:

Satisfactory employment references

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

Jenny Clark Team manager jenny.clark@walthamforest.gov.uk

Carolin Hierse Practice manager 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.

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