Social Worker – Adults Learning and Disability

Social Worker Learning Disabilities Team Salary Range: £37,766 - £51,127 Permanent/Full Time Wandsworth, London Are you passionate about supporting adults with learning disabilities to live fulfilling and independent lives? Do you thrive in a collaborative environment where skills can make a real difference? Join Richmond and Wandsworth Learning Disabilities Social Work Team. As a Social Worker in our Learning Disabilities Team, you will work with adults with learning disabilities, their families, and carers to assess needs and provide tailored support plans and coordinate services. Your role will consist of safeguarding the wellbeing of vulnerable adults in the community, promoting their health and well-being while empowering individuals to live their best lives through promoting the independence of the service users and drawing on their strength-based practice. You will be joining a supportive team who are committed to developing staff through excellent learning and development training opportunities available through Richmond and Wandsworth Adult Social Care Academy. You will have access to a range of professional development opportunities. You will be required to: Work in partnership with service users, their relatives, and carers using a person-centered approach, with the aim of maximizing independence, wellbeing, and choice. Undertake assessments for adults with learning disabilities to identify needs. Safeguard vulnerable adults by identifying risks and taking appropriate actions to mitigate and minimize risks in line with statutory duties and best practice. Apply social work principles and values to guide professional practice and respect diversity. Work within the Care Act 2014 and other relevant statutory frameworks. Take responsibility for maintaining a good standard of professional practice and developing the core skills and knowledge required. To monitor implementation of packages of care and support via the review process and adjust them as appropriate to ensure that individual care packages, including funding arrangements for any services, are thoroughly reviewed in accordance with statutory requirements. This role will consist of hybrid working. You will be based at the Council's offices in Wandsworth, working from home and completing visits. You will be supporting adults in the Wandsworth borough, covering the duty rota which is the main source of work coming into the team. The duty rota will require you to be on duty once a month, subject to service requirements. Essential Qualifications, Skills and Experience What we will require from you: A relevant professional qualification in social work and current registration with Social Work England. Evidence of successfully passing the ASYE programme or be able to demonstrate capabilities and knowledge at that level. Excellent communication, decision-making, and time management skills. Post-qualification experience along with a good knowledge of relevant legislation and local authority responsibilities in the safeguarding of vulnerable adults. What we can offer you: £3,000 retention bonus for qualified staff (every 2 years of service) Payment of Social Work England registration fee Regular reflective supervision and peer group supervision Bespoke Personal Development Plans Access to a range of professional learning and development opportunities For further information relating to working for Adult Social Care at Richmond and Wandsworth, please visit

Find your social care career | Richmond Adult Social Care . Closing Date:

19 th

February 2025 Shortlisting Date:

W/C 24 th

February 2025 Interview Date:

W/C 3 rd

March 2025 To arrange an informal conversation please contact Carol Daniel via carol.daniel@richmondandwandsworth.gov.uk We may close this vacancy early once a sufficient number of applications have been received. Please submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment. Richmond & Wandsworth Better Service Partnership are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences, recognising that employees from a variety of backgrounds bring important and positive contributions to the Councils and can improve the way we deliver services. This campaign is anonymised. We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer. If you require any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment and selection process, please let us know. We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Some posts may be exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to these posts will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). We offer a wide range of

benefits

designed to attract, develop, and reward our employees such as 40 days annual leave (including Bank Holidays), flexible working, and a generous pension plan.

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