Senior Social Worker (Approved Mental Health Professionals)

Posting date:	02 October 2025
Salary:	£45,750.00 to £56,043.00 per year
Additional salary information:	£45750.00 - £56043.00 a year
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	20 October 2025
Location:	London, SE186PZ
Company:	NHS Jobs
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	F0080-RBGTP1022349

Summary

To be responsible to ... The Team Manager ... for: i) Carrying out the roles and functions of an Experienced Social Worker, as outlined in the Knowledge & Skills Statements for Social Workers in Adults Services and underpinned by the Professional Capabilities Framework for Social Workers. ii) Maintaining the basis for continued registration with the appropriate regulatory body for Social Workers. iii) Ensuring that all work complies with Council policies and procedures and that statutory obligations are met. iv) The quality and prioritisation of your own work, following direction from your Line Manager, and for alerting your Line Manager at the earliest opportunity to any case issues, caseload issues, safeguarding concerns, practice issues, issues of unaddressed risk that will adversely impact the health and wellbeing of an individual or their carer, or issues that may impact the good reputation of the department or the local authority. v) The adoption of own good practice and performance standards with respect to the Social Work Professional Capabilities Framework and Knowledge and Skills Statements, adherence to Directorate policies, procedures, statutory responsibilities and agreed performance targets. vi) Undertaking all duties with due regard to the provisions of health and safety regulations and legislation, Data protection/GDPR, the Councils Equal Opportunities and Customer Care policies, and the New Technology agreement. vii) Undertaking any other work appropriate to the level and general nature of the posts duties. Manages up to 3 ...directly managed staff. Manages up to 0 ...indirectly managed consultancy/contracting staff. Main Duties: 1) To complete assessments and care and support plans and to review care and support plans for Adults with social care needs; to enable people to experience personalised, integrated care, and support them to maintain their independence and wellbeing, cope with change, attain the outcomes they want and need, understand and manage risk, and participate in the life of their communities. 2) To work creatively with Adults, their families and carers, and collaboratively with other professionals, in a range of settings, using person-centred principles, evidence-based practice, appropriate social work methods and models, and a good understanding of risk assessment and positive risk taking and making best use of available resources, to enable people to have better lives, whilst ensuring that individual rights are upheld. 3) To enable access to advice, support and services to adults and families to facilitate a wide range of practical and emotional support as required, using an extensive knowledge of social care legislation, best practice, current policies and procedures, as well as local and national resources. 4) To take responsibility for complex cases, using practice evidence and research to inform complex judgements and decision-making and be proactive in identifying issues and recommending actions needed to support, empower and protect adults and their families. 5) To ensure the safeguarding of adults and children at risk from abuse, neglect or exploitation by ensuring all concerns are raised with a Safeguarding Adults manager and by carrying out detailed safeguarding adults enquiries/assessments/reviews in line with current legislation, policy and best practice. 6) To be responsible for maintaining and promoting your own knowledge of social care legislation, guidance, best practice as well as local and national resources, and take a lead role in sustaining a learning culture within the organisation. 7) To maintain an awareness of your own professional limitations and knowledge gaps and seek advice and expertise where required to ensure safe and effective practice. 8) Contribute to, and take a lead role in the development of new initiatives, practice development, service improvement, policy and planning within teams and across agencies. 9) To contribute to the learning of others and to provide consultation, guidance, modelling and support the learning of good practice to colleagues within the council as well as external organisations as appropriate to grade, skills, knowledge and responsibilities, as directed by your Line Manager. 10) To follow and to promote best practice and local guidance in recording and documenting your activities, electronically and using other mediums, with especial emphasis on recording details pertaining to individuals. 11) To supervise, mentor, observe in practice, monitor and allocate work to staff and students and advise upon and direct the further development of their practice and workload management. 12) To lead on specific areas of work including giving presentations internally and externally and represent the department, appropriate to experience and grade as directed by Line Manager. 13) Where necessary for the job role or appropriate for continued development in the role, the post holder may be required to participate in training and development courses made available via the Councils Apprentice Levy funding. Designation of the Post to which the Post-Holder normally reports to: Team Manager