Social Worker - Learning Disabilities Service (CLDS)

Salary Range: £44,579 - £50,706 (dependent on experience)
Location: 5 Pancras Square N1C 4AG
Contract Type: Secondment/Fixed Term – 12 months
Hours: Full Time (36 hours)
Closing Date: Sunday 17 November 2024; 23:59

About Camden

Camden is changing on the inside to make life better for everyone. Our residents and communities are at the heart of everything we do. We’re home to the most important conversations happening today and we’re making radical social change a reality, so that nobody gets left behind. Here’s where you can help decide a better future for us all.

What You’ll Be Doing

As a Social Worker with the Camden Learning Disability Service, you’ll help create a better future for our adults by ensuring Camden is a place in which everyone has the chance to succeed and no one gets left behind and everyone has a voice.

This is an exciting fixed term/secondment opportunity with Camden’s Learning Disabilities Service. We are looking for a Social Worker, who will bring to this role high quality and effective social work support, delivering excellent strengths based assessment, intervention, care planning and Social Work service to people with learning disabilities.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and will require an Enhanced DBS.

All About You

We are looking for someone who holds DIPSW, CQSW, BA, BSC or MA in Social Work or equivalent and registered with Social Work England with a minimum 2 years checkable experience.

The Ideal candidate will possess a good working knowledge of local care and support resources/options for adults with learning disabilities and their carers and where to find these.

You will have an excellent and demonstrable knowledge of relevant social care and health legislation, policies, procedures and best practice guides. You will have the skills to respond appropriately to unexpected events and crisis and have the ability to recognise signs of harm, abuse and neglect and how to manage these issues.

To find out more about what it is like to work at Camden, meet some of our People by visiting 'www.camdenjobs.co.uk/our-stories'.

How To Apply

To view the Job Profile, please CLICK HERE or copy and paste the below URL into your browser: http://camdocs.camden.gov.uk/HPRMWebDrawer/Record/10697407/file/document?inline

To apply for this job please follow the "Apply" link. In the ‘Why you?’ section of the application you will be required to demonstrate how you meet the role criteria noted in the Job Profile under the “About You” section.

What We Offer

At Camden, you’ll receive a host of benefits. From flexible working to 27 days annual leave (+ bank holidays!). We also know that a work life balance is extremely important so we also offer family leave, loan schemes and access to our incredible staff networks. We also have an incredible pensions scheme.

Visit 'www.camdenjobs.co.uk/staff-benefits' for more details.

Inclusion and Diversity

We want Camden Council to be a great place to work and to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and those of Other Ethnicities, LGBT+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our residents so that equalities and justice remains at the heart of everything we do.

To discover more about Camden and our commitment towards diversity, equality and safeguarding, please visit https://www.camdenjobs.co.uk/inclusion-and-diversity

Anonymised Application – in keeping with Camden’s commitment to inclusion the recruitment to this role is anonymised and supports the objective of reducing the impact of unconscious bias.

Asking for Adjustments

Camden is committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and as accessible as possible for everyone. This includes making adjustments or changes for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions. If you would like us to do anything differently during the application, interview or assessment process, including providing information in an alternative format, please contact us on 020 7974 6655, at resourcing@camden.gov.uk or post to 5 Pancras Square, London, N1C 4AG