social worker London, England
Job description
Job Summary:
Salary range: £62,502 - £71,445 per annum (Pending pay award)
Work location: London
Hours per week: 36
Contract type: Permanent
Vetting requirements: Enhanced DBS Check
Closing date: 18th June 2023
Interview date: Week commencing 3rd or 10th July 2023
About Us:
Bring your ideas to a team that’s committed to excellence.
In Kensington and Chelsea, we look after a diverse population, which includes people living in some of the nation’s most deprived wards. Our challenges have become particularly acute during the pandemic but, by sharing facilities and expertise in a bi-borough agreement with Westminster City Council, we have sustained joined-up health and social care services that put residents at their heart. In Adult Social Care, we work hard to continuously improve and evolve our services and see learning and development as playing a crucial role.
The Role:
The post-holder will provide professional leadership, advice, guidance and development for social work and social care across the department to ensure that the highest standard of social work practice is imbedded across the organisation, in accordance with the Council’s values and help deliver the ASC six priorities.
The PSW is part of the Safeguarding and Workforce Development Team, which is led by Louis Butler, Head of Service. The PSW will also work closely with the Director, and service managers to and embed best professional practice throughout the Department. The PSW will contribute to the strategic leadership of services and develop and implement standards to ensure a cohesive and high performing social work workforce which embraces cultural change and improved quality and standards of practice.
Please refer to the Job Description for more information
About You:
Provide skilled and experienced leadership and practice knowledge to social workers and social care practitioners, to enable the Council to meet its vision which is to ensure that people living in Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea are enabled to be have the best possible quality of life and are able to live as live independently in their communities for as long as possible.
You’ll take a leadership role for practice and manage the ASC Learning and Development Team. The role also includes strategic leadership of services and develop and implement standards to ensure a cohesive and high performing social work workforce.
Please apply online explaining how you meet the requirements set out in the person specification and job description. CV’s alone will not be considered for this role.
We reserve the right to extend or close this vacancy early without warning subject to the volume of suitable applicants.
Application process
Please do not upload any documents, including CVs/Covering Letters or supporting statements, as these documents will not be reviewed and could result in your application not being shortlisted.
You should describe how you meet the person specification requirements for the position you are applying for in Section G of the application form.
Additional information
We are committed to promoting equality and respecting diversity and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
We are a Disability Confident Employer – committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.
We engage our staff with a variety of learning types including face-to-face and virtual learning because we want to ensure our staff understand our values and behaviours, grow their skills and develop their careers.
This post is covered by the Fluency Duty, as outlined in the Code of Practice on the English language requirements for public sector workers.
We do not accept speculative CVs from any source.
Please note, we will primarily contact candidates by e-mail throughout the recruitment process, please monitor your email junk / spam folder as our system generated emails may be allocated to these folders by your email settings.
If you experience difficulties with the recruitment application process, please contact the recruitment team by email: [email protected]
About Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
CEO: Nicholas Paget-Brown
Revenue: $2 to $5 billion (USD)
Size: 10000+ Employees
Type: Government
Website: www.rbkc.gov.uk
