Grade ME10-13, Salary £35,217- £45,834 plus essential car user allowance £963

MERTON TRANSITION TEAM

SOCIAL WORKER

PERMANENT / FULL TIME

GRADE ME10-13 £32,418 – £42,855 plus Essential car user allowance £963

The Merton Transition Team provides support to those young people and their families with additional needs when they are preparing to move from childhood to adulthood.

The Team has been developing and expanding and so this is an exciting time to join us. We are now looking to recruit 3 social workers .This is a small diverse team consisting of 7 staff and is part of the wider integrated learning disability team. The role supports young people into adult services and is extremely rewarding work, although it can be challenging.

The team work closely with a range of partners and colleagues across Children’s and Adult Services and have excellent relationships with our Merton Children’s Teams and SEND service as well as community health and mental health services.

If you love a challenge and are looking for an inspiring new venture, join our team. If you are interested in this role you will be supported with good supervision and there are many opportunities for training and development.

Our ethos is working together in a supportive team environment to provide an outstanding service within the community. We offer a 35 hour working week, flexible working, hybrid working opportunities and generous work benefits and our service teams are based in Merton Civic Centre.

Benefits working in Adult Social Care

Please click the link to find out more about our adult services:

Working in adults’ services : Overview | Merton Council

We offer great supervision and training opportunities…

• Access to CareKnowledge (Adult Social Care) - A holistic online professional development platform.
• Access to Adult Social Care Development Academy - To support staff to develop and progress in their career.
• Member of the Developing Together Social Work Teaching Partnership - We work collaboratively with Kingston University, seven other local authorities and two voluntary sector agencies across South West London & Surrey for training and development including post-qualification.
• Refund of Social Work professional registration fee.

Getting around

We are one of the best connected areas of south London with fourteen National Rail stations, five underground stations (District and Northern lines) and the London Trams service joining Wimbledon, Morden and Croydon.

The road network offers access to the M23, M25, Channel Tunnel and airports.

Morden and Wimbledon stations offer bus service connections to surrounding areas.

Benefits at Merton

Please click the link to see all of our benefits: https://www.merton.gov.uk/jobs-and-careers/working-for-merton

AFC Wimbledon

Merton have teamed up with AFC Wimbledon to offer a special 10% discount for tickets to all AFC Wimbledon matches.

Merton Employee Groups

Christian Fellowship, Disabled Employees Forum, Pride Network and REN (Race Equality Network)

If you are interested in finding out more about this post please contact the Team Manager, Jacqui Toney on 020 8545 3081 or by email to jacqui.toney@merton,gov.uk