Join our integrated team of professionals spanning three key partners, encompassing health and adult social care staff. If you have a clear understanding of working with individuals who have a global Learning Disability and a sound knowledge of the Mental Capacity Act, we want to hear from you.
We’re looking for someone with a passion for supporting people with a range of needs associated with their Learning Disability. If you’re motivated to help individuals live as independently as possible for as long as possible, and you’re keen to add value and promote their lives and your working practice around a strength-based approach, you could be the perfect fit for our team.
In this role, you’ll support the individuals on your caseload, ensuring that you undertake Care Act assessments and support plans in a timely manner. You’ll consider needs around Mental Capacity and Best Interests, and any subsequent work will be supported and progressed by you as the lead worker for your cases. It’s essential that your work adds value, supports, promotes, and embeds a strength-based approach, and maximises value for taxpayers. You’ll also have a working knowledge of CHC and will incorporate this into your ongoing assessments, securing both funding and status where CHC applies.
As a Social Worker, you’ll carry out the full spectrum of statutory responsibilities under the Care Act, Mental Capacity Act, and other related laws and policies. You’ll be expected to perform your role in a strength-based way, always striving for high quality and continually seeking to reflect on and improve your practice. You’ll work in partnership with residents, carers, community-based organisations, and other key professionals to enable people to be as independent as they can.
You’ll understand the significant impact a well-functioning resident-facing team can have on individuals in need of care and support, their carers, the council, and the adult social care department. In your social work practice, you’ll prioritise delaying and preventing the need for social care intervention by having strength-based conversations with people and taking a relationship-based, person-centred approach.
You’ll be a core member of a multi-disciplinary team of social workers, occupational therapists, case managers, and support workers/advisers. Our team is fast-paced and sits at the heart of the Council’s corporate customer centre, delivering positive outcomes for residents with adult social care needs. You’ll also be part of a wider Adult Social Care team.
In this vital team, the following specific behaviours will empower our staff to implement the strength-based approach we’re dedicated to for our residents:
- Being solution and resolution focussed
- Being flexible
- Seeing the big picture
- Changing and improving
- Making effective decisions
- Communicating and influencing
- Working together
- Developing self and others
- Managing a quality service
- Delivering at pace
- Listening to and working with local people
We are committed to tackling inequality, racism and injustice and creating a fairer borough for all. In order to do this, we need to set the example by being a fair employer and creating a workplace environment, which is free from discrimination, racism and inequality. Our approach needs to be proactive, consistently learning to create a fairer workplace and foster a culture, which empowers all staff to challenge inequality. Fairness is at the heart of what we do. We want to celebrate and embrace our differences by:
- Ensuring all levels of our workforce is representative of the people we work on behalf of, our residents
- Creating equitable working environments and diverse teams
- Understanding our residents in order to design and deliver services that help tackle inequality and improve life chances for our residents
- Getting to know people and their differences
- Interpreting issues and concerns from a cultural perspective and address situations or problems from the points-of-view of multiple cultures
- Supporting people with long-term health conditions and/or disabilities
- Recognising the value of flexible working to support staff where possible
The ASC Vision
All of our work in Islington Adult Social Care helps create an energetic, passionate community where people and families feel safe, valued, have a sense of belonging, are connected to their community and feel supported to live the lives they choose. Social justice, fairness and equality drive us.
Our vision for the future is clear. We want to continue this work and build on it, to level the playing field, enhance resilience and empower people to thrive. We believe Islington could and should be recognised throughout the UK for the ability to listen, understand, lead and act on what is important to our residents, staff and partners as we spot opportunities, appreciate and empower each other.
We need to maximise independence, manage demand and balance the budget. We are closely aligned with Fairer Together and the Challenging Inequalities, Racism and Injustice Programme, working collaboratively with residents who use services, staff and partners to make Islington a fairer place to live and work.
Our Co-Produced Principles
We have worked with our staff, service users and carers to develop a set of principles that will help us plan our work to improve our services and support Islington residents to lead healthy, independent lives.
We know that the principles will mean different things to different people and we will review them over time. However, they give us a clear understanding of some of the ways of working that we need to focus on to help us make changes and improvements that the people who use our services and their carers think are most important. This is really important in helping us make the best use of the resources we have.
We will:
- Listen to you and involve you in what we do and how we do it
- Work with you to strengthen your sense of safety, wellbeing and belonging
- Be clear about the choices you have and the support available to you
- Offer the right support at the right time, based on your strengths and what’s most important to you
- Improve the quality and consistency of services and celebrate success
- Help our residents to connect with voluntary and community groups and to continue supporting and learning from each other
Work style: Islington Adult Social Care is dedicated to agile working, aiming to strike a balance between work and home life while delivering excellent services to our residents. Agile working and accountability are intertwined in our approach.