We currently have two exciting opportunities for highly motivated and skilled Social Workers in our Adult Social Care Safeguarding and DoLS Team
Safeguarding Social worker
In this role you will work on ensuring safety, advocacy, and empower our most vulnerable residents with all things relating to safeguarding. You will work to addressed inequity, support servers’ users proportionately, use a person-centred and strength-based approach and ensure voices are heard.
You will need an excellent knowledge of safeguarding adults and associated legalities and guidance associated with Pan London.
You will need to be a:
- qualified social worker and a trained Best Interest Assessor is also desirable.
- in-depth and broad knowledge of relevant legislation, statutory functions and national guidance that pertain to adults, particularly safeguarding and mental capacity.
- Experience of holding complex safeguarding cases, as well as experience of multidisciplinary and multi-agency working.
- You will have experience and knowledge of the statutory duties under the Care Act 2014, specifically in relation to Safeguarding and DoLs.
Adults Social Care
Our approach to Adult Social care is strength-based, and we aim to achieve the best outcomes for our residents and their carers. We aim to enable people to be safe, as independent as possible and to live the lives they want. Adults of all ages can need extra support in day-to-day life for various and often complex reasons. Adult social care is the support provided to adults with physical or learning disabilities, or physical or mental illnesses, and older people who require extra support.
As a member of the Adult Social Care team, you will get the training and development you need to excel in your career, as well as opportunities to move between departments and to progress into more senior roles. We offer a plethora of development training which can enhance your career pathway. Merton is dedicated to growing our own and providing opportunities to progress and have a passion for investing in our staff.
We work closely with Kingston University as part of the Developing Together Work Teaching Partnership. The partnership offers to the staff variety of post qualifying opportunities to promote continuous professional development such as: Practice educator opportunities as well as to support those in their assessed and supported year in employment (ASYE).
Please click the links below to find out more about our adult services
Working in adults’ services : Overview | Merton Council
About Merton
Working for Merton means you’ll be making a difference to the lives of residents and businesses. Merton Local Authority is committed to ‘Building a Better Merton Together’. Our council plan for 2023-26 sets out our ambition for rebuilding pride in Merton over the next three years.
We want people to feel proud to live, work and visit Merton. Our aim is to rebuild a sense of pride from the ground up through cleaner streets, more affordable housing, improved town centres and opportunities to be involved in this great sporting borough.
Merton is 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.
Commitment to our staff
Please click the link to see all other benefits available: https://www.merton.gov.uk/jobs-and-careers/working-for-merton
If you have any questions about this role, please contact Folashade Braimoh Folashade.Braimoh@merton.gov.uk
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