About Tower Hamlets – The Best of London in one borough!

Tower Hamlets is one of the UK's most culturally vibrant and diverse areas, at the heart of London's East End. Our vision is that local communities will be independent, strong and vibrant.

We want you to be part of the future that we are creating, and to help us make a difference. We have senior practitioner social work roles available. We are proud of our values because they demonstrate how we work and interact with customers, partners and colleagues on a day-to-day basis.

We have five core values:

• Together - We work TOGETHER across boundaries and with partners to achieve the best outcomes for Tower Hamlets
• Open and honest - We are OPEN and transparent
• Willing - We are WILLING to challenge, innovate and be accountable
• Excellence - We empower each other to be EXCELLENT and go the extra mile
• Respect - We RESPECT all communities; they are the heart of everything we do

About you

As a senior practitioner, you will have experience of supervising social care staff and will implement a high standard of professional social work practice. Your role will include overseeing practice including the care and support process, decision-making regarding eligibility and safeguarding.

You will support the Team Manager in ensuring the operational effectiveness of the team, allocating and prioritising workloads, supervising the correct recording and throughput of cases and taking responsibility for ensuring all cases are safely managed.

You will be committed to leading a team that delivers a strength-based model of practice that empowers adults with care and support needs. You’ll share our values and vision for increasing independence, wellbeing and for collaborative working with our internal and external partners.

Application Details

Tower Hamlets vision for our borough is that: people are aspirational, independent and have equal access to opportunities; we are a borough that our residents are proud of and love to live in; and we are a dynamic, outcomes-based council using digital innovation and partnership working to respond to the changing needs of our borough. We want people who aspire to our TOWER values: Together; Open; Willing; Excellent; Respect.

Tower Hamlets has a zero-tolerance approach to, and works to eradicate, all forms of discrimination on the basis of race, sex, disability, age, religion or belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital status, status as a civil partner, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy and maternity and looks to employ a diverse workforce representative of those groups. We recognise that people can also be disadvantaged by their social and economic circumstances, so we will work to eliminate discrimination and disadvantage caused by social class.

We welcome applicants interested in flexible working arrangements and also applicants who live in the borough. 

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