Description Organisation : London Borough of Waltham Forest Salary: PO4 - PO5 £49,056 - £55,323 Contract Type: Fixed Term (9 month secondment) Working hours per week: 36 Application Deadline: 06/10/2025 Reference: 1904 INTERNAL APPLICANTS ONLY About Us: Bursting with culture, energy, and opportunity, the London Borough of Waltham Forest is a fantastic and exciting place to work. We are a highly ambitious borough. Driven by culture and the innate creativity of our residents, we have developed new and innovative ways to build our communities. Our Council is relentlessly resident-focused, insight-led, digitally driven and commercially minded; a Council focused on meeting the needs of our existing and future residents. London Borough of Waltham Forest is one of the Mayor of London’s Good Work Standard employers. This accreditation is a proof of our commitment to creating a healthy, fair and inclusive workplace. This includes fair pay and conditions, workplace well-being, skills and progression and diversity and recruitment. About the role: Reporting to a team manager, to coach, develop and manage a group of social workers and support staff, providing professional reflective supervision, complex case management, case direction, allocation, and support. To provide expertise and advice to manage risk, identify innovative solutions to challenges and advance the quality of professional practice to ensure it is consistent with the requirements of the Care Act 2014. To utilise various information sources to identify and respond to knowledge and skills gaps within the team to ensure interventions (including advice/signposting) maximise the wellbeing, safety, and independence of adult residents in need of care and support. To develop and maintain positive working relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders including service providers, relevant statutory bodies, partners, clients, and local communities in a multidisciplinary setting to achieve team and service-level objectives. To fulfil the role of practice manager in one of the following social work teams in Adult Social Care: Community Active Recovery Team (CART) – (Willow House, London E17 4UH) >> Click here to download the Role Profile Key Responsibilities: To coach, develop and manage a group of social workers and support staff to ensure the best outcomes for residents in need of care and support Support social workers and team managers to identify and implement improvements/ efficiencies to processes and practice and contribute to the positive direction of the team and service Demonstrate a strong level of experience in overseeing complex casework and assessing the care and support needs of clients Ensure the implementation of Making Safeguarding Personal (MSP) To be responsible for effective performance management Quality assure work completed by social workers and social care assistants Participate in monthly audits Qualifications and Requirements: To be considered for this position, you should meet the following requirements: Social Work qualification and registration Experience in Adult Social Care Proficiency in Microsoft including word and excel Terms and conditions: The below terms and conditions apply to this role: Satisfactory employment references and CIFAS identity checks; Satisfactory declaration of interest; This role is subject to safer recruitment practices as it involves work with children and/ or vulnerable adults; Satisfactory DBS check; Continued professional body registration; As a public authority, we must ensure that members of staff in public-facing roles are able to speak fluent English. This means that they must have a command of spoken English, with confidence and accuracy, sufficient for the effective performance of their role. This requirement does not refer to any particular English language qualifications, regional or international accents, dialects, speech impediments or the tone of conversations. It does not require staff to speak only in English. How to Apply: Interested candidates are invited to submit their applications online by pressing the ‘Apply’ button below. This includes a supporting statement that outlines to us how your skills and experience make you a good candidate for this vacancy. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible. Equal Opportunity Employer: Waltham Forest is a diverse borough where diversity is valued and is integral to both, service delivery and employment of its staff. The Council is proud of its rich mix of communities and as the largest employer in the area, it works hard to respond to the changing needs of its population. We use our statutory duties on race, gender and disability equality and best practice in respect of age, faith and sexual orientation to ensure equality of opportunity in the workplace. The Council is committed to meeting its 4 equality objectives: - Promoting equality of opportunity - Opposing all forms of discrimination, intolerance and disadvantage - Ensuring our workforce reflects the diverse communities of Waltham Forest at all levels. - Providing fair, appropriate, accessible and excellent Services to all. Respecting Diversity is a core Council value. To support the above and reduce the risk of bias in its recruitment activities, the council is operating an anonymous shortlisting process, which hides personal information that can identify individuals until their application has been considered for shortlisting. The council also operates a scheme whereby, for jobs graded up to and including scale SO2, internal candidates are considered first. This includes those candidates who self-identify as having a disability for the purposes of the Disability Confident scheme. For more information, please refer to our recruitment and selection policy. We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below or feel free to discuss this during your interview. For more information on the benefits of working for the Council, please visit https://www.walthamforest.gov.uk/jobs-and-training/find-jobs-and-other-opportunities/working-us. Contact Information: If you have any questions about this vacancy or the application process, please contact Emma Marlow, Team Manager at Emma.Marlow@walthamforest.gov.uk If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post, please contact our Recruitment Team via email at recruitment@walthamforest.gov.uk. The Council’s preference is for online application. However, if you have a disability and are unable to complete an online application, please email recruitment@walthamforest.gov.uk so we can arrange an alternative application method. Click here for further information on the Human Resources recruitment privacy notice .