Advanced Social Worker - Older People - Mayday Locality, Grade 14 (51,522 - £53,607)
Advanced Social Worker – Permanent – Older People North
Location: Croydon
Division: Adult Care Services
Business Unit: Adult Social Care
Position Type: Permanent
Contract Type: Full Time / 36 hours
London Borough of Croydon
Not afraid of a challenge? We need committed knowledgeable social workers to help us with our core business – empowering and supporting people who need signposting, community support, or even some direct help from the Council.
At this difficult time the Council Leadership has made clear their support for our statutory functions, including Adult Social Care. We know where our priorities are.
We have an established and stable base of Team Managers to work with you and support you, our vacancy rates our low - and we rarely use agency staff preferring to concentrate our efforts on looking after our permanent staff. This includes having a dedicated Training officer supporting adult social care, and a Consultant Social Worker acting as a Deputy Principal Social Worker to support staff welfare and practice. We have also recently upgraded our electronic recording system.
Advanced Social Worker
If you have some experience, with supervising of Social Workers, Health & Wellbeing Officers or Social Care staff. You feel ready to deputize for a Team Manager in their absence, then a progression to an Advanced Social Worker role might be right for you. This role will focus on the deputy role, case work - including some complex casework / specialisms and includes supervision of team members, ASYE’s and Social Work Students (with the relevant training). This role is seen as the preparation for the move into Management or specialised Social Work practice.
Working in Croydon
Applicants wishing to join our aspiring and progressive adult social care services teams will have a commitment to team working and an enthusiasm for contributing to sharing ideas that support the development of all our services, closer community engagement and support.Candidates will demonstrate professionalism, creativity and drive in their approach to person centred, strengths-based practice and problem solving; and an ability to work flexibly in response to a rapidly changing public service environment. Additionally the staff here at Croydon are friendly, and the transport links are excellent, as indeed is the support for working from home.
In return we offer scope to our staff team to progress their career, develop their individual professional practice, analytical and creative skills, and a department wide commitment to realistic caseloads (capped for NQSW’s at a minimum of 10% lower than the rest of your team).Croydon Adult Services operate a case load limit structure, designed to maintain viable workload and support output of work. This is supported by a Council wide programme of excellent learning, development and career progression opportunities, epitomised by our strong ASYE programme and commitment to post qualification training.
Closing date:Sunday 6 July 2025 @ 11.59pm
Safeguarding and equal opportunities
Croydon council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. The Successful candidate will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check.
Croydon Council is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender
Croydon Council has one of the best benefits schemes in local government
From flexible working and generous annual leave entitlement, to high street shopping vouchers and fantastic health and leisure discounts, there really is something for everyone, whatever your taste or lifestyle. “We want Croydon Council to be a place where our staff enjoy their jobs and are proud to be here. We encourage development and invest heavily in helping you excel and achieve your full potential. We reward talent and excellence, and our flagship benefits scheme, Options, allows you to enjoy a healthy work life balance”. (Croydon recruitment offering).
Here’s just a taster of what working at Croydon Council can offer you:
* Unbeatable local government pension scheme with employer contribution of 23.2%
* 28-30 working days as annual leave
* Cycle purchase scheme saving up to 42%
* Generous discounts on high street stores
* Discounted nursery with special rates for Croydon council employees
* Confidential and free employee assistance programme
* Leisure and travel discounts
* Clear and simple free financial advice
* Benenden’s affordable healthcare
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