**INTERNAL APPLICATIONS ONLY** Social Care Assistant (Adult) in Walthamstow

Organisation: London Borough of Waltham Forest

Salary: SC6 - SO2 £35,520 - £42,060

Retention Bonus: £2,000 Annually

Contract Type: Full-Time, Permanent

Working hours per week: 36

Application Deadline: 01/07/2026

Reference: 2005

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 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 Social Worker, Reablement Therapist or Practice Manager, the Social Care Assistant will hold a caseload and undertake person-led assessments and interventions techniques for adults with a variety of reablement and social care needs. The post holder will work directly with people with emerging social care needs to support early intervention. This will include helping people to develop wellbeing plans, access community initiatives and develop strategies to manage their emerging needs. You will assist long-term care users to increase social inclusion, access community-led initiatives and maximise their independence.

The Adult Care Management Team manages provides residents with eligible care and support needs, a longer-term service, due to complex needs; with a high emphasis on Relationship-Based Interventions and Strengths-Based practice. The ethos being to support Adults and their informal carers to maximise their independence yet providing tailored person-centred support in-line with Care Act 2014 eligible need. The Adult Care Management Team hold statutory responsibilities for Safeguarding, Unscheduled Reviews and Support Planning. We support you based on your current skill set, professional learning needs and practice interests. The Adult Care Management Team, work with adults aged 18 and over, to identify and care plan for eligible Social Care and Support needs. As a Social Care Assistant within this remit, your role will be to manage your own complex caseload, with the support of a Practice Manager and Team Manager.

We are a Home Office–licensed sponsor; however, for this specific role we are not able to provide Skilled Worker visa sponsorship. To be considered, you must already hold a form of UK work authorisation that does not require sponsorship.

Key Responsibilities:

• Working collaboratively with internal departments, Health Services, Partners, Statutory and Non-Statutory organisations to secure a holistic approach to Assessment, Safeguarding and Care Planning.
• Conducting Care Act (2014) compliant Assessments, Reviews and Support Plans which seek to promote, retain, and maximise independence where safe and possible to do so.
• Provide person-centred services to vulnerable adults that focus on evidence-based and best practice.
• Provide professional advice and guidance to colleagues and partner agencies supporting vulnerable people.
• Maintain properly documented case files, records, and information.
• Prepare reports as required.
• Proactively develop professional knowledge, skills, and behaviours.
• All opportunities to prevent, reduce and delay access to social care services are taken.

Qualifications and Requirements:

To apply, you should have a working background in Health and/or Adult Social Care and at least 2 years’ experience. Transferable skills from other professions will be considered and assessed on their own merit. We anticipate that an applicant will have the following aptitudes and ability to demonstrate these:

• Knowledge and experience of issues relating to people in need, including relevant legislation, guidance & procedures.
• Experience of service delivery which is culturally sensitive and responsive to the needs of a multi-cultural community.
• Ability to work as a team member.
• Ability to work under regular supervision from a line manager.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure.
• Ability to prioritise work and risks.
• Ability to ensure Performance Indicators relating to service areas are met.
• Ability to participate in change effectively.
• Ability to communicate clearly verbally and in writing, and to follow through required actions.
• Commitment to the participation of vulnerable people and their families both at an individual and service level.
• Working knowledge of the Care Act 2014 and other relevant legislation, procedures and guidance relating to children and families.
• Ability to demonstrate understanding of the financial implications for a Local Authority when commissioning care and support to meet needs and an awareness of how to consider other funding streams/means of meeting needs.
• Awareness of current issues in care and support policy and practice.

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.

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Contact Information:

If you have any questions about this vacancy or the application process, please contact Steven Box, Team Manager at Steven.Box@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.