Social Worker - Adults

Location Islington
Salary £27.00 - £28.50 per hour
Discipline
Post title: – Adult Social Care Social Worker
Service area: Adult Social Care
Expected grade: SO2 – PO3
Reports to: Senior Practitioner / Team manager
Your team: various
Number of supervisees: Potential line management of 1-2 staff
Our ambition
We're determined to make Islington fairer. To create a place where everyone, whatever their
background, has the opportunity to reach their potential and enjoy a good quality of life.
We also have an ambitious goal – to be the best council in the country – with every employee
clear about the part they play and inspired, focused and supported to give their very best.
We want to build an organisation where employees feel valued, inspired and empowered to
help us achieve our goals and provide the best services possible to our residents.
Our values and behaviours
‘Be Islington’ is about setting a clear challenge about what it means to be an Islington
employee and sets the standard for every new recruit.
We ask our employees to ‘Be Islington’ – playing their part in working together for a fairer
borough and to always be collaborative, be ambitious, be resourceful, and be empowering
(‘CARE’). Be Islington’ is about setting a clear challenge about what it means to be an Islington
employee and sets the standard for every new recruit.
In this crucial team, the following specific behaviours will enable our staff to deliver the strength based
approach we’re committed to for our residents;
• Being solution and resolution focussed
• Being flexible
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Changing and Improving
• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together
• Developing Self and Others
• Managing a Quality Service
• Delivering at pace
• Listening to and working with local people
We have highlighted in the person specification key behaviours that underpin each criteria.