Having recently launched our Adult Customer Journey (ACJ), we have exciting opportunities for passionate people who want to make a real difference to adult social care to join us.

We focus on delivering high quality, person-centred social care and our ACJ pathway ensures that adult social care users receive good quality service from point of first contact through to the provision of long term support.

Our employees enjoy being part of Royal Greenwich, Health and Adult services and highly value the organisation’s supportive culture and leadership.

We pride ourselves on our:

Supportive Managers – wehighly value the supportive relationships between managers and colleagues.

Manageable caseloads -  we also value having manageable caseloads meaning we have time to develop professional relationships with service users and provide a high quality service to our service users.

CPD opportunities - we value our staff and want to invest in their future. Employees have access to CPD opportunities which can lead to progression through the service.

A stable workforce - people like working for Greenwich and want to stay .

Employee job satisfaction – our person centered approach means that our employees get more job satisfaction by enabling them towork alongside service users in an outcome focused way, using strengths based, person centred and evidenced based practice.

South East London Teaching Partnership and other HEI’s  - Greenwich has  shown strong leadership within the Teaching Partnership with Goldsmiths. We also work closely with Goldsmiths and Greenwich University to enhance the link between theory and  practice and academic learning.

Strong Links between the NHS, Oxleas NHS Trust and  Greenwich Clinical Commissioning Group – We have several integrated multi-disciplinary teams within Health and Adult Services

We have the below opportunity in the following teams:

• Level 2 Social Workers
• - Joint Emergeny Team
• -Community Rehabilitation & Short Term Assessment Team
• - Hospital Integrated Dicharge Team
• Complex Care Team

Benefits include:

• Flexible working as agreed by your Manager
• Travel costs worth £1k+, OR Essential car user car parking (close to the workplace)
• Social Worker career progression scheme, and support from a Professional Educator
• Excellent pension scheme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Childcare Vouchers
• Greenwich Card entitling you to discounts at local businesses.
• Good range of support for NQSWs including from a Professional Educator

The Royal Borough of Greenwich is an exciting and vibrant London Borough. It is home to the Meridian Line, Cutty Sark, the Royal Observatory, the National Maritime Museum, and the Old Royal Naval College including the fabulous Painted Hall, London’s cable car, Greenwich Market, Greenwich Park and The O2 arena. Greenwich has an abundance of green open spaces for recreational purposes and offers some of the cheapest and affordable housing in London.

The borough has excellent transport links, the DLR, Thames Clipper, London Overground and the Elizabeth Line. Greenwich’s diversity is evident to all who visit our borough and our long history of ethnic and cultural diversity has created a place that is treasured by those who live and work here.

The main council offices are in Woolwich, which are in the centre of the borough. Woolwich is an area of extensive regeneration including the Woolwich Creative District.  All the above positions are either in or in the vicinity of Woolwich, which has excellent transport links and all the amenities of a shopping area

If you like the sound of working in a stimulating and vibrant environment , please apply below or get in touch with us today by calling Lisette Wybourn (0208 921 2316) or Dawn Williams (0208 921 5075) or  0208921  2202.

Royal Borough of Greenwich is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. Any roles which involve working with children, young people or vulnerable adults, or roles in which the duties will involve access to sensitive information relating to children, young people or vulnerable adults, the Royal Borough will take up references prior to interview. You should provide details of referees including your current and previous employers, covering the last 5 years. Candidates can request for us not to send a reference request to their current employer prior to interview by emailing us at recruitment@royalgreenwich.gov.uk. As part of our Safer Recruitment Policy, a full employment history is also required for this role. Please provide a full employment history, together with a satisfactory written explanation of any gaps in employment. Unless otherwise stated, a Basic DBS check will be undertaken as part of the pre-employment checks for successful candidates.

Royal Borough of Greenwich values the diversity of its community and aims to have a workforce that reflects this. We therefore encourage applications from all sections of the community.

Royal Borough of Greenwich reserves the right to close any vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date should there be a high volume of applications received.

This role requires an Enhanced DBS. (This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act,1974)

All vacancies close at midnight unless otherwise stated

A full employment history is required for this role. Please provide a full employment history, together with a satisfactory written explanation of any gaps in employment.

Each application is scored according to how well the supporting statement addresses each point on the Person Specification for the role. Candidates will be short-listed for interview on the extent to which they meet the specific points within the Person Specification. The Person Specification is supplied with the job advert. When completing your application, please use the supporting statement section to tell us how you meet each of the points on the Person Specification. We need to have this information in order to consider your application. If you have a disability and are unable to meet some of the job requirements specifically because of your disability, please address this in your application. If you meet all the other criteria, you will be shortlisted and we will explore jointly with you if there are ways in which the job can be changed to enable you to meet the requirements.,