East London NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a dedicated and experienced Senior Social Worker to join its committed team. This pivotal role is ideal for a qualified social work professional who holds valid registration with Social Work England and an appropriate social work qualification.
As a Senior Social Worker, you will play a vital part in delivering high-quality, person-centred care and support to service users, working within a multidisciplinary team to make a positive difference in the local community.
The Trust welcomes applications from both UK-based and eligible international candidates — a Certificate of Sponsorship is available for candidates who meet the Home Office requirements.
This is an excellent opportunity to advance your social work career within one of the UK’s most respected NHS Foundation Trusts, committed to supporting professional development and outstanding patient care.
About the Trust
East London NHS Foundation Trust provides a wide range of mental health, community health, primary care, wellbeing, and inpatient services to young people, working age adults, and older adults across the City of London, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Bedfordshire, and Luton.
Position: Senior Social Worker
Salary: £46,148 – £52,809 per annum
Job Type: Full Time
Location: London
About the Role:
ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people’s lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard Community Mental Health Teams provide compassionate person-centred interventions to people experiencing mental ill-health in the Towns of Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard.
All Social Workers in the mental health teams have access to a host of brand new facilities at the newly opened Grove View Health and care hub!
The new hub strengthens ELFT’s award winning social care presence and ethos.
Main duties of the job
- As a Senior Social Worker, you will act as the champion and leader of social care and safeguarding in the Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard Mental Health Teams.
- You will be expected to give robust, consistent, and expert social care practice advice in partnership with specialist senior social care and health colleagues.
- You will promote high quality, recovery-focused and cost-effective social care services to service users and their carers, focused on the principles of choice, control and independence, as well as ensuring safety.
Person Specification
Essential
- An appropriate social work qualification
Essential
- Registration with Social Work England
Essential
- Master’s degree or equivalent post-qualifying training
Desirable
- Other relevant post-qualification training (e.g .CBT, family therapy, Best Interest Assessor training
Essential
- Approved Mental Health Professional training and qualification (or prepared to undertake training within a year of appointment to role)
Essential
- Relevant post-qualifying training for social workers
Essential
- Substantial post-qualification experience with demonstrable evidence of excellent practice at advanced level
Essential
- Extensive knowledge of legislation, statutory guidance, theory, and policy in relation to adult and children’s social care
Essential
- Experience of undertaking assessment focused on personalisation, choice and control, and care planning
Essential
- Understanding of and experience of use of personal budgets and direct payments
- Experience of supervising and mentoring others
- Evidence of multidisciplinary and collaborative working
- Evidence of partnership working with service users and carers, demonstrating dignity and respect, particularly in very challenging situations
- Excellent ability to communicate with a wide range of stakeholders, including service users and carers, other professionals and colleagues, members of other organisations and locally communities – verbally and in writing
- Evidence of successful management of challenging meetings
- Experience of using electronic record systems and ability to produce accurate, appropriate, and timely reports
- Ability to analyse service user and carer information
- Experience of undertaking small scale audits and surveys
- Understanding of basic research methods
- Demonstrable ability to working sensitively with diverse needs and environments
- Commitment to anti-discriminatory practice
Benefits
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications
Required Documents
- CV/Resume
- Cover Letter
Application Process
APPLY NOW to join a team where your compassion and commitment will be valued and supported.
Application Deadline
July 24, 2025