Location
Tooley St, London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
£55,710 per annum

About the Role
Do you see yourself making a real difference in the lives of people with learning disabilities? Can you lead and support a high-performing social work duty team with confidence and compassion? If yes, we have the perfect role for you! Our All Age Disability and Learning Disability Service is looking for a passionate and dedicated Duty Senior Practitioner to join our team and help improve outcomes for our diverse communities.

This is an exciting opportunity to lead and manage the integrated duty team within Southwark’s All Age Disability and Learning Disability Service. You will provide daily oversight of duty work, including incoming safeguarding referrals, urgent placements, unallocated cases, and short-term interventions. You will supervise a small team of social workers and an assistant practitioner, ensuring that all incoming work is triaged, managed effectively and progressed in a timely, person-centred way.

You’ll play a key role in shaping a responsive, high-quality front-door service for adults and young people with learning disabilities and/or other disabilities.

Our All Age Disability (0–25) and Learning Disability (25+) Service provides a seamless care pathway for children, young people and adults with learning disabilities and other disabilities. The adult duty function plays a central role in the team — acting as the first point of contact for adults, coordinating initial responses, and ensuring cases are appropriately assessed, allocated and progressed.

We are a values-led, inclusive and supportive team, committed to professional development, reflective supervision and co-production with service users and carers. We also work closely with colleagues across health, education and other council departments, offering a collaborative and multi-agency approach to improving lives.

This post requires a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at Enhanced level.

In your role, we want you to feel supported, challenged and rewarded. You will benefit from our family-friendly policies including flexible working, home working, and a local government pension scheme, plus many other staff benefits. You will join a motivated, driven and supportive team that strives for excellence and values its members. You will also be part of a successful and high-achieving development team that is making a real difference to the lives of residents in the borough.

Experience
- Qualified social worker, registered with Social Work England
- Experience managing or supervising staff within a social care setting
- Confident in triaging complex cases and overseeing safeguarding and urgent interventions
- Skilled in strength-based assessment, outcome-focused planning, and statutory decision-making
- Experienced in using data, performance information, and audit tools to drive improvement
- Capable of quality-assuring practice and leading service developments

About you
- Committed and confident social work leader
- Clear communicator, strong team player, and effective problem-solver
- Committed to anti-discriminatory practice and continuous improvement

Qualifications
- Registered social worker qualification with Social Work England