Social Worker; Practice

Location:

Hybrid role - flexible across all regions with link to nearest office base
Salary:
London - £50,849 - £63,561 per annum / National - £46,885 - £58,607 per annum

Hours:

36 per week
Contract Type:
Permanent

At Clarion, we believe everyone deserves to feel safe, supported and secure in their home. We're introducing a new kind of social work role.

What if housing and social care worked together around the person, rather than residents having to navigate the boundaries between different organisations?

We want to help make that happen. We're creating a new Social Worker (Housing) role, bringing professional social work expertise directly into our housing environment and helping us build stronger connections between housing, adult social care, health, safeguarding and community services.

This is an opportunity to help shape a role from the beginning. You'll work alongside housing colleagues and external partners to find solutions for residents whose circumstances cannot be addressed by housing intervention alone. Your focus will be on understanding the whole person, their home, strengths, relationships, risks and aspirations, and bringing the right organisations together around them.

What you'll do

You’ll bring a professional social work perspective to some of the situations where housing, health and social care intersect.

This role will provide specialist social work expertise to support residents experiencing vulnerability, helping them achieve positive outcomes through strengths-based, person-centred practice. You’ll undertake holistic assessments, identify risks and support needs, and work with residents to develop practical solutions where housing and social care issues are closely connected. You’ll build strong relationships with statutory and community partners, including Adult Social Care, the NHS, mental health services and safeguarding teams, ensuring coordinated and effective support for residents.

The successful candidate will contribute to complex case discussions, safeguarding processes and multi-agency planning, bringing professional knowledge of the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005 and adult safeguarding principles into a housing setting. You’ll also support colleagues to navigate social care pathways, identify opportunities to improve partnership working, and use learning from individual cases to influence service development and improve outcomes across the organisation.

The role will seek to strengthen the interface between housing, social care, health and the voluntary and community sector, enabling partners to build solutions around residents rather than organisational boundaries. That means developing relationships with partners, understanding their statutory responsibilities and pressures, and creating routes through which information, professional expertise and interventions can come together around the resident.

The person we’re looking for

We’re looking for someone who is professionally curious, practical and determined to make systems work better for people. You’ll be comfortable moving between two worlds: understanding the statutory framework and professional standards of social work while recognising the realities of housing management and tenancy sustainment.

You won’t simply identify why something cannot be done. You’ll help residents and partners work out what can be done, who needs to be involved and how we get there.

You’ll be able to challenge constructively, influence across organisational boundaries and build relationships with professionals from different disciplines while keeping the resident’s voice at the centre.

We would be especially interested in experience involving adult social care, mental health, safeguarding adults, older people, learning…