# Social Worker – Assertive Outreach (Severe & Multiple Disadvantage)

**Company**: Harrow Council
**Location**: London Borough of Harrow, Greater London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: GBP 43,815 - 52,365 per year
**Category**: Social Care
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are recruiting an experienced and values-driven Social Worker to join our MHLDA Adult Social Care team, working with adults who are rough sleeping or at imminent risk of rough sleeping and who have Care Act-eligible needs.

This role sits within the MHLDA Front Door and focuses on proactive, relationship-based engagement with adults experiencing multiple and compounding disadvantage, including mental ill-health, substance misuse, trauma, cognitive impairment, executive dysfunction, and insecure immigration status (including NRPF).

You will work with a reduced caseload, reflecting the intensity and complexity of the work, and will undertake assertive outreach alongside statutory assessment, safeguarding, and system leadership.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Proactively engage adults who are rough sleeping or at risk of rough sleeping in community and voluntary sector settings (e.g. homelessness hubs, drop-ins, outreach venues).

- Undertake Care Act 2014 assessments, including complex eligibility decision-making.

- Complete Mental Capacity Act (MCA) assessments, including where capacity is fluctuating or impaired by mental ill-health, substance use or executive dysfunction.

- Initiate and lead Section 42 safeguarding enquiries where statutory thresholds are met.

- Apply Human Rights Assessments (HRAs), particularly in NRPF and complex immigration cases.

- Work closely with Housing, Public Health, CNWL, NWL, and voluntary sector partners to coordinate responses and prevent entrenchment in rough sleeping.

- Provide professional advice and consultation to voluntary sector colleagues, supporting earlier identification of Care Act needs.

- Contribute to learning from Safeguarding Adult Reviews (SARs) and mortality reviews.

- Maintain clear, defensible recording and analysis, aligned with Making Safeguarding Personal (MSP).

**About You**

- Be a qualified social worker (Social Work England registered).

- Have significant post-qualifying experience in mental health, learning disability, homelessness, or safeguarding.

- Be confident applying the Care Act, MCA, safeguarding duties, and human rights frameworks in complex situations.

- Have experience of working with people who struggle to engage with traditional services.

- Be comfortable working outside office environments and adapting your approach to build trust over time.

- Bring a trauma-informed, strengths-based and anti-discriminatory practice approach.

- Be resilient, reflective, and able to work effectively within a small specialist team.

**Why Join Us**

- Be part of an innovative, prevention-focused response to rough sleeping and inclusion health.

- Work with manageable caseloads that allow for meaningful social work.

- Shape practice at the interface of safeguarding, homelessness, health and human rights.

- Make a tangible impact in reducing harm, crisis and premature mortality.

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## Skills

### Required
- Care Act
- Mental Capacity Act
- safeguarding
- human rights
- trauma-informed practice

### Nice to have
- experience working with homeless populations
- experience working with complex cases

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