Careers in Adult social work

In Brent Adult Social Care our vision is unlocking possibilities and abilities.

So what does this mean for you?

It means we will support you to practice with innovation and work with residents to enable them to be independent and well. It means we seek to look at strengths and abilities, working collaboratively so people can lead the life of their choice.

It means we focus on your abilities, with an unrivalled learning and development offer that has multiple diverse career pathways and opportunities to fund bespoke learning opportunities. Whether you want to become an Approved Mental Health Professional, move into management, or specialise in areas such as safeguarding or technology enabled care, we have a pathway that will enable you to reach further.

Grow your career in Brent now, there’s never been a better time.

Rewards and benefits

Here are just some of the benefits you could experience:

• flexible working and potential to work from home up to four days per week
• brand new key worker housing apartments on the Wembley Park site, close to lots of shops, restaurants and leisure opportunities
• excellent IT for both home and in the community when on visits, including home office equipment
• diverse workforce who celebrate different cultures, experiences and each other, including commitment to Workforce Race Equality Standards
• strength based practice approach with career opportunities for everyone through Skills Academy
• a very generous Local Government Pension Scheme
• great transportation links close by and parking available
• and a host of other rewards and benefits, such as reduced cost gym membership, London Designer Outlet privilege care, and much more.

Don’t just take our word for it on how rewarding it is working for Brent Adult Social Care, but listen to what our staff, service users and partners have had to say.

Skills Academy

Our Skills Academy can help you grow, and this is how. The Brent ASC Skills Academy is a dedicated function within the department that focuses on meeting the learning and development needs of the Adult Social Care workforce

In addition to all the mandatory core training you would expect to have access to for your role, Skills Academy also offers the following for permanent members of Brent staff:

• opportunities to personally apply for relevant fully funded training and qualifications
• 4 fully funded qualification options such as AHMP, Practice Educator and Social Work & OT Apprenticeships
• 2 dedicated ‘Practice weeks’ a year where we host a whole week of bite sized webinars from subject matter experts, talking about topics that matter to you
• 6 ‘Champion’ roles to apply for each year on important subjects such as domestic abuse and mental capacity - each comes with a £1000 personal development budget
• access to externally facilitated and internal forums, including MCA, Practice Forum and dedicated sessions for AYSE & NQSW Critical thinking sessions
• access to directorate-wide development schemes such as mentoring and our bespoke leadership programme
• reactive and ad hoc training commissions to address learning needs proactively as they arise, available department-wide.
• access to externally facilitated topical webinars hosted by subject matter experts through our partnership with University of Bedfordshire. 

To book a place at these events please email mrc@beds.ac.uk.