Posts by southwarkasdev

When I joined Southwark six years ago as an agency social worker in the Mental Health Reablement Team, I had no idea that it would lead to an amazing career journey in Southwark Adult Social Care. Along the way, I have had the chance to work with different teams, face new challenges, and be inspired…

Acting as an Assistant Director, I now oversee all older people and people with physical disabilities services. I have responsibility for a range of resources for clients. I deal with varied crises and emergencies on a daily basis, the good and bad; it happens and I became resilient and adapt quickly. Despite it being busy,…

Here in Adults Social Care we listen to people and know that we need to spend time to understand how they truly feel.   As Service Development Manager, my focus is to help adult social care as a department deliver on good outcomes for people because I know we can make a difference and that…

When I started working for Southwark, I joined as a locum Social worker within the Intermediate Care Southwark team. It is an integrated service between Southwark Council and Guy’s and St Thomas hospital comprising of social workers, pharmacists, nurses, occupational therapists, physiotherapists and reablement support workers. It was a real melting pot of different professionals…

I joined Southwark Adult Social Care at the end of March 2022 so am still relatively new to the borough. Having spent the vast majority of my working life in a neighbouring borough, moving over to Southwark was an exciting yet daunting new venture. I am pleased to say that my initial anxieties were swiftly…

I have worked as a social worker within the Adults Learning Disabilities/All Age Disabilities Teams for 9.5 years. Through my role with Southwark I have learnt to complete community DOLS (Deprivation of Liberty Safeguard), Court reports, improve in completing complex Care Act assessments, trained as a Best Interest Assessor as well as developed skills in…

I joined Southwark Children’s and Adult’s Social Care two and a half years ago as an Assistant Practitioner. Through my work, I have learnt about how the All Age Disability social work team operates to ensure children and families are supported with short breaks and are encouraged to use the service to help the children…

I have been employed by Southwark directly in my current role since April 2018. Before that I worked in the hospital discharge team in both St Thomas’ Hospital and Kings as a locum social worker on my return to London after several years working in a variety of specialist social work and management roles in…

In March 2018 I joined Southwark as a locum Commissioning Officer.  At this stage in my career I didn’t know much about the community, I just knew that I wanted to move to London, and Southwark was the first interesting opportunity that presented itself. My first impressions of Southwark is that, as an organisation there…