Social Worker (Housing 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

Bridging Housing and Social Care to Transform Outcomes for Residents.

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.

The ambition is simple: fewer gaps, fewer hand-offs and better outcomes for residents. That approach complements Clarion's existing vulnerability model, which is centred on coordinated, outcome-focused support, early intervention, reduced harm, improved wellbeing and independence, sustainable tenancies and stronger partnership working.

Why we're creating this role

Housing is about much more than bricks and mortar. A secure, appropriate home can be fundamental to someone's health, independence, safety and connection to their community.

Clarion's Five New Giants of Opportunity report identifies Connection, Resilience, Sufficiency, Trust and Health as the foundations of a new social contract for housing and calls for fresh thinking and partnership working beyond traditional organisational boundaries. The report was published in November 2025 and examines the changing social, economic, technological and demographic pressures affecting residents and communities.

Our Resident Strategy builds on this thinking. It recognises that housing is connected to wellbeing, finances, safety and community life, while focusing on good homes, dependable services and relationships built on trust. The Social Worker (Housing) will help us turn those ambitions into practice.

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.

This complements Clarion's established approach of person-centred practice, named ownership, accessible communication, risk and outcome review, resident voice and "partnership by design".

Partnership will be at the heart of the role.

We don't expect one organisation or one professional to have all the answers.

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.

This reflects Clarion's strategic call for greater cross-sector collaboration with health, local authorities and community partners. You’ll be a connector as much as a practitioner.

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 disabilities, autism and neurodiversity, physical disability, self-neglect and hoarding, homelessness or housing instability, domestic abuse, substance use, hospital discharge, community-based social work and multi-agency risk management.

An opportunity to shape something new

Because this is a new role, you won't be stepping into a finished model. You’ll help us develop it.

You'll bring professional social work expertise into housing while helping Clarion learn what a stronger housing-social care interface can achieve. Your insight will help us identify recurring barriers, strengthen referral and escalation pathways, develop colleagues' practice and shape future partnerships.

If you're a qualified social worker who wants to use your professional expertise differently and help redesign the relationship between housing and social care, we'd like to hear from you.

Come and help us bridge the gap between housing and social care and create better outcomes with and for our residents.

Why join us?

• Pension contribution – we’ll match your pension contributions up to 10% of your salary.
• Annual company bonus – be rewarded for our collective success.
• Family-friendly from day one – enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption, surrogacy, shared parental, fertility and fostering leave.
• Up to 33 days’ holiday – starting at 25 days, increasing with your service, plus the option to buy or sell up to 5 days.
• A wellbeing day on us – take a paid day during your birthday month to celebrate, rest or recharge.
• Life Event Leave – five additional paid days each year to support you through life’s important moments.
• Give back – enjoy a paid volunteering day every year and opportunities to make a difference in your community.
• Flexible benefits worth 1% of your salary – choose benefits that matter to you, from dental insurance to critical illness cover and carbon offsetting.
• 700+ discounts – save on shopping, travel, meals, days out and more.

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If this sounds like an opportunity for you, then please review the full role profile Social Worker (Housing Practice) and Behaviours & Mandatory Accountabilities OD Level 4 before applying.

Act now – apply today! This vacancy may close early without notice.  

Closing Date: Thursday 12th November 2026 at midnight.

This is a hybrid role with a base location at one of our offices, candidates will be expected to work from the office when required.

If you live outside the M25, your salary will be based on your location and aligned to the National pay scale.

Applicants must be able to travel across the region as required.

This post is subject to Enhanced Child Criminal Record Check Clearance.

You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy; Clarion are not able to offer visa sponsorship. You are required to reside in England or Wales for the duration of your employment.

About Us

Clarion Housing Group formed in 2016, following the merger between two of the country’s largest housing associations, Affinity Sutton and Circle Housing Group. With over 125,000 homes we use our strength and scale to create opportunities that change peoples’ lives.

We are also one of the biggest housebuilders in the country and are set to build 50,000 high quality homes of all tenures during the next ten years, as we remain committed to helping to tackle the housing shortage and to prioritising affordable homes.

In addition to new homes, we transform existing communities through sustained regeneration, helping people to access employment and training opportunities and giving young people a better start in life.

To find out more about working for Clarion, please click here.