About the role
Overview of the Learning Disability Team/Service:
The Learning Disability Team provides specialist support to adults with learning disabilities, ensuring that they receive the right care, support, accommodation, education, and health services to achieve positive outcomes. The service works collaboratively with individuals, families, carers, health professionals, education providers, and community organisations to promote independence, wellbeing, safety, and inclusion.
Impact of the Role on the Organisation
The role within the Learning Disability Team has a significant impact on both the organisation and the individuals it serves. It contributes to:
Improved outcomes for individuals and families by ensuring timely assessments, interventions, and support arrangements. Safeguarding and risk management, protecting vulnerable individuals and ensuring statutory responsibilities are met. Efficient use of resources through effective commissioning, care planning, and placement management.
Service improvement and quality assurance by monitoring performance and driving best practice. Partnership working, strengthening relationships with health, education, housing, and community services. Reduced placement breakdowns and crisis interventions through proactive support and robust planning.
Successful transitions and independence planning, helping individuals achieve greater autonomy and community inclusion. Compliance with statutory duties, ensuring the organisation meets its legal obligations under relevant social care and equality legislation.
This is a part-time opportunity, working 26 hours per week.
To have an informal conversation about this role, please contact Nadine Gwendu on Nadine.Gwendu@cambridgeshire.gov.uk or Eleanor Rix on Eleanor.Rix@cambridgeshire.gov.uk.
Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to reflect this diversity, which we believe is beneficial for our employees, the organisation, and the communities we serve.
While we welcome applications from individuals with right to work in the UK requiring sponsorship, this cannot be guaranteed, as there are restrictions in place under UKVI guidance. Due to these restrictions, only those with specific exemptions meet the salary requirements for sponsorship. Please note, this role is eligible for sponsorship under a Skilled Visa, however it is not eligible for sponsorship under a Health & Care visa.
What will you be doing?
Day to Day tasks and duties include (but are not limited to) the following:
Assessing the needs of people with learning disabilities and their families. Developing and reviewing care and support plans. Safeguarding vulnerable adults.
Attending the Quality Assurance Forum to request for placements and support packages. Working in partnership with health services, housing, and voluntary organisations. Promoting independence and reducing reliance on long-term institutional care where appropriate.
Ensuring compliance with relevant legislation, policy, and best practice. Undertaking duty and completing duty tasks. Attending the MDTs.
About you
Skills and Experience:
Strong assessment and care planning skills, with the ability to identify needs, strengths, risks, and desired outcomes. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, enabling the development of positive relationships with service users, families, carers, and partner agencies.
Effective safeguarding knowledge and the ability to recognise, assess, and respond appropriately to safeguarding concerns. Strong organisational and time-management skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and a complex caseload.
Ability to undertake strengths-based, person-centred assessments and reviews. Effective report writing and record-keeping skills, ensuring accurate and timely documentation. Problem-solving and decision-making skills, particularly in complex situations requiring multi-agency involvement.
Ability to work collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams and across partner organisations. Good IT skills and experience using electronic case management systems. Ability to work both independently and as part of a multi-disciplinary team. Ability to work from a variety of locations and travel countywide independently.
For a full list of the requirements of the role, please refer the Job Description and Person Specification.
Our benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…
- A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
- 6 days of protected time each year to support in maintaining your Continuous Professional Development
- A pay progression scheme to enable you to accelerate through the pay grade as you gain experience and skills
- A Refer a Friend Scheme where if you refer another Social Worker to us who is subsequently employed by us as a result of that introduction, we’ll pay you an introduction fee of £350
- Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
For more information and to see our other benefits, take a look at the benefits brochure attached to this advert.
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Through a Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we will offer an interview to all applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy. On your application form you can indicate you are disabled. Some examples of reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers
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