About the role
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full time Social Worker in the Care Home Support Team. The role is offered either as a 12 month secondment or on a 12 month fixed term contract.
The Care Home Support Team offers a fresh approach to supporting Care Homes, Nursing Homes and Supported Living settings across Cambridgeshire. We work alongside Care Home Managers, empowering them to find solutions to complex issues and coaching them through change management. The team works with Home Managers to understand the actions that are required, implement the necessary changes and help to embed a positive culture amongst staff within the home. The support is flexible, intensive and preventative. We work in partnership with the provider, Contracts team, CCG and other agencies to ensure effective and sustained change and delivery of high quality care to the residents.
The Care Home Support Team is a great team to be a part of. As an evolving team, we have the unique opportunity to be creative in our practice and shape the way in which we provide support to providers. The team has a strong emphasis on Social Work values and best practice. Within the team there is also dedicated time and space for reflection and learning.
For more information or an informal chat please contact Team Manager Lucy Roberts at lucy.roberts@cambridgeshire.gov.uk or call 07500 099685
Interviews will be held in person w/c 11th September
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.
What will you be doing?
You will work in a variety of ways with homes including face to face work, offering virtual support, and joint working with our colleagues from other quality practice teams (such as Contract monitoring, the Quality ICB team and the Medicines Optimising Team). You will provide practical support with areas such as:
- Care planning
- Risk assessments
- Mental Capacity Assessments
- Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
- Activities
- Technology Enabled Care
- Safeguarding responses
- Working with families
The support the team offer is in the form of mentoring support and completing assessments with carers and managers to ensure that they have the practical skills alongside the formal knowledge.
About you
We're looking for a confident, dynamic individual who enjoys building relationships, mentoring and exploring possibilities. We welcome applications from those who may not have direct experience but can demonstrate transferable skills over experience in a similar role.
You must:
- Be a qualified Social Worker with a Social Work England registration
- Have the ability to work from a variety of locations and travel countywide independently
For a full list of the requirements of the role, please check out the Job Description & Person Specification.
Our benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits:
- Flexible and creative working arrangements
- Flexible Bank Holidays
- A comprehensive wellbeing package
- Our Cambs Rewards employee discounts
- A comprehensive pension scheme
- IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
- Camweb our staff intranet helping to keep you informed
- An employee recognition scheme
For our Social Workers, we offer more specific benefits like:
- Generous annual leave provision (28 days, plus bank holidays)
- A supportive management team that will champion your learning and development
- Employee Assistance Programme – access to free support 24 hours a day
- Payment for business mileage expenses (45p per mile, and for the 2022/2023 financial year an additional fuel allowance for those driving over 300 business miles each month)
- A relocation package of up to £8000 for eligible candidates
- Plus, 6 days of protected time each year to enable our Social Workers to maintain their Continuous Professional Development.
Please read our benefits brochure attached for more information.
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 believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.
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.
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