About the role
An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Fenland Adult Community Team for a full time Social Worker.
We are looking to recruit an experienced, enthusiastic, registered Qualified Social Worker who is strongly committed to working in partnership with the people of Cambridgeshire.
If you are looking for a new challenge, and have the experience and skills to complete Care Act Assessments and Reviews and participate in promoting a learning environment, we would like to hear from you. You will be joining our established team of person centred, passionate, enthusiastic, and committed Social Work and Social Care Practitioners.
Our Community Teams are currently working to a hybrid model, with part-remote and flexible options available in line with our service needs. This includes 9 day fortnights and staggered start and finish times. Once fully trained, our Social Workers will work from the office up to three days each week, the office base for this team is Hereward Hall, March in Cambridgeshire. Office working has proven invaluable to our Social Workers as there are opportunities to share best practice, discuss cases and provide peer support. We hope your practice will benefit greatly from this collaborative working environment.
Should you need any further information please contact Jasmine Osbourne on 07393142462 or at jasmine.osbourne@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
We are looking for exceptional Social Workers to join us on our journey. For an informal discussion about our vacancies, contact Beth on 01480 372 425 or e-mail welovesocialworkers@cambridgeshire.gov.uk.
This is a rolling campaign, and we will review applications daily closing the advert as soon as we have filled the vacancy, so please don't wait to apply, you might miss out, we want to speak to you now!
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 be responsible for a caseload and will be expected to undertake and complete comprehensive Safeguarding Adult Enquires, complete Care Act Assessments and Reviews.
You will have the opportunity to work closely with partner agencies including health colleagues, regarding adults who have care and support needs, and carers providing Strengths Based, evidence-based assessment and reviewing intervention.
You will strive to promote the independence, choice, and control of service users to enable them to continue to live within their homes whether this is in the community or a care home environment.
There are opportunities to work towards a qualification such as Practice Educator or Best Interest Assessor.
About you
You will have had experience working with individuals with complex care and support needs, and will be expected to have good working knowledge, experience and understanding of the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act, and other relevant legislation.
You will have experience in completing Safeguarding Adult Enquiries, assessments, and reviews with older people in a timely manner. Experience in record keeping procedures, IT skills and working as a member of a team are essential, along with very good organisational skills.
The post holder will also be experienced in working to tight timescales and commissioning cost-effective, personalised support, to meet the assessed needs of the service users as part of the reviewing process.
Managing Safeguarding as part of Making Safeguarding Personal is part of the role and this can be offered as a development opportunity for the post holder.
You must 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 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 relocation package of up to £8,000 (eligibility applies)
- A pay progression scheme to enable you to accelerate through the pay grade as you gain experience and skills
- Scalable retention payments of up to £7,650 over a 3 year period, starting after your first full year of employment, in specific teams
- 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 Employer. 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. Some examples of adjustments 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.
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