Social Worker Fenland Community
| Posting date: | 28 March 2024 |
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| Salary: | £38,258.00 to £40,958.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £38258.00 - £40958.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 April 2024 |
| Location: | March, PE15 8NE |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | F0063-24-0056 |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Fenland Adult Community Team for twofull time Social Workers. We are looking to recruit experienced, enthusiastic, registered Qualified Social Workers who arestrongly 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 willbe 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 isHereward 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 atjasmine.osbourne@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 toapply, 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. Our benefits We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits: Flexible and creativeworking arrangements Flexible Bank Holidays A comprehensivewellbeing package Our Cambs Rewardsemployee discounts A comprehensivepension scheme IDEALstaff equality, diversity and inclusion network Camwebour staff intranet helping to keep you informed An employeerecognition scheme For our Social Workers, we offer more specific benefits like: Generousannual leaveprovision (28 days, plus bank holidays) Asupportive management teamthat will champion your learning and development Employee Assistance Programme access to free support 24 hours a day Payment forbusiness mileage expenses Scalableretention paymentsto loyal social workers in specific teams after the first full year of employment, starting at £900which increases during the first three years of service A pay progression scheme to enable our Social Workers to accelerate through the pay grade as you gain experience and skills. Arelocation packageof up to £8000 for eligible candidates Plus, 6 days of protected time each year to enable our Social Workers to maintain theirContinuous Professional Development. Please read ourbenefits brochureattached for more information. 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 beexpected to havegood working knowledge, experience and understanding of the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act, and other relevant legislation. You will have experiencein completing Safeguarding Adult Enquiries, assessments, and reviews with older people in a timely manner. Experienceinrecord keeping procedures, IT skills and working as a member of a team are essential, along with very good organisational skills. The post holderwill 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 havethe ability towork 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 andPerson Specification. 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 dont meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please dont 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. 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