Experienced Social Worker - Review Team
| Posting date: | 08 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £38,648 to £43,418 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 05 May 2024 |
| Location: | Reading, Berkshire |
| Company: | Reading Borough Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
We are seeking an experienced and qualified Social Worker to become a valuable member of the Review Team in our Adult Social Care department at Reading Borough Council. Regardless of where you currently stand in your career, we are dedicated to providing the necessary support and opportunities for your professional development.
In the role of a Social Worker at Reading Borough Council, you will be a member of a welcoming and supportive team. We are seeking individuals who can exhibit excellent communication skills and possess the capability to establish and sustain relationships with colleagues, service users, and healthcare providers.
We seek the best talent from the widest pool of people as diversity and inclusion is the key to our success. Reading Borough Council is a Disability Confident Employer and is committed to the recruitment and continued employment of people with disabilities.
About the Role:
You will be an experienced, registered Social Worker, with considerable post qualifying experience and have a range of social care knowledge, including experience of community working and safeguarding. Transferable skills can be considered.
The Review Team collaborates closely with other teams engaged in the provision of Adult Social Care. Our main objective is to promptly assess current care and support, employing a strengths-based approach to work with individuals in order to enhance wellbeing, uphold rights, foster independence, and facilitate positive outcomes.
In addition we work closely with health colleagues to consider Continuing Healthcare alongside our Care Act duties.
Our aim is to be a high performing, efficient, multidisciplinary team with a clear Team purpose and values that support staff and values the skills and diversity within and around the team.
You will hold a varied caseload and contribute to the team performance and positive outcomes for our residents.
This post offers opportunities to improve your skills and experience in Adult Social Care with high quality, client-led, interventions to service users in their own homes, in a friendly and supportive team.
You will work within the legal framework provided by the statute, guidance, policies and procedures.
You will need to have:
A degree or equivalent in Social Work
Registration with Social Work England
Understanding of the Care Act 2014
We offer excellent support, supervision and induction. You will have access to our Learning and Development programme and be supported in your career and personal growth with opportunities to learn and develop new clinical skills, helping you to build your Continuing Professional Development portfolio, extending your skills and supporting you to grow as a social worker.
You’ll be part of a team that relies on each individual to play their part to the best of their ability. As well as the colleagues that you work closely with every day, you’ll also be part of Team Reading, playing your personal part in making Reading a successful and vibrant place.
Our vision is to ensure that Reading realises its potential as a great place to live, work and play, and that everyone shares the benefits of this success. Our values and behaviours guide how we will achieve this:
Work Together as one team - work collaboratively, with each other and with our partners, and demonstrate the Team Reading values in everything we do
Drive Efficiency - show initiative, be adaptable to change and put forward ideas to help improve delivery and efficiency. Take responsibility for our own learning and development and for reaching our potential
Be Ambitious - be demanding of our own performance – striving to be even better – and be prepared to engage with and challenge leaders in a constructive and positive way
Make a Difference to Reading - maintain the highest levels of customer service and be flexible and willing to provide the services needed at the time they are needed
Our offer
A competitive salary alongside a range of benefits including:
Generous holiday entitlement - 25 days holiday each year plus bank holidays - rising to 33 days after 10 years' service, with the option to buy additional leave
Maternity, adoption, parental and sick pay
A wide range of flexible working opportunities
Access to a range of training and learning opportunities to help you develop
Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
On-site day nursery (Kennet Day nursery) rated outstanding by Ofsted
Season Ticket Loan - a loan to help with the cost of your rail or bus journey, to and from work
Lease car salary sacrifice scheme allowing you to lease a brand new, greener car for three years. The monthly fee includes insurance, servicing and road tax
Salary sacrifice scheme for Additional Voluntary Contributions (AVCs) to help you save for your retirement
Closing date: Applications reviewed on receipt
Interview date: To be confirmed
If you would like to find out more about this role and the team, please contact Sandra Sheldon (Review Team Manager) on 07834 802 697 or Sandra.sheldon@reading.gov.uk
Please note that the closing date is given as a guide. We reserve the right to close this vacancy once a sufficient number of applications has been received. Therefore, it is strongly advised that you complete and return your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
In the role of a Social Worker at Reading Borough Council, you will be a member of a welcoming and supportive team. We are seeking individuals who can exhibit excellent communication skills and possess the capability to establish and sustain relationships with colleagues, service users, and healthcare providers.
We seek the best talent from the widest pool of people as diversity and inclusion is the key to our success. Reading Borough Council is a Disability Confident Employer and is committed to the recruitment and continued employment of people with disabilities.
About the Role:
You will be an experienced, registered Social Worker, with considerable post qualifying experience and have a range of social care knowledge, including experience of community working and safeguarding. Transferable skills can be considered.
The Review Team collaborates closely with other teams engaged in the provision of Adult Social Care. Our main objective is to promptly assess current care and support, employing a strengths-based approach to work with individuals in order to enhance wellbeing, uphold rights, foster independence, and facilitate positive outcomes.
In addition we work closely with health colleagues to consider Continuing Healthcare alongside our Care Act duties.
Our aim is to be a high performing, efficient, multidisciplinary team with a clear Team purpose and values that support staff and values the skills and diversity within and around the team.
You will hold a varied caseload and contribute to the team performance and positive outcomes for our residents.
This post offers opportunities to improve your skills and experience in Adult Social Care with high quality, client-led, interventions to service users in their own homes, in a friendly and supportive team.
You will work within the legal framework provided by the statute, guidance, policies and procedures.
You will need to have:
A degree or equivalent in Social Work
Registration with Social Work England
Understanding of the Care Act 2014
We offer excellent support, supervision and induction. You will have access to our Learning and Development programme and be supported in your career and personal growth with opportunities to learn and develop new clinical skills, helping you to build your Continuing Professional Development portfolio, extending your skills and supporting you to grow as a social worker.
You’ll be part of a team that relies on each individual to play their part to the best of their ability. As well as the colleagues that you work closely with every day, you’ll also be part of Team Reading, playing your personal part in making Reading a successful and vibrant place.
Our vision is to ensure that Reading realises its potential as a great place to live, work and play, and that everyone shares the benefits of this success. Our values and behaviours guide how we will achieve this:
Work Together as one team - work collaboratively, with each other and with our partners, and demonstrate the Team Reading values in everything we do
Drive Efficiency - show initiative, be adaptable to change and put forward ideas to help improve delivery and efficiency. Take responsibility for our own learning and development and for reaching our potential
Be Ambitious - be demanding of our own performance – striving to be even better – and be prepared to engage with and challenge leaders in a constructive and positive way
Make a Difference to Reading - maintain the highest levels of customer service and be flexible and willing to provide the services needed at the time they are needed
Our offer
A competitive salary alongside a range of benefits including:
Generous holiday entitlement - 25 days holiday each year plus bank holidays - rising to 33 days after 10 years' service, with the option to buy additional leave
Maternity, adoption, parental and sick pay
A wide range of flexible working opportunities
Access to a range of training and learning opportunities to help you develop
Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
On-site day nursery (Kennet Day nursery) rated outstanding by Ofsted
Season Ticket Loan - a loan to help with the cost of your rail or bus journey, to and from work
Lease car salary sacrifice scheme allowing you to lease a brand new, greener car for three years. The monthly fee includes insurance, servicing and road tax
Salary sacrifice scheme for Additional Voluntary Contributions (AVCs) to help you save for your retirement
Closing date: Applications reviewed on receipt
Interview date: To be confirmed
If you would like to find out more about this role and the team, please contact Sandra Sheldon (Review Team Manager) on 07834 802 697 or Sandra.sheldon@reading.gov.uk
Please note that the closing date is given as a guide. We reserve the right to close this vacancy once a sufficient number of applications has been received. Therefore, it is strongly advised that you complete and return your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
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