Social Worker - Adult Social Care
| Posting date: | 09 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £35,745 to £42,403 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 05 May 2024 |
| Location: | Oxfordshire, South East England |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Oxfordshire County Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | OCC615469 |
Summary
Join our passionate, forward-thinking, multidisciplinary team during this exciting time of growth, delivering discharge to assess and reablement in the county of Oxfordshire. Alongside hospital based assessments where necessary. A team that gives you the autonomy to deliver creative interventions for the people you work with.
About us
Do you want to help us radically change the way we deliver social care?
Join Oxfordshire County Council on an exciting journey towards Delivering the Future Together, our ambitious transformation programme which is enabling us to be an employer, partner, and place shaper of choice. We’re seeking the right people who can help us get there while embracing our value of ‘daring to do it differently’, as we continue to strive to do better.
In Adult Services, this means we're daring to do adult social care differently by supporting Oxfordshire’s residents to stay fit, healthy and independent in their communities for as long as possible through a strength’s-based approach. Working with local NHS services, care providers and community and voluntary groups, we make the most of what each of our strengths are, pulling in the same direction, and united by one shared vision.
This means we keep the people we support at the heart of all that we do. And that works. By listening to people and building on the positives in their lives, we can work collaboratively to help them live the lives they want with the right support around them.
It is something we call the Oxfordshire Way and we can’t do it alone – our proactive, positive approach to social care gives everyone the opportunity to make a bigger difference. If we’re doing a good job, we don’t stand still – we’re ambitious and we’re always striving to do better; it’s in our DNA.
About the role
Our hospital discharge services are undergoing an exciting transformation to support the residents of Oxfordshire in having their needs assessed and met in their own homes where possible. Home First D2A, as a new service encourages creative thinking, ideas and innovations to support the development of the service from all our employees.
The post holder will be required to work flexibly and collaboratively across Adult Social Care and partner agencies to support and promote strong communities. Making a real difference to the people and communities we serve, now, and for the future, whilst ensuring that we are delivering value for money. Support is delivered through a strength-based approach to create opportunities, build resilience and long-term support networks so that people live their lives as successfully, independently, and as safely as possible. The post holder will work within the competency framework achieving completion and passing of progression to Grade 11, within the timescales set out in the criteria.
Rewards and benefits
*Up to 33 day’s holiday p.a. plus bank holidays - Option to ‘buy’ additional days.
*Membership of the Local Government contributory pension scheme, employer’s contribution of up to 19.9%.
*Relocation package up to a maximum of £8,000 to cover reimbursement of expenses for newly appointed employees (conditions apply in line with Council Policy).
*Regular weekly and monthly formal and informal support and supervision.
*Local and national discounts for shopping and travel
*Extensive Continuous Professional Development opportunities, career progression scheme including the opportunity to train as a BIA or AMHP.
Would you like to know more?
For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Julie Kriss on Julie.Kriss@oxfordshire.gov.uk or 07500784427.
About us
Do you want to help us radically change the way we deliver social care?
Join Oxfordshire County Council on an exciting journey towards Delivering the Future Together, our ambitious transformation programme which is enabling us to be an employer, partner, and place shaper of choice. We’re seeking the right people who can help us get there while embracing our value of ‘daring to do it differently’, as we continue to strive to do better.
In Adult Services, this means we're daring to do adult social care differently by supporting Oxfordshire’s residents to stay fit, healthy and independent in their communities for as long as possible through a strength’s-based approach. Working with local NHS services, care providers and community and voluntary groups, we make the most of what each of our strengths are, pulling in the same direction, and united by one shared vision.
This means we keep the people we support at the heart of all that we do. And that works. By listening to people and building on the positives in their lives, we can work collaboratively to help them live the lives they want with the right support around them.
It is something we call the Oxfordshire Way and we can’t do it alone – our proactive, positive approach to social care gives everyone the opportunity to make a bigger difference. If we’re doing a good job, we don’t stand still – we’re ambitious and we’re always striving to do better; it’s in our DNA.
About the role
Our hospital discharge services are undergoing an exciting transformation to support the residents of Oxfordshire in having their needs assessed and met in their own homes where possible. Home First D2A, as a new service encourages creative thinking, ideas and innovations to support the development of the service from all our employees.
The post holder will be required to work flexibly and collaboratively across Adult Social Care and partner agencies to support and promote strong communities. Making a real difference to the people and communities we serve, now, and for the future, whilst ensuring that we are delivering value for money. Support is delivered through a strength-based approach to create opportunities, build resilience and long-term support networks so that people live their lives as successfully, independently, and as safely as possible. The post holder will work within the competency framework achieving completion and passing of progression to Grade 11, within the timescales set out in the criteria.
Rewards and benefits
*Up to 33 day’s holiday p.a. plus bank holidays - Option to ‘buy’ additional days.
*Membership of the Local Government contributory pension scheme, employer’s contribution of up to 19.9%.
*Relocation package up to a maximum of £8,000 to cover reimbursement of expenses for newly appointed employees (conditions apply in line with Council Policy).
*Regular weekly and monthly formal and informal support and supervision.
*Local and national discounts for shopping and travel
*Extensive Continuous Professional Development opportunities, career progression scheme including the opportunity to train as a BIA or AMHP.
Would you like to know more?
For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Julie Kriss on Julie.Kriss@oxfordshire.gov.uk or 07500784427.
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