Social Worker - Mental Health Review Team
| Posting date: | 14 August 2025 |
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| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 13 September 2025 |
| Location: | Leicester, LE3 8RA |
| Company: | Leicestershire County Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 5920 |
Summary
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: Various
Worker Category: Hybrid Worker, up to 2 days a week in the office
Salary: £32,070 - £34,359 per annum for Newly Qualified Social Workers, £35,451 - £39,165 per annum for Level 2 Social Workers, £39,939 to £42,699 plus £3,300 market premia payment for Level 3 Social Workers (pro rata for part time)
Working Hours: 18.5 Hours Per Week
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: Thursday 28th August 2025
Here at Leicestershire County Council, we are seeking a passionate community support worker to join our Adult Mental Health Review Team.
About the Role
Leicestershire County Council is seeking a passionate community support worker to join our Adult Mental Health Review Team. This is a vital role in delivering high-quality, person-centred reviews in line with the Care Act 2014 and the Mental Health Act 1983 ensuring that adults with mental health needs receive the support they need to live independently, safely, and with dignity.
You will work collaboratively with the person, carers, and professionals across health and social care to review care and support plans, promote recovery, and uphold the principles of wellbeing and independence to ensure the person’s outcomes are met.
For further information on what it’s like to work for us, please visit:
Social Worker recruitment
Working in Adult Social Care
About You
To apply for this post, you must:
- Be a qualified Social Worker and registered with Social Work England.
- Have knowledge of social work methodologies, social care policies such as person-centred approaches and asset based social work, and relevant legislation including The Care Act, Mental Health Act, and Mental Capacity Act.
- Have experience of effective assessment and risk management delivery, and multi-agency/multidisciplinary working and/or hospital discharge processes.
- Have experience of partnership working with adults to identify and meet need with creative and pragmatic solutions.
- Be a confident communicator who is skilled in diplomacy, persuasion, assertive and conflict management and able to build effective working relationships.
- Be able to work proactively individually but also as a team member.
- Have good prioritisation and time management skills and have a valid UK driving licence or access to a vehicle
We also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the interview process.
A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual’s personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Chelbie Shepherd, Resourcing Co-ordinator
Telephone: 0116 305 5973
Email: chelbie.shepherd@leics.gov.uk
How to Apply
Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity, and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services, we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the ‘About You’ section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.
To apply for this job, please click ‘Apply Now’. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the ‘About You’ section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post, please contact our Employee Service Centre: https://emss.org.uk/support.
By applying for this post, you agree to our Terms and Conditions.
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