Social Worker - Assessment Team

Job description

Job responsibilities

Are you a proactive and adaptable Social Worker looking for a new challenge?

Our Assessment Teams are lively, fast paced and interesting. You will be joining a team who have a passion for ensuring that children and families in our area receive a positive and timely first experience from our service. The work is immensely rich, varies day-to-day and allows for a high level of multi-agency working often to tight timelines. The fast-paced nature of our work in the Assessment Team also means that you see positive outcomes for children and their families quickly.

The support we provide our Social Workers include weekly meetings alongside separate case discussions and personal supervisions. The Assessment Teams are also supported by Childrens Information and Advice Officers which makes administrative tasks much more manageable.

We currently have vacancies in the following locations, all of which have excellent public and private transport links:

• Wisbech
• Cambridge City (part-time available 18.5 hrs)and South Cambridgeshire
• Huntingdon(part-time available 18.5 hrs)

All staff have an allocated work base, being your main place of work, but you can access many of our corporate buildings across Cambridgeshire to work, hold and attend meetings.

This is a rolling campaign, and we will review applications daily so please don't wait for the closing date to apply, we want to speak to you now!

Apply or get in touch with us today by calling Beth on 01223 475920. Alternatively, you can email us on joinus@cambridgeshire.gov.uk or visit our website for more information.

We know that your time is precious, so our interviews can be held virtually, by Microsoft Teams, to provide the most flexible recruitment process. We may include a virtual assessment as part of this, but well give you all of the relevant information ahead of time.

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.

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(45p per mile, and for the 2022/2023 financial year an additional fuel allowance for those driving over 300 business miles each month)
• 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
• 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.

We're looking for confident and dynamic individuals who enjoy making a difference in their local community, are curious and spot things that others might not see, enjoys building relationships and likes to explore possibilities.

You must:

• Be a qualified Social Worker with a Social Work England registration
• 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 & Person Specification.

We want to hear from you about how you want to work that would help to bring your best self to Cambridgeshire. Prefer to work 37 hours over 4 days? Want to work 25 hours? Looking for a role where you can be flexible around commitments outside of work? Get in touch today and lets have a chat about the right working pattern for you!

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.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.

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.

http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers

Person Specification

General Requirements

Essential

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Desirable

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Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Cambridgeshire County Council

Address

Huntington, Fenland, Wisbech, Cambridge City, Trumpington

PE28 4YE

Employer's website

https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)