About the role:
We have a full time Senior Social Worker position available in our Cotswolds Locality Team.
The Senior Social Worker role could be the perfect next step of your career; with this role offering you more challenge and complexity, without the added management responsibility. We look to our Senior Social Workers to provide expert social work practice in complex situations, assessing and managing higher levels of risk. You will work closely with a range of professionals and more senior managers to ensure a balance of support and independence is achieved, through offering expert evidence based opinion.
The post is based in Cirencester, we have free onsite car parking and we offer flexible working with a mix of office and home working.
About you:
As a Senior Social Worker, we understand the work you do on a daily basis and provide the support you need to make a difference to the people of Gloucestershire.
To join us, you must:
Have a social work qualification and be SWE* registered
Have completed your ASYE* programme and have at least 2 years post completion service
Enjoy working in a fast-paced environment
Have the passion to promote people’s strengths and the ability to make a difference in a safe working approach to social work practice
Have up to date knowledge of legislation and demonstrable experience of providing credible approaches to practice.
Be able to prioritise, using a risk based approach
Our values are at the heart of everything we do and how we treat each other. They provide essential guiding principles about the way that we work and set the tone for our culture, and identify what we, as an organisation, care about. Read more about our values on our website.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join our Cotswolds team. You can be confident of becoming part of a welcoming, supportive, passionate, innovative and very experienced team. We use the Three Conversation approach, a model that re-emphasises focus on people, their strengths and the networks and community around them. The suitable candidate will be well supported within their role and will receive regular supervision. We fully support hybrid and agile working and ask teams to be in the office on days they are working together and holding their ‘huddles’ (where teams work together on exploring how to support the people we work with.)
About us:
This is a great time to join Gloucestershire County Council, as Adult Social Care is on an exciting innovation journey, which focuses our approach into being more creative, strengths-based and person-centred, to ensure that we work together to ‘Make the Difference’ to our local communities.
Gloucestershire County Council provides the following rewards package in return for your hard work:
• 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years’ service, plus bank holidays
• Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme
• Access to training and workshops so you can develop your skills
• Clear career progression pathways, to support you in progressing professionally and personally
• Staff discount scheme that offers access to great savings including discounts with major supermarket chains and high street retailers
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone.
• Links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) network and the Young Employees Network.
• Gloucestershire Salary Sacrifice Green Car Scheme (T&C's apply)