Social Worker Adult Safeguarding and Duty
* Directorate BHCC: Housing, Care and Wellbeing
* Contract: Permanent
* Closing Date: Apply by 23 February 2025
Location
Bartholomew House
Job Summary
Job reference
* Positions available: 1
Working hours:
* 37 hours
Job category:
* Social Work - Adults
Organisation:
* Brighton & Hove City Council
Job Introduction
We are currently looking to recruit a Social Worker within our Adult Safeguarding and Duty Service (ASDS) – a short-term service that provides an urgent response city-wide to adults with care and support needs.
Brighton and Hove is both a challenging and rewarding place to work, and we are looking for social workers who want to work creatively with us to ensure that individuals can live independent and fulfilled lives. We are seeking an experienced social worker; ideally experienced in Adults Social Work; however, if your experience is in Children Social Work, full training will be provided.
Our Adult Safeguarding and Duty Service is a busy, supportive, and friendly team that provides a responsive city-wide single contact point for Adult Assessment Social Care, dealing with urgent issues and crisis intervention; this includes triaging all incoming safeguarding concerns for Adult Assessment Services and mitigating immediate risks for adults at risk of harm or abuse.
The successful candidate will have a broad understanding of care planning, safeguarding, and how to co-ordinate proportionate and timely assessments to meet identified outcomes for adults at the first point of contact in a fast-paced environment, along with comprehensive knowledge of relevant legislation, including The Care Act 2014 and Mental Capacity Act 2005.
About the Role
Our Adult Safeguarding and Duty Service is a busy, supportive team. We work together to respond to our clients, some of whom may need urgent support, including protection from harm and abuse.
You will receive daily accessible support from your supervisors in this dynamic environment, allowing you to use your skills to assess risk and plan with the person and other professionals how to help.
Using your knowledge and experience of safeguarding duties, working with us will enable you to make a clear positive difference to some of our most vulnerable clients.
Application Process
Please read our Apply for a job at the council pages carefully. They provide guidance on completing your application, as well as information on what will happen after you’ve submitted your application and at the interview.
As part of your application, you will need to upload your Application Form and answers to some shortlisting questions. Your answers to the shortlisting questions are the most important part of your application, as they will be used in the shortlisting process to assess whether you meet the essential requirements for the role set out in the person specification and to decide whether you should be offered an interview. Before you start your application, please read our guidance here (Application Form guidance (brighton-hove.gov.uk) and (Shortlisting guidance (brighton-hove.gov.uk) as this gives important advice that will increase your chance of success in the shortlisting process.
Additional Information
Your starting salary will be pro-rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.
We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing while providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work-life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining. Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team, and travel to and from your contractual location would be at your own expense.
For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us.
Company Information
Please note that this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and is subject to a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Check.
Encouraging a Diverse Workforce
Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture, and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, but it also makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work, and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve, so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background, as well as those who identify as disabled, male, or trans.
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