Overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Early Resolution and Safeguarding Team for a Social Work Assistant who has a strong focus on helping people to give up smoking and promote their overall health and wellbeing.
This is a secondment/ fixed term contract opportunity for 12 months.
About us
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Early Resolution and Safeguarding Team for a Social Work Assistant who has a strong focus on helping people to give up smoking and promote their overall health and wellbeing.
About the role
This role would be different to our usual Social Work Assistant role as there will be direct training and support from Public health as well as Adult Social Care.
ERaS are a very supportive and welcoming Team. You can expect a good induction with shadowing opportunities as well as statutory learning and meeting partner across the Council and within Public Health.
As this is a new role there will be opportunities to develop the role and if it proves successful then there is a possibility that the role can be extended for up to a further 5 years.
Fixed
As a ‘fixed’ worker, you’ll spend most of your time in the same location, which will likely be a fixed office or location where your role is performed. Typically, you’ll be based in the same location as the rest of your team, because you provide a particular service from that fixed location or need access to information there.
About you
You will be carrying out Care Act assessments with an overall focus on health and wellbeing. You will be confident and persuasive and able to encourage people to make the steps needed to stop smoking.
Other information
Please see the attached job summary for further information on this role and person specification.
We offer flexible working arrangement and we usually work from the office 2 days per week but this can be up to 5 days a week.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:
- All unspent convictions and conditional cautions
- All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020 and 2023).
For further information on filtering please refer to Nacro guidance and the guidance published by the Ministry of Justice (see, in particular, the section titled ‘Exceptions Order’).
We reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so please be advised to submit your application as early as possible.
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