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Experienced Social Worker - Shepway Community Team, Cheriton
Client: Kent County Council
Location: Cheriton, United Kingdom
Job Category: Other
EU work permit required: Yes
Job Reference: 0eef230fb103
Job Views: 96
Posted: 22.01.2025
Expiry Date: 08.03.2025
Job Description:
Role Responsibility
We are recruiting experienced Social Workers with a range of different skills and experience. A permanent, full-time opportunity is available within the Shepway Community Team in Kent, operating in a hybrid model of office-based working and working from home to meet the needs of the service.
£3000 Golden Hello payment to all new joiners (subject to criteria) and service-related payments following continuous service.
About Us
This is an exciting opportunity to join our community teams across Kent as we enhance our locality working practice and put the person and good practice at the heart of what we do. We work with adults with a range of care and support needs, placing individuals at the centre of their support.
You will undertake work of varying levels of complexity including Care Act Assessments, Mental Capacity Act (MCA) Assessments, Court of Protection applications, and s42 safeguarding enquiries. Our social care interventions are structured around the three pillars of excellent practice, exceptional innovation, and meaningful measures, focusing on building relationships with individuals, their families, and carers.
About You
We welcome applications from experienced Social Workers who can demonstrate post-qualification experience in Social Services, health-related agencies, or related private or voluntary organisations. You will hold a registration with Social Work England and be competent to work at the Experienced Practitioner level of the Social Care Capabilities Framework for Registered Workers.
You will have experience managing and reducing risk and completing safeguarding enquiries, as well as experience in supervising other staff members. We seek future employees with a positive, forward-thinking attitude, using strengths-based practice that is built around individuals' desired outcomes and goals.
This role is subject to holding a Full UK Driving Licence. The Council is committed to making reasonable adjustments, so while this job requires the jobholder to drive, your application will still be considered if you are unable to drive due to a disability.
Our Support Offer
In return, we offer an attractive benefits package and a commitment to ensuring that you achieve a healthy work-life balance with opportunities for flexible working arrangements that meet business needs. We offer generous market premium payments (subject to eligibility), a generous annual leave allowance, and access to the local government pension scheme.
You will have excellent opportunities for professional development with access to our social care academy, progression routes, and our newly launched practice framework. We will support you in consolidating your skills and knowledge, assisting you in developing areas of specialist practice such as Approved Mental Health Professional Training, Best Interest Assessor Training, and Practice Educator training.
You will receive regular professional supervision and have the opportunity to critically reflect on your practice. We are increasingly accessible to the public outside of traditional office hours as we move towards an 8 am to 8 pm, 7 days a week service to ensure service needs are met.
This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure application to the Disclosure and Barring Service and registration as a qualified Social Worker with Social Work England. This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements.
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