Social Worker Are you a compassionate and driven Social Worker ready to make a real impact in people’s lives? Do you thrive in a dynamic environment where every day brings new challenges and opportunities to create change? If so, we want you to join in our team We are currently looking for experienced social workers to our City Welling Team and are inviting applications from individuals with 1 years post qualifying experience. About the team: You will join an energetic and supportive team striving to support people in Southampton live active, safe and independent lives. The City Wellbeing Team supports adults living in the community with either a physical disability or a diagnosis of dementia and delivers statutory services to those individuals, families and carers who are already in receipt of support. This can be delivered either in their own home or in a residential or nursing placement. The social work roles and responsivities include undertaking reviews under the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005 assessments, contributions to multi-agency planning, provide interventions to individuals and their families or carers. Negotiating and coordinating resources and conducting s.42 safeguarding enquires. About Southampton City Council In Southampton, we face the challenges familiar to local authorities across the country. We have robust plans in place to meet those challenges that we’ve named ‘Ambitious Futures’ and are confident, self-aware and focused. We know what we need to do, how we’re going to do it, and the evidence shows we’re making really good progress in improving how we work and the difference we make to people’s lives. We’ll have Newton Europe working with us for the next two years to support us deliver our plans on track. We share the SocialCareFuture Vision, to enable us all ‘to live in place we call home, with the people and things we love, in communities where we look out for each other, doing the things that matter to us. We have recently changed the way we work to strengthen our approach and ensure that we work with our partners to keep residents healthy, independent, connected and contributing to society. We want to ensure that our community and people who access our services feel safe, supported and connected enabling each person to live independently with opportunities to use technology enabled care and self-serve wherever possible. This truly is an opportunity to bring your innovation, creativity and challenge to making positive changes that result in better quality of life for people. We want agile leadership at all levels to embed a positive learning culture, we really are proud to fail Whether this is your first step into social care, or you are an experienced Social Worker or Social Work Manager we have several opportunities across the teams. What we offer: Southampton City Council promotes flexible and agile working, but as we embark on our shared journey of change and implementation of new ways of working, you are expected to commit to office-based working at least 3 days a week. Here at SCC we have a range of different perks and benefits, a few examples can be found below. A generous local government pension scheme. Flexible working (role dependant). Up to 13 days of Flexi Leave. Hybrid working arrangements (role dependant). Online Benefits – salary sacrifice schemes, benefits and discounts. Great local transport links. Employee assistance programme with access to our health wellbeing and support. For further information on our benefits package please visit: Employee benefits (southampton.gov.uk) Contact details for informal discussion: For further information and details regarding the role please contact Claire Drake email: claire.drakesouthampton.gov.uk Recruitment contact details: Email: recruitmentsouthampton.gov.uk Tel: 023 8083 4033 For more information about SCC please visit Southampton City Council Follow us on social media for regular updates on our featured jobs and latest news. Facebook YouTube