The Adult Social Worker teams at Peterborough City Council supports all adults including those living with physical disabilities, older adults, people with sensory impairment or a learning disability.
The Adult Team’s work within the parameters of The Care Act 2014 eligibility, so when an adult is identified as needing additional care, housing or a supported living placement, they play a vital role in ensuring they can live a fulfilling life, within those eligible needs.
As part of these teams, you would also ensure the correct funding stream is in place for those within your care, using Continuing Healthcare Checklist protocols and signposting people to areas of natural support - with guidance from the Peterborough Information Network.
The team works on a hybrid basis and you will be in the office twice a week, but not just as a mandate and for the sake of being there; you will appreciate that opportunity to get together for peer-to-peer support, to discuss ideas and speak in person with other teams.
If you have a flexible working request, this can also be considered, for example early starts/finishes, 9-day fortnights and compressed hours - all of which can be discussed with your manager.
In terms of growth and job security, the team has recently created three new senior posts. These serve as potential development opportunities should there be future team movement (when Social Workers leave the Adult team, it’s usually to go into senior or development roles).
The Team Managers are friendly, knowledgeable and bring different complementary experiences in a variety of areas. They all joined the department in more junior level roles and have worked their way up through the department through promotion, so keen for their team to do the same.
As a Social Worker you could still take on board leadership elements such as running small projects or Peterborough offer the opportunity to qualify as Best Interest Assessor and, Practice Educator.
You will find our selection process quick and relatively pain free! After shortlisting, we will aim to get you in for an interview with two Team Managers and that will feature a scenario-based exercise. Then if all goes well, we will extend offers soon after.
The team has a full-time role available and given it’s a city authority you won’t have to travel too far afield but need to have means of transport to be able to make appointments within the local area.
On the theme of travel, if you are relocating to Peterborough, we can offer a package of up to £8,000 to help you settle in the area and generous retention payments — we can give you more detail of how this works in practice, at interview stage.
In return for working with us, you will have access to an amazing range of benefits including:
• Generous annual leave entitlement starting at 25 days per year + bank holidays (FTE) + option to purchase up to an additional ten days per year (FTE)
• Comprehensive pension scheme with employer contributions of 17.5% (current)
• Immediate life cover (x3 times your annual salary) and ill-health protection (applicable to those enrolled in LGPS)
• Flexible and hybrid working opportunities
• Discounted private medical insurance
• Access to a car lease salary sacrifice and cycle to work scheme
• Funded professional or subscription fees where qualification or membership of a professional body is an essential part of the role
If you are a qualified social worker and share our enthusiasm about the work we do and the positive change it has on lives, please click apply and we promise to respond quickly once shortlisting has completed
For more information, or an informal discussion, please contact Team Manager, Imaan Ashiq at imaan.ashiq@peterborough.gov.uk