Social Worker – Adult Social Care

Do you thrive on empowering individuals to achieve greater independence and reach their personal living goals? Are you seeking a flexible role that will require you to travel across Devonand collaborate with a passionate team? If so, this opportunity could be the perfect fit for you!

Join our professional
Central Supported Living Review Team
, a group of Social Workers, Social Care Assessors and Occupational Therapist working countywide across Devon. Our focus is on conducting in depth, high quality reviews for adults with learning disabilities who are predominantly in supported living arrangements throughout the county.

Due to the needs of our service we need to be looking at full-time hours

We are looking for a positive, motivated Social Worker who can confidently carry out reviews in line with the Care Act 2014, fulfilling all legal responsibilities including Mental Capacity Assessments and safeguarding awareness. Your role will involve reviewing individuals living in a variety of placements including supported living settings and will require you to build effective professional relationships with people, their families/Advocates/Representatives, supported living and care providers as well as evidencing professional curiosity.

You will assess placement suitability using a strengths-based aspirational approach that supports Devon County Councils vision as described in the Living Well In Devon Strategy, supporting values that underpin transformational change in the lives of Devon residents. You will be liaising with multiple teams across Devon County Council, including The Reaching for Independence Team, Community Health and Social Care Teams, other Devon wide teams such as Autism and ADHD Team, Safeguarding, Commissioning, Contracts, Direct Payments Team and health colleagues including Devon Partnership Trust Learning Disability Services and Continuing Health Care.

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We have implemented the first phase of a new Social Worker Career Pathway within our Adults Services, with our vacancies available at the Social Worker (Grade

F) or Experienced Social Worker (Grade G) levels. Our Social Worker and Experienced Social Worker roles align with the national Professional Capability Framework (PCF) for Social Workers, which provides a robust structure for all local authorities to use as a way of standardising professional capabilities and provides a clear career pathway.

This is a fantastic opportunity to provide you with an achievable, clear pathway for your career; to enable you as a practitioner to reflect and identify your own practice and development on the PCF pathway.

If successful in being shortlisted for interview, your experience, skills and knowledge, will be assessed against the PCF domains and if found appointable, this will determine your appointment to either the Social Worker (Grade

F) or Experienced Social Worker level (Grade G).

With on-going learning and support from your line manager, those appointed as a Social Worker will be able to evidence incremental learning and submit an application in due course for progression to the Experienced Social Worker (Grade G) via a portfolio of supporting evidence against the PCF framework.

• We are committed to your
  continuous professional development
  , doing all we can to help you to get the most from your career. You will receive excellent support and supervision, with regular opportunities to discuss and reflect on your practice, both with your line manager and peers.
• We offer
  26 days annual leave
  , plus Bank Holidays, rising incrementally to 31 days after 5 years’ service.
• Flexible working opportunities
  are available, these include part-time hours, flexitime, compressed working hours and homeworking (this is subject to the needs of the role – please discuss at further at interview)
• Offer an opportunity to enter a
  generous Local Government Pension Scheme
  .
• As a place to live and work, Devon is hard to beat with top-performing schools, universities, vibrant cities, pretty villages and some of…