Social Worker or Advanced Social Worker

How you'll make a difference

As a Social Worker or Advanced Social Worker, your focus will be to deliver high-quality statutory reviews that improve outcomes, promote independence and enhance wellbeing for adults with care and support needs, using a strengths-based and person-centred approach.

Working collaboratively with partners, you will ensure individuals receive timely and appropriate support, enabling them to live as independently as possible. With a strong emphasis on effective and lawful practice, you will ensure care and support remains appropriate and delivers best value, while supporting confident professional judgement and defensible decision making.

• Manage a caseload of adults with care and support needs, helping them and their carers to identify goals, build on strengths and develop practical solutions.
• Complete high-quality reviews, including needs assessments, care and support planning and safeguarding enquiries, ensuring plans remain strengths-based, proportionate, outcome focused and promote independence.
• Promote dignity, choice and wellbeing, using sound professional judgement to balance safety, independence and positive outcomes.
• Work collaboratively with a wide range of colleagues across different functions and partner organisations.
• Maintain accurate, timely and confidential records in line with professional and council standards.

• Lead on more complex and high-risk cases, applying advanced professional judgement and taking responsibility for key decisions.
• Act as a role model, supporting and developing best practice across the team through advice, mentoring and shared learning.
• Contribute to workforce development, including supporting and supervising students on placement.
• Maintain up-to-date core training and actively engage in continuing professional development.

• Hold a recognised professional qualification in social work and be registered with Social Work England.
• Have significant experience in adult social care, with a strong understanding of the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act and safeguarding procedures.
• Have experience with Continued Health Care (CHC), including completing CHC checklists.

• Have significant post-qualification experience, including working with individuals with complex needs.
• Evident advanced level practice, demonstrating high-quality professional reasoning, sound judgement and leadership in complex situations.
• Take a lead role in supporting practice development, contributing to and promoting high standards across the team.

• Salary bands:
  Social Worker £36,363 - £39,152;
  Advanced Social Worker £40,777 - £44,075.
• Travel throughout the authority and surrounding area; must have a full, valid driving licence and regular access to a vehicle or an alternative means of travel.
• Business insurance will need to be added to your insurance policy.
• You can claim back mileage expenses.
• An enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check is required.
• The role is hybrid, with a mixture of working at our office in Badminton Road, working from home and working within the community.

• Generous annual leave (pro rata).
• Employee wellbeing support.
• Staff discounts on eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities.
• Support to develop a specialism aligned with your areas of expertise.