Social Worker or Advanced Social Worker - Yate

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 collaborating 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.

• It will be your responsibility to 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.
• You will 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.
• In all aspects of your practice, you will promote dignity, choice and wellbeing, using sound professional judgement to balance safety, independence and positive outcomes.
• A key aspect of the role will be working collaboratively with a wide range of colleagues across different functions and partner organisations.
• You will maintain accurate, timely and confidential records in line with professional and council standards.

Advanced Social Worker Additional Responsibilities:

• Drawing on research and evidence-based practice, you will lead on more complex and high-risk cases, applying advanced professional judgement and taking responsibility for key decisions.
• Acting as a role model, you will support and develop best practice across the team through advice, mentoring and shared learning.
• You will contribute to workforce development, including supporting and supervising students on placement.
• In line with advanced practitioner expectations, you will maintain up-to-date core training and actively engage in continuing professional development.

• It is essential that you hold a recognised professional qualification in social work as well as registration with Social Work England.
• You will bring significant experience in adult social care, with a strong understanding of the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act, and safeguarding procedures.
• We require you to have experience with Continued Health Care (CHC), including completing CHC checklists.

Advanced Social Worker Additional Requirements:

• We are looking for someone who can bring significant post-qualification experience, including working with individuals with complex needs.
• You must evidence advanced level practice, demonstrating high-quality professional reasoning, sound judgement and leadership in complex situations.
• You will be expected to take a lead role in supporting practice development, contributing to and promoting high standards across the team.

• To be considered for the Advanced Social Worker role, you must provide clear and detailed evidence within your application. The salary is offered within the following bands, dependent on experience:

• Social Worker: 36,363 - 39,152
• Advanced Social Worker: 40,777 - 44,075

• You will be expected to travel throughout the authority and surrounding area so you must have a full, valid driving licence with regular access to a vehicle or have an alternative means of travel.
• Business insurance will need to be added to your insurance policy.
• You can claim back mileage expenses.
• Please note that due to the nature of this role, it is a requirement of employment that an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check is obtained.
• This role is hybrid, with a mixture of working at our office in Badminton Road, working from home and working within the community.

Interviews will be held on 30th July 2026.

• As part of our benefits package, you will receive generous annual leave (pro rata), employee wellbeing support and you will have access to a range of staff discounts ,…