Social Worker - Advice and Wellbeing Hub

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Job reference DAC
0858 Date posted 23/07/2026 Final date to receive applications 16/08/2026 Location Reading Salary £35,412 to £44,075 Per year (£2,000 Market Supplement available for Experienced Social Worker) Contractual hours 37 Basis Full time Job category/type Adult Services, Social Services, Social Work/Care Attachments Social Worker
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Are you a Social Worker who’s passionate about making a real impact? Do you thrive in a supportive, collaborative team where your expertise can change lives from the very first conversation? If so, the Advice and Wellbeing Hub is the place for you! Join us and play a key role in helping adults and carers get the right support at the right time empowering independence, wellbeing, and brighter futures.

This is a dynamic frontline role at the heart of early intervention and prevention. You'll bring your social work knowledge to deliver short-term, meaningful interventions that truly make a difference helping people stay safe, independent, and confident in their own homes. We welcome talented people from all backgrounds. Diversity and inclusion drive our success, and as a Disability Confident Employer, Reading Borough Council is committed to supporting and championing colleagues with disabilities.

• Older adults
• People with disabilities
• Individuals affected by alcohol or substance misuse.
• Homelessness
• Hoarding
• Carers seeking advice, support, and guidance.

The Hub is busy, vibrant, and incredibly supportive—it’s the perfect place to grow, develop, and make an immediate impact in people’s lives.

As a Social Worker in the Hub, you’ll be the welcoming, knowledgeable first point of contact for adults, carers, and professionals.

• Completing strengths-based Care Act assessments
• Undertaking Mental Capacity assessments
• Coordinating best interest decisions
• Managing safeguarding enquiries where needed
• Offering clear, practical advice, information, and guidance
• Managing a short-term, varied caseload designed to boost wellbeing and independence.

You’ll work closely with colleagues, health partners, and external agencies using your professional judgement within legal and statutory frameworks to ensure interventions are safe, effective, and proportionate.

Your contribution will be pivotal in helping people access the right support at the right time.

You will need to have:

• A Social Work degree (or equivalent)
• Registration with Social Work England
• A solid understanding of the Care Act 2014

You will have access to our Learning and Development programme and be supported in your career and personal growth with opportunities to learn and develop new clinical skills, helping you to build your Continuing Professional Development portfolio, extending your skills and supporting you to grow as a social worker.

We work closely with our colleagues in Reading Borough Council, Health Professionals, Voluntary and Charity colleagues to facilitate the best possible outcomes for those people we support.

You’ll be part of a team that relies on each individual to play their part to the best of their ability. As well as the colleagues that you work closely with every day, you’ll also be part of Team Reading, playing your personal part in making Reading a successful and vibrant place.

Our vision is to ensure that Reading realises its potential as a great place to live, work and play, and that everyone shares the benefits of this success. Our values and behaviours guide how we will achieve this:

Work Together as one team - work collaboratively, with each other and with our partners, and demonstrate the Team Reading values in everything we do.
Drive Efficiency - show initiative, be adaptable to change and put forward ideas to help improve delivery and efficiency. Take responsibility for our own learning and development and for reaching our potential.
Be Ambitious - be demanding of our own performance – striving to be even better – and be prepared to engage with and challenge leaders in a…