Social Workers

Do you enjoy making a difference to your local community? Are you a curious practitioner who wants to make a difference to the lives of the individuals who we support? Do you enjoy building lasting relationships?

If the answer is yes, then we have an opportunity for you to join our Living in Care Home Review Team.

We are looking for a Social Worker to join on a full time, permanent basis.

We are a Countywide Team responsible for residential and nursing care customer reviews in and out of the county and completing social care assessments for customers entering adult social care services, giving you the ability to develop working relationships with customers, their families, our providers and our health and social care partner organisations.

We've changed a lot but one thing's for sure, we still love Social Workers. Join us and be part of an authority that has accepted the challenge to constantly improve., You'll need to be inquisitive and willing to spend time finding out what it's like from your customers point of view to live in the setting that they do and build knowledge to improve the quality of living for your customers. You'll need to have excellent observation skills to spot strengths and notice what's lacking and let the facts drive your ability to give constructive feedback and provide evidence based, proportionate recording. Your curiosity should also mean that you enjoy keeping up to date with current good practice, doing relevant research and building your own knowledge.

This is not your typical team - there will be an opportunity to broaden your own skills and training by working alongside nurses and learning about medical practices and you will support providers and share your knowledge and experience. Completing Social Care Assessment, Mental Capacity Act Assessments, Continuing Health Care checklists and attending Decision Support Tool meetings, completing Safeguarding Enquires, completing Court Work and engaging with Advocacy Services will be part of the role but you do not need to be an expert, full training and support will be provided.

There will be an occasional need to support working out-side of core working hours (early morning / late evening) and support over weekends. This is only occasional due to potential provider failure or emergency situations.

Experience or a willingness to work with a variety of partner organisations is vital to working in this team and you'll need to enjoy networking and influencing others to see things differently. You will be able to work autonomously and have the flexibility to manage your own workload in a hybrid way that allows you to work from home, an office base and the residential settings in your patch team area.

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don't meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don't be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Some examples of adjustments could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.

https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits:

• Flexible and creative working arrangements


• Flexible Bank Holidays


• A comprehensive wellbeing package


• Our Cambs Rewards employee discounts


• A comprehensive pension scheme


• IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network


• Camweb our staff intranet helping to keep you informed


• An employee recognition scheme


For our Social Workers, we offer more specific benefits like:

• Generous annual leave provision (28 days, plus bank holidays)


• A supportive management team that will champion your learning and development


• Employee Assistance Programme - access to free support 24 hours a day


• Payment for business mileage expenses (45p per mile)


• A relocation package of up to £8000 for eligible candidates


• Plus, 6 days of protected time each year to enable our Social Workers to maintain their Continuous Professional Development.