Adults Senior Social Worker - Living in Care Home Review Team

at  Cambridgeshire County Council

About the role
Do you love making a positive impact in your local community? Are you a curious practitioner eager to enhance the lives of those we support? Do you thrive on building lasting relationships?
If so, we invite you to join our Living in Care Home Review Team. We are looking for a dedicated Senior Social Worker to join us full-time on a permanent basis.
Our Countywide Team handles residential and nursing care customer social care assessments and reviews both in and out of the county. This role allows you to develop working relationships with customers, their families, our providers, and our health and social care partner organizations.
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.
We value and respect Social Workers and are looking for an exceptional Senior Social Worker to join us on our journey. If you would like an informal chat about this role please contact Sara Culbert, Living in Care Home Review Team Manager, on 07771975073.
Alternatively, get in touch with us today by calling Beth on 01223 699263, email us on welovesocialworkers@cambridgeshire.gov.uk or visit our website for more information.
Interviews will be held face-to-face and are planned for the 13th of December 2024.
Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
What will you be doing?
The role will require you to lead on practice and performance development through the provision of high-quality supervision and support of staff in line with The Care Act principles. You’ll take a lead on highly complex cases, working creatively in partnership with others to manage risk. You’ll also provide leadership, through managing essential functions of the team including complex safeguarding situations. You’ll be responsible for the Quality Assurance of practitioners case work and ensuring practice standards are being met.
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 isn’t 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’ll 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 don’t 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.
About you
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’ll 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.
Most of all, you put the individual at the heart of everything and you ensure their choices are being respected and supported.

TO APPLY, YOU MUST:

• Be a qualified Social Worker with a Social Work England registration.
• Have the ability to work from a variety of locations and travel countywide independently.
  For a full list of the requirements of the role, please check out the Job Description and Person Specification
  About us
  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
  Our benefits

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…

• A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
• 6 days of protected time each year to support in maintaining your Continuous Professional Development
• A relocation package of up to £8,000 (eligibility applies)
• A pay progression scheme to enable you to accelerate through the pay grade as you gain experience and skills
• Scalable retention payments of up to £7,650 over a 3 year period, starting after your first full year of employment, in specific teams
• A Refer a Friend Scheme where if you refer another Social Worker to us who is subsequently employed by us as a result of that introduction, we’ll pay you an introduction fee of £350
• Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth

For more information and to see our other benefits, take a look at the benefits brochure attached to this advert

Please refer the Job description for details