ASYE SOCIAL WORKER

Date: 27 May 2025
Job Location:Gloucester

This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.

• Job Title: ASYE Social Worker
• Job Location: Glos Royal Hosp,10th Floor,The Tower
• Salary: £36,124 - £37,035 per annum + relocation allowance + relocation allowance up to £8000 *T&Cs apply
• Hours per Week: 37.00
• Contract Type: Permanent
• Closing Date: 11/06/2025
• Job Requisition Number: 9084
• This post is not open to job share

ARE YOU AN ENTHUSIASTIC NEWLY QUALIFIED SOCIAL WORKER (NQSW) PASSIONATE ABOUT WORKING WITH PEOPLE AND COMMITTED IN YOUR OWN LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT? THEN WE WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU!

If you’re a newly qualified Social Worker already living/studying in the UK on a student/Graduate VISA, looking to undertake your assessed and supported year in employment (ASYE) and looking to move within the UK to Gloucestershire, we are now offering VISA sponsorships!

ABOUT US:

Gloucestershire County Council Adult Social Care uses the Three Conversation approach, a model that re-emphasises focus on people, their strengths and the networks and community around them.
Our benefits:

Our Social Workers do all they can to make the difference to local communities in Gloucestershire. Here are some of the benefits we offer in return for your hard work:

• Relocation allowance of up to £8,000 subject to eligible criteria
• Strong emphasis on a supportive working environment and developing our employees with 95% having participated in their annual appraisal and regular health and wellbeing events.
• Safe, supportive, and positive working environment with regular, reflective supervision
• Transfer options after one year in post, allowing for continuous development of skills and knowledge in different Adult Social Care settings.
• Accredited post-qualified training opportunities, enabling you to develop your skills
• Personal licences to Adults CCINFORM
• Clear career progression pathways to support you in progressing professionally and personally – visit ‘Our Career Pathways’ page on gloucestershire.gov.uk/ascrecruitment/ or download the attachment below
• 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years employment, plus Bank Holidays
• Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone.
• GCC’s Cycle to Work Salary Sacrifice Scheme
• Gloucestershire Salary Sacrifice Green Car Scheme (T&C’s apply)
• Links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) network and the Young Employees Network.
• Staff discount scheme that offers access to great savings including discounts with major supermarket chains and high street retailers

ABOUT YOU:

We are looking for passionate Newly Qualified Social Workers who are able to identify themselves against the nine domains of the professional capabilities framework. You must be enthusiastic about learning and developing your practice as a professional, modelling quality and creating space for reflection. We will offer you an environment catered to do this, including challenging you with professional curiosity and supporting you to build effective working relationships within a professional network.
To be eligible for the ASYE programme, you need to have been qualified within the last two years and be registered with Social Work England (SWE). If you haven’t received your qualification or SWE registration yet, then you should only apply if you are expecting to receive/apply for these this academic year, meaning you are able to begin your ASYE programme in mid-October 2025.
You must also hold a clean and valid driving licence (exceptions under the Equality Act may apply).

Hospital Discharge and Assessment Team in Gloucestershire County Council Adult Social Care is pleased to extend invitations to Newly Qualified Social Workers to undertake a mandatory supportive and dynamic Assessed and Supported Year of Employment (ASYE). You can find out more about our Learning Disabilities Team on our “Meet our Teams” webpage.
The ASYE is an induction year; supporting NQSW’s to establish themselves on the first step of their professional career. All NQSW’s who are enrolled on our ASYE will be offered a robust, structured ASYE programme (which has been developed through feedback from ASYE Social Workers), peer supervision, practice development workshops and access to a dedicated ASYE coordinator from the Practice Development Team to support you throughout your programme.
The team has supportive and engaged management structures which include Integrated Social Care Manager, Deputy Social Care Managers, Social Work Leads and Social Care Leads. Other staff members include qualified Senior Social Workers, Social Workers, Adult Social Care Practitioners, and dedicated Administration teams.