Swindon Borough Council are on an exciting journey to transform service delivery. We want our town to be the best it can be. Our ambitious vision in the new Swindon Plan is supported by realistic transformation programmes, with the people of Swindon at their heart. Because that’s who we’re doing it for – the communities and businesses that make our town great. As part of the Council, you’ll support a friendly local authority making decisions with real impact. It’s all for better public services. Better processes. And a better quality of life, for everyone. Join us, and Swindon will be better with you.
We are bold and ambitious in our plans, with a clear vision and direction for the future. Our status as one of the UK’s fastest growing towns is driving transformational change across our organisation, most significantly within our highly valued Adults’ Services teams.
We’ve already taken huge strides forward with our journey for an integrated approach to children’s health, education support and social care and now we’re ready to move on to the next stage in our development. As we move forward, it is vital that everything we do and every service we provide is delivered in a robust way and is in line with national standards and protocols.

We have an exciting opportunity to join the transitions team as an experienced social worker. In this role, you will be responsible for managing a caseload, supervising assistant care managers and link workers as well as sharing the transitions duty manager role.
Within the Transitions team, we work closely with young people between the ages of 14 years and 25 years who may have a learning disability, neuro diverse diagnosis, physical disability or mental health needs and support them to prepare to enter in to adulthood and develop their independence as much as possible. This enables you, as a professional to get to know a young person and their family over a longer period of time. You will be responsible for completing the Care Act Assessment in preparation for the young person turning 18 years old.
During this time, you will be working in a multi-disciplinary framework with education, health, children services and supported employment services amongst others before the young person transitions to Adult Social Care. Following this, you will follow the care management process to review the support plan annually as well as continual planning for the future with the young person and their family.
You will be responsible for managing a caseload that may include capacity assessments, completing DOLS applications and attending MDT meetings. You will also work with safeguarding alerts, acting as enquiry manager for those within the team.
You must be fluent in the English language (as a requirement of Part 7 of the Immigration Act “for the effective performance of a customer-facing role”).
You must hold a formal social work degree and be Social Work England registered to apply for this post.