SENIOR SOCIAL WORKER

Date: 22 Jul 2025
Job Location:Gloucester

This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.

• Job Title: Senior Social Worker
• Job Location: Shire Hall, Block 5, 2nd Floor
• Salary: £40,476 - £45,718
• Hours per Week: 37.00
• Contract Type: Permanent
• Closing Date: 10/08/2025
• Job Requisition Number: 11898
• This post is not open to job share

ABOUT US:

This is a fantastic opportunity to join our Gloucester team. You can be confident of becoming part of a welcoming, passionate, innovative, and highly supportive team.
Enchanting Cotswold villages, picturesque countryside backdrops, and a never-ending selection of exciting days out, attractions and events; Gloucestershire really does have something for everyone. Gloucestershire is the perfect place to live and work with a great mix of rural and city locations. Find out more about living and working in Gloucestershire.
The suitable candidate will be well supported within their role and will receive regular supervision. We fully support hybrid and agile working and ask teams to be in the office on days they are working together and holding their ‘huddles’ (where teams work together on exploring how to support the people we work with.)

You’ll be entitled to our full benefits package, including:

• 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years’ service, plus bank holidays
• Membership of a Local Government Pension Scheme
• Discounts at a number of major supermarket chains and high street retailers
• Accredited post-qualified training opportunities, enabling you to develop your skills
• Personal licences to Adults CCINFORM
• Transfer options after one year in post, allowing for continuous development of skills and knowledge in different Adult Social Care settings.
• Access to mandatory training and additional topical bi-annual workshops.
• 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
• Gloucestershire Salary Sacrifice Green Car Scheme (T&C’s apply)
• GCC’s Cycle to Work Salary Sacrifice Scheme
• Links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) network and the Young Employees Network
• Strong emphasis on a supportive working environment and developing our employees with 94% having participated in their annual appraisal and regular health and wellbeing events.

APPLYING:

Please write your application with consideration for the criteria in the Job Profile. This should include examples of why you should be considered and the experience, skills and knowledge that you would bring to the post. You will find a link below to our Job Description.
For an informal discussion with the team manager, please contact ASCrecruitment@gloucestershire.gov.uk
The council is not currently able to offer sponsorship in this role. Candidates will need to have right to work that enables them to commit to at least 6 months employment. Right to work is not transferable from a sponsored role held with another employer.

We have a full time Senior Social Worker position available in our Gloucester Locality Team. The team has a supportive and engaged management structure including an Integrated Social Care Manager, Deputy Social Care Manager, Social Work Leads, Social Care Lead, Senior Social Worker, Social Workers, Social Care Practitioners and an administration team.
The Senior Social Worker role could be the perfect next step of your career; with this role offering you more challenge and complexity, without the added management responsibility. We look to our Senior Social Workers to provide expert social work practice in complex situations, assessing and managing higher levels of risk. You will work closely with a range of professionals and more senior managers to ensure a balance of support and independence is achieved, through offering expert evidence based opinion.
To find out more about working in the Gloucester Team, visit ‘Meet Our Teams’ by clicking here.