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Social Care Officer

Job Summary
Contract Type:
Permanent
Working Pattern:
Full time
Advert Start Date:
20/06/2024
Advert End Date:
03/07/2024 12:00
Salary:
£32,076.00
Hours per week:
37
Job Category:
Social Work - Adult Service
Vacancy ID:
260912
Employment Location:
Seafield House
Number of posts:
1
Closing date:
3 Jul
Further Information
Do you want a better work-life balance? Are you looking for a new challenge, but still feel passionate about the job you are trained to do, and making a difference to the lives of adults and carers?
Interested? …

We are seeking a Social Care Officer (SCO) with strong ethics and values to support adults and carers in our communities to live the life they choose to, regardless of their age or stage of life. We currently have an SCO role available within our Greater Eston Locality Team. This is a team that supports adults, considering their individual care and support needs and what they want to achieve, to help them live as independently as possible. If you want to work in one of our supportive teams, then we would love to hear from you.
 
Our hybrid working offer supports our social workers and social care officers to manage the pressures of life alongside a rewarding career. We’ve changed our flexi-time policy too, meaning even greater flexibility in working hours, so that you are supported take time for those important things in life when you need to.

Our Vision
We will help you live safe and well, in the place you call home, with the people and things you love, connected to your community, doing the things that matter to you.
Our commitment to adults and unpaid carers:
• Listen - I am listened to and shape my own support
• Advise - I am given information and advice when I need it
• Enable - I am enabled to regain my wellbeing and independence
• Support - I receive quality care that is value for money

Our ambition is that every adult lives a good quality life, as they would choose to, and as independently as possible. It is our values and passion that motivates us, and if you are a driven professional who shares these values then we want to hear from you!

Our workforce is our greatest asset, and to show we mean this we offer many benefits including free parking, generous holiday entitlement, and flexible hybrid working that meets your needs, as well as those of the people we serve.

In return for what you can offer to the people of Redcar and Cleveland and the Council, we will welcome you with a genuine sense of teamwork, informal support and personal development. You will find that we work hard together to get the job done, investing courageously, and ensuring talented individuals have the ability to progress and make an impact both internally and externally.

Here are just some reasons why you should choose Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council…
Some quotes from our current workforce on why they choose to stay at Redcar & Cleveland:
• Staff value the security of employment with the Council
• ASYEs have had very positive experiences of the programme with good outcomes
• Staff are aware of progression frameworks and other routes to career development; such as social worker apprenticeship programme, which enables you to gain a qualification in social work whilst working within the field.
• A sense of pride to work for the Local Authority and to work with good people across all directorates
• Acknowledgement of the value and benefits of hybrid working
• Staff feel well rewarded for a job well done by their managers
• Staff enjoy the variety of their job roles and love working with people

Why Choose Redcar & Cleveland Adult Social Care?
Here’s how some of our new Social Workers are settling in:
“I was kept really well informed as to each stage of the recruitment process. Since starting 4 weeks ago everyone I have met has been helpful and informative, making me feel very welcome.” Which team was this from?
“As a newly qualified social worker fresh out of university, who has with very little experience with working with Locality team, I have found joining the Guisborough and East Cleveland team very easy to process as a new employee, regardless of experience. People within the team have been approachable to offer help and support when I have asked whether support is given face to face or over Microsoft Teams.
I have been offered plenty of shadowing opportunities, to shadow more experienced social workers while they are carrying out assessments, as well as been supported out on visits while I have been given my own cases and carrying out my own assessments.
I have been supported by my Team manager to ease into the role of a locality social worker by being tasked with completing reviews and booking time in to shadow other colleagues as well as book in any Training course that are available”.
To find out more about this exciting, challenging role in a supportive team please contact Amy Henderson, Team Manager on 01642 771500  or alternatively email amy.henderson@redcar-cleveland.gov.uk.

For detailed information on this role, please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification.

For new entrants to the council, you would be required to serve a probationary period of 6 months.  The policy applies to all employees new to Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council including those joining from other local authorities and public service organisations.

Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council are dedicated to addressing the global climate emergency and have committed to being a net zero carbon borough by 2030.
 
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