Job Summary
Working Pattern:
Full time
Advert Start Date:
13/02/2025
Advert End Date:
12/03/2025 12:00
Salary:
£33,366.00 - £41,511.00
Job Category:
Social Work - Adult Service
Employment Location:
Redcar & Cleveland House, Kirkleatham Street, Redcar TS10 1RT
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 experienced and passionate social workers who are committed to making a real difference in the lives of adults in Redcar and Cleveland. This is an exciting opportunity to join our dedicated safeguarding team, where you will play a vital role in delivering high-quality safeguarding interventions and promoting the rights, dignity and well-being of the adults and carers we support.
As an experience Social Worker you will:
Lead section 42 enquiries, ensuring robust and person-centred safeguarding responses.
Work closely with adults at risk, their families, carers and multi-agency partners to achieve strength-based outcomes.
Follow policy and procedures, apply key legislation, including the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005, and Human Rights Act 1998, to ensure lawful and ethical safeguarding practice.
Advocate for individuals, ensuring their voices are heard and their choices respected.
Contribute to ongoing service development and best practice in safeguarding
Applicants will require:
A formal qualification in Social Work and registration with Social Work England.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build strong trusting relationships.
A commitment to Making Safeguarding Personal; ensuring adults remain at the heart of the safeguarding process.
A strong understanding of safeguarding procedures and multi-agency working.
The ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment while maintaining a person-centred focus.
Benefits:
Flexible working arrangements for a good work-life balance (hybrid working model).
We provide regular professional supervision.
A supportive and collaborative team environment.
An opportunity to be part of a forward-thinking team, making a meaningful impact on adult safeguarding.
Ongoing training and professional development opportunities.
Generous annual leave entitlement.
Pension scheme.
If you are highly motivated and committed to improving the lives of adults and their carers in Redcar and Cleveland, then we would like to hear from you.
Our hybrid working offer supports our staff 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, 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.”
“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 Alyson James, Team Manager 01642 444472 or Bianca Porter, service manager 01287 612642 or alternatively email alyson.james@redcar-cleveland.gov.uk or bianca.porter2@redcar-cleveland.gov.uk
For detailed information on this role, please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification.
New entrants to the council 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.
The posts are subject to a continuous recruitment process, therefore if the post are filled, the closing date may change.
Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council are dedicated to addressing the global climate emergency and have committed to being a net zero carbon borough by 2030.