Senior Social Worker

We are looking to recruit a Senior Social Worker to work within the First Contact Adult Social Care and All Age Carers Team.

This key role will take responsibility for the working across Older People, Physical and Learning Disabilities, and all age Carers assessments, as such we are seeking experienced Advanced Practitioners with a range of knowledge and skills across this broad agenda.

If you have a desire to support the Local authority in developing our approach to supporting citizens of Staffordshire at the first point of contact, this role could be for you!

You will:

• Supervise and support the professional development of social workers and social care assessors, including co-working cases and mentoring team members.
• Organise and adapt daily duties using initiative and sound judgement, while responding to unpredictable changes and upholding SCC policies and procedures.
• Oversee quality assurance of statutory documentation and champion Strengths Based Practice across the service.
• Lead and contribute to best practice development, ensuring safeguarding responsibilities are fulfilled promptly and in line with legislative guidance.
• Motivate staff to deliver adult engagement objectives and maintain a flexible, healthy work-life balance within the team.
• Carry out statutory duties under the Care Act, including assessments, and participate in inter-agency Best Interest Assessor and AMHP rotas.

You will have:

• demonstrable management experience.
• knowledge and experience of working within Adult Social Care.
• knowledge and experience of applying the Mental Capacity Act assessments, Best Interest Assessments/DOLs.
• knowledge of mental health legislation including section 117.
• understanding of the principles of the different funding streams available to support adults.
• experience of working as part of a team, in developing the professional practice of colleagues.

We require you to be flexible to work at any other location across the service, as and when required and be available to work out of hours, evenings and weekends when required.

Interviews will be held: Week commencing 4 August at Staffordshire Place 1, Stafford.

Don’t feel you meet all the requirements? We value transferable skills, experiences, and qualifications so consider applying anyway or for an informal chat about the role please contact Nicola Williams, Nicola.Williams@staffordshire.gov.uk

Our Recruitment Process: We anonymise applications during shortlisting to ensure only relevant information is considered. Please complete your application fully, especially the supporting statement, to highlight what you’ll bring to the role.

We are no ordinary county council:

Our Values:

The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.

Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:

We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.

We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.

Our benefits:

We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.

In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire

Our recruitment process:

As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities

As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Gold Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post.

As you’ll know safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people/vulnerable adults is important to us and that’s why this position is subject to a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service. If applicable you should disclose details of unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions in your application form.