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• Suffolk County Council - Recruiting countywide across Suffolk
• Adult Social Worker (Grade 5): £32,909 - £36,298 per annum (pro rata for part time)
• Adult Senior Social Worker (Grade 6): £37,000 - £42,380 per annum (pro rata for part time)
• Plus retention payments for 2, 3 and 5 years service of £1,000, £1,500 and £2,000
• Full time and Part time hours available
• Permanent

Sponsorship for a Health and Care Worker visa may be available for current UK and Overseas residents.

Only an hour outside London, Suffolk is increasingly attracting talented people choosing a lifestyle that offers opportunities and variety.

Find out about our beautiful county of Suffolk and see what a wonderful place it is to live and work at welcome to Suffolk (www.visitsuffolk.com)

We are looking to recruit qualified Social Workers and Senior Social Workers, who have a strong commitment to supporting their local communities and building links and networks for the people we work with.

We are a family-friendly organisation and we want to support you to find a work-life balance, motivating you to be the best Social Care professional that you can be.

We are committed to offering you flexible working options such as:

• part time hours
• permanent and temporary posts
• flexible working and hybrid working options
• retention payments for 2, 3 and 5 years service of £1,000, £1,500 and £2,000
• 6 protected days to undertake CPD (Continuing Professional Development)
• strong and diverse training offer
• supportive and experienced teams
• opportunities for development and career progression across the council
• inclusive and creative culture.

Join a service with the Newly Qualified Adult Social Worker of the Year gold award winner and Adult Social Worker silver award winner of the Year of 2022.

If so, come and join us at Suffolk County Council where our staff are our greatest resource. With you in our team, we can achieve the authority’s priorities of enabling everyone to live long, healthy, fulfilling lives whilst safeguarding the most vulnerable people in Suffolk.

We are passionate about supporting you to progress your career in Suffolk and can offer you development opportunities such Approved Mental Health Practitioner, Best Interest Assessor and Practice Educator

You will need to:

• be a qualified, registered social worker
• have completed your Assessed and Supported Year in Employment (ASYE) for grade 6 Senior Social Worker posts
• have good knowledge, understanding and experience of working with relevant legislation in practice.

Your role

You will have the ability and experience to undertake innovative strengths-based assessments and care planning with individuals, carers, and their personal support networks.

You will also be open to change, innovative and confident with a focus on strengthening social work; be ambitious about what people can achieve and keen to explore ideas for positive outcomes.

Signs of Safety

It is an exciting time to join our Social Care Service in Suffolk; we are striving to strengthen our service so that we provide a strong, reablement focused model for the people of Suffolk.

We promote personalisation through our practice model, Supporting Lives and Connecting Communities, and have adopted the Signs of Safety model as a foundation throughout our service- working with people and their networks using a safety, solution building and trauma responsive approach.

This is your chance to become one of the select few Social Workers worldwide that are trained practising professionals in Signs of Safety; this will see you stand out from other Social Workers and enable you to develop and progress in your career.

For more information, visit:

• ACS introduction (pagetiger.com)
• What is Signs of Safety? (signsofsafety.net)

Our approach

Partnership working is strong and through joint care planning, we strive for a person-centered approach that supports people to be independent, resilient, and have choice and control.

We have strong, cohesive, and supportive management teams, who are committed to continuous professional development and have a reputation for changing services for the better.

We are recruiting across our teams in Suffolk Adult Social Care:

• North Suffolk- with bases in Lowestoft and Beccles
  South Waveney, Lowestoft, Flexible Care and Support and Hospital to Home teams
  
• West Suffolk- with bases in Bury St Edmunds, Mildenhall, Newmarket, Haverhill and Sudbury
  Haverhill, Bury Rural, Bury Town, Mildenhall, Newmarket, Sudbury, Flexible Care and Support and Hospital to Home teams
  
• Ipswich and East Suffolk- with bases in Ipswich, Woodbridge, Leiston and Felixstowe
  Ipswich West, Ipswich East, Woodbridge, Hospital Discharge to Assess, Leiston, Flexible Care and Support, Felixstowe and Optimising Care and Support teams
  
• Mental Health- with bases in Lowestoft, Ipswich and Bury St Edmunds
  North, South, East, West, Review and Specialist Support teams
  
• Learning Disabilities and Autism- with bases in Lowestoft, Ipswich and Bury St Edmunds
  North, South, East, West, Review and Specialist Support teams
  
• Independence and Wellbeing Service- with bases in Lowestoft, Bury St Edmunds and Ipswich
  
• Adult Safeguarding and Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH)- with bases in Ipswich

Please note that the Hospital Teams operate a 7-day working pattern, so a weekend working rota (approximately 1 weekend per month) would apply.

Travel requirements of the role: Frequent Travel

This organisation positively encourages the use of technology to communicate and engage, but in this role, you will need to operate across a wide and rural area, so you must either hold a full and current driving licence and have access to personal transport or meet the mobility requirements of the role through other reasonable and suitable means.

For more information

To request an informal discussion about any of these roles, please email us via [email protected] and we will give you a call at your convenience.

Apply once and have your application considered for all Adult Social Worker jobs in Suffolk (please specify in your online application if you have a preference of area, service or team).

In your application, please ensure you upload a copy of your CV when completing your online application.

• Adult Social Worker (Grade 5) Job and Person Profile (docx)
• Safeguarding Social Worker (Grade 5) Job and Person Profile (docx)
• Adult Senior Social Worker (Grade 6) Job and Person Profile (docx)

If you are considering applying for a secondment, please read the secondment policy and ensure you have sought permission to apply before completing your application.

Closing date: 11.30pm, 31 May 2023.

We will interview applicants for posts as they apply.

Promoted as JOTW (Job of the Week) on Suffolk Jobs Direct.

This authority is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. DBS checks or police vetting will be required for relevant posts.

We offer a fantastic, inclusive working environment including diverse and active staff networks, great flexible working options and many benefits, as well as the opportunity to improve the lives of Suffolk residents.

Benefits include:

• Performance-related annual pay progression, in addition to an annual cost-of-living pay increase
• The opportunity to join a large, diverse organisation, with career opportunities across our services
• A supportive culture, underpinned by our WE ASPIRE values
• Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
• Up to 28 days annual leave entitlement, plus UK bank holidays and two paid volunteering days
• An occupational sick pay scheme
• Learning and development opportunities, including a range of work-based apprenticeships
• Flexible working options, with the right to request flexible working from your first day
• A range of staff networks centred around equality groups
• Plus more

If you would like to know more about our benefits, values and equality commitments please visit our Working for Suffolk County Council pages (www.Suffolk.gov.uk/careers).