Newly Qualified Adult Social Workers Ipswich, England
Job description
- Suffolk County Council - recruiting countywide across Suffolk.
- Newly Qualified Adult Social Workers 2023 intake
- £32,909 per annum (pro rata for part time hours)
- Rising to £33,820 after successful completion of your ASYE (Assessed and Supported Year in Employment)
- Plus a £500 additional payment
- Newly Qualified Adult Social Worker of the Year gold award winner 2022 and Adult Social Worker silver award winner of the Year of 2022.
Have you recently qualified, or are you about to qualify, as a Social Worker?
If the answer is yes, we would welcome the opportunity to consider your application to join us in Suffolk for your ASYE (Assessed and Supported Year in Employment).
We are looking to recruit Newly Qualified Social Workers (NQSW), who have a strong commitment to supporting their local communities and building links and networks for the people we work with.
We are able to offer and provide you with excellent support and training to continue your professional development, and support you to become the best social worker you can be, so that you can deliver an excellent service for the people of Suffolk.
We welcome applications prior to your qualification and/or registration being received, and can support you until you receive your registration.
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 offer:
- Part-time hours available
- Permanent and temporary posts across Suffolk
- Flexible working and hybrid working options
- Retention payments for 2,3 and 5 years (£1000, £1500 and £2000)
- 6 protected days CPD
- Strong and diverse training offer
- Supportive and experienced teams
- Opportunities for development and career progression across the council
- Inclusive and creative culture.
We are passionate in supporting you with your Social Work career and progression. We are committed to offering you flexible working options like part-time working, so please read the Social Work Job Descriptions to find out the types of flexible working are available.
We are a family-friendly organisation and want to support you to find a work-life balance, motivating you to be the best Social Care professional that you can be.
When joining the organisation, you will:
- have an excellent induction to the role
- receive support from peers and mentors
- be able to access extensive training opportunities available, to support your personal and professional development
- join a cohort of NQSW's who are also completing their ASYE training allowing you to provide and receive support from other NQSWs.
Further opportunities with career development
Following successful completion of your ASYE you could progress in the following roles:
- Approved Mental Health Practitioner
- Best Interest Assessor
- Practice Educator.
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 practicing 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 about Signs of Safety, 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, Haverhill and Sudbury
Haverhill, Bury Rural, Bury Town, Mildenhall, 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.
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).
For more information
For an informal discussion about any of these roles please contact us by emailing [email protected] and we will give you a call at your convenience.
In your online application, please ensure you upload a copy of your CV when completing your online application:
- Grade 5 Adult Social Worker Job and Person Profile
- Grade 5 Safeguarding Social Worker Job and Person Profile
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 March 2023.
We will interview applicants for posts as they apply.
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.
