Social Worker Derby, England
Job description
Directorate: People Services
Hours: 37 hours a week
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: The Council House, Derby
Derby City Council is an innovative and forward-thinking Council, committed to developing more practical and proportionate ways of undertaking adult social care assessments, support planning and interventions to enable the residents of Derby to live full and active lives.
An exciting opportunity has arisen enabling the recruitment of a Social Worker to join one of our locality teams. The worker will carry out social care assessments and support customers to create individualised support plans to meet their identified needs. The successful candidates will be based in the West Community Support team; working with a wide range of customers aged 18 and over including individuals with Learning Disabilities, Physical Disabilities and Older People.
You will be a qualified Social Worker registered with Social Work England. You will need to have excellent communication and listening skills, with the confidence and ability to negotiate and challenge appropriately. You will need to have a detailed understanding of the Care Act and be able to implement an asset-based approach to your work. You will be able to work and manage a case load independently and also work as part of a team.
The closing date for this vacancy is Monday 19th June at midnight. Any application forms received after the closing date will not be accepted.
As part of our safer recruitment checks the successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.
All employees will normally be appointed to the minimum of the grade for the job. For reasons connected with a particular need of the Council it may be appropriate, subject to approval, to appoint to a higher point in the pay grade.
Please be aware that where there are staff within the organisation who are 'at risk' of redundancy, requirements to redeploy to another suitable role will apply and take priority.
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