Overview
Our Benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits:
- Flexible and creative working arrangements
- Flexible Bank Holidays
- A comprehensive wellbeing package
- Our Cambs Rewards employee discounts
- A comprehensive pension scheme
- IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
- Camweb our staff intranet helping to keep you informed
- An employee recognition scheme
For our Social Workers, we offer more specific benefits like:
- Generous annual leave provision (28 days, plus bank holidays)
- A supportive management team that will champion your learning and development
- Employee Assistance Programme – access to free support 24 hours a day
- Payment for business mileage expenses
- Scalable retention payments to loyal social workers in specific teams after the first full year of employment, starting at £900 which increases during the first three years of service
- A pay progression scheme to enable our Social Workers to accelerate through the pay grade as you gain experience and skills.
- A relocation package of up to £8000 for eligible candidates
- Plus, 6 days of protected time each year to enable our Social Workers to maintain their Continuous Professional Development.
Please read our benefits brochure attached for more information.
About the role
An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Fenland Adult Community Team for two full time Social Workers.
We are looking to recruit experienced, enthusiastic, registered Qualified Social Workers who are strongly committed to working in partnership with the people of Cambridgeshire.
If you are looking for a new challenge, and have the experience and skills to complete Care Act Assessments and Reviews and participate in promoting a learning environment, we would like to hear from you. You will be joining our established team of person centred, passionate, enthusiastic, and committed Social Work and Social Care Practitioners.
Our Community Teams are currently working to a hybrid model, with part-remote and flexible options available in line with our service needs. This includes 9 day fortnights and staggered start and finish times. Once fully trained, our Social Workers will work from the office up to three days each week, the office base for this team is Hereward Hall, March in Cambridgeshire. Office working has proven invaluable to our Social Workers as there are opportunities to share best practice, discuss cases and provide peer support. We hope your practice will benefit greatly from this collaborative working environment.
Should you need any further information please contact Jasmine Osbourne on 07393142462 or at jasmine.osbourne@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
This is a rolling campaign, and we will review applications daily closing the advert as soon as we have filled the vacancy, so please don’t wait to apply, you might miss out, we want to speak to you now!
Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
About you
You will have had experience working with individuals with complex care and support needs, and will be expected to have good working knowledge, experience and understanding of the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act, and other relevant legislation.
You will have experience in completing Safeguarding Adult Enquiries, assessments, and reviews with older people in a timely manner. Experience in record keeping procedures, IT skills and working as a member of a team are essential, along with very good organisational skills.
The post holder will also be experienced in working to tight timescales and commissioning cost-effective, personalised support, to meet the assessed needs of the service users as part of the reviewing process.
Managing Safeguarding as part of Making Safeguarding Personal is part of the role and this can be offered as a development opportunity for the post holder.
You must have the ability to work from a variety of locations and travel countywide independently.
For a full list of the requirements of the role, please check out the Job Description and Person Specification.
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers
