Social Worker – Adults with Learning Disabilities Team
Job Summary
Working Pattern:
Full time
Advert Start Date:
07/05/2024
Advert End Date:
06/06/2024 12:00
Salary:
£34,834 to £42,403 pa Career Grade (Bar at £36,648 & £38,223 & £40,221)
Job Category:
Social Work - Adult Service
Employment Location:
Town Hall, South Shields
Further Information
Social Worker – Adults with Learning Disabilities Team
£34,834 to £42,403 pa Career Grade (Bar at £36,648 & £38,223 & £40,221)
About Us: Adult Social Care is changing in South Tyneside. We are a forward-thinking Council that is developing innovative approaches to meet our challenges. Focusing on People, Place and Partnerships, this is a great time to join us. With our new Council Leadership, and a recent service review, we are developing a new 5-year Vision and Strategy for Adult Social Care to help support the next stage of our journey. Working closely with all our partners our vision for the future is to see every person in South Tyneside with care and support needs “Living Better Lives”, to fully utilise their strengths and assets, to remain safe and well; in the neighbourhoods and communities they call home. We want to work with all our partners to ensure the person only need tell their story once and that they have equal voice in co-ordinating their care and support. We understand promoting the importance of social justice and inclusion, respecting people’s rights, citizenship and participation.
Joining us at this time will ensure you are at the forefront of helping to develop and embed co-production and co-delivery, delivering new models of working through our Adult Social Care framework and contributing to our ambitious plans to fully embed our strengths-based practice, improve services and deliver better outcomes for the people of South Tyneside. We remain fully committed to supporting our staff to grow and develop, and we will provide you with the opportunity to use your skills and learn new ones. Through the development of our new Values and Behaviour Framework we will fully support staff to become Curious, Accountable, Responsive and Empowered (CARE).
About the Role:
Working as a Social Worker is both challenging and rewarding. Assigned to our Learning Disability Team you will undertake a range of strengths-based interventions to ensure adults with care and support needs and their families and carers' achieve their desired outcomes.
You will be able to access a fully comprehensive programme of learning and development and receive the opportunity to further develop your PQ to support your future progression.
For more information about the role please contact Kirsty Rowe, Learning Disabilities Team Manager on (0191) 4244064 or Kirsty.Rowe@southtyneside.gov.uk
About You: Driven by research, innovation and the desire to develop best practice, you must demonstrate an applied knowledge of Adult Social Care legislation and the NHS Continuing Health Care Framework and be willing to undertake further bespoke learning and development to support your future progression.
As an experienced Social Worker you will want to continue practicing in a setting that believes that people are at their healthiest and happiest when they are supported to remain independent, close to the people they love and who love them, in the neighbourhoods and communities they call home.
This role is a great opportunity for someone with the right drive and ambition to join our highly motivated teams. The successful applicant will share our enthusiasm, contributing to and influencing improved performance at an individual, team and service level.
We offer an excellent benefits package and further information is available here - www.southtyneside.gov.uk/workinghere
South Tyneside Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) disclosure will be sought along with other relevant pre-employment checks.
For those posts where there is a requirement to either work in or enter a Care Quality Commission Regulated Care Home (CQC) it would be preferred but optional, that you have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (unless medical exempt) as a condition of employment.
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Closing date: Noon, 6 June 2024
Interviews will take place on 1 July 2024