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Social Worker

Job Summary
Contract Type:
Permanent
Working Pattern:
Please see advert text
Advert Start Date:
18/02/2020
Advert End Date:
Closed for applications on 04/03/2020 12:00
Salary:
£29,636 to £36,876 pa pro rata Career Grade (Bar at £31,371 & £32,878 & £34,788)
Hours per week:
37 and 18.5
Job Category:
Social Care - Adult Service
Vacancy ID:
196091
Employment Location:
Adults and Integrated Care Services, South Tyneside
Post Number:
CF01820
Number of posts:
2
Closing date:
4 Mar
Further Information
Social Worker – Integrated Community Delivery Team
Adults and Integrated Care Services, South Tyneside
£29,636 to £36,876 pa pro rata Career Grade (Bar at £31,371 & £32,878 & £34,788)

Post A: 37 hpw – Permanent
Post B: 18.5 hpw – Permanent

“South Tyneside is a fantastic place to be; with passionate people, who really care about each other; great partnership working as part of our South Tyneside Alliance; some amazing services and a real sense of community spirit.” If this sounds like the right working environment for your next career move, then come and join us in Adults and Integrated Care.

Having been highly commended in the Skills for Care Accolades awards 2020 for the most effective collaborative approach to integrated new models of care category and a finalist in the national Social Work Awards and the LGC Awards, Adult Social Care in South Tyneside continues to develop and flourish as part of our exciting journey of change.

Working as a Social Worker within our multi-disciplinary Integrated Community Delivery Team is both challenging and rewarding. Assigned to one of three place based locality teams 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. Working with people and their families and carers' remains a central part of what we do to ensure that they are able to make choices and decisions about their lives. Focusing upon individual outcomes; putting the person in control and making the best use of our resources are at the heart of our Adult Social Care Strategy. Our aim is to work with all our partners and deliver Practice to be Proud of to support the people of South Tyneside to Live Better Lives. Our Let’s Talk Together strengths based approach, based on 3 conversations allows us to build effective relationships to find out what really matters to the people we work with and enables us to get to know our surrounding communities, so we can link people with the right level of support.

We remain committed to developing a culture of innovation and continuous improvement, of openness and transparency and of inspirational leadership, grounded in our values and behaviour framework: Moving Forward Together: Our Values; Our Behaviours; Our Future. We want to recruit people who share this aim and provide them with the training and development to do their jobs to the best of their abilities.

If you are committed to adults having choice and control over their support, maximising opportunities for independence and well-being and working in partnership, then this is the job for you. For an informal discussion about the opportunities available please contact Jeanette Penman, Principal Social Worker on (0191) 424 7491 or Lesley Carlisle, Business Change Manager on (0191) 4246175 or email lesley.carlisle@southtyneside.gov.uk

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.

To find out more about this role and to apply please visit www.southtyneside.gov.uk alternatively you can email jobs@southtyneside.gov.uk or call (0191) 455 4968. BT Typetalkers welcome.

Closing date: Noon, 4 March 2020.
Please note
This job is closed for applications.

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