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29.06.2025
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13.08.2025
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About the Role
Join Adult Social Care as a Social Worker and receive a Welcome Bonus* of £ paid in your first month's salary and a Retention Bonus* of £ paid for every complete year in service (*subject to payscale). With a total package up to £51,000 including bonuses and benefits, this is an excellent opportunity to advance your career in social care.
We are looking for experienced Social Workers to join our Locality Team in Adult Social Care. Our mission is to empower adults to live independently as possible, and we need your expertise to make it happen. As a Social Worker working within the Localities team, your responsibilities will include:
1. Undertaking Care Act Assessments - identifying individuals’ care and support needs, ensuring a personalised approach that emphasises the best outcomes
2. Completing Care Act Reviews - evaluating the strength and suitability of an individual's care and support plan, ensuring that it continues to meet their needs and preferences
3. Managing Safeguarding enquiries - investigating concerns about potential abuse or neglect, ensuring the safety and well-being of vulnerable individuals
4. Mental Capacity assessments - determining an individual's ability to make specific decisions regarding their care and treatment
5. Undertaking duty on rota basis
6. Undertaking DSTS and CHC
7. Court related work
Our teams are renowned for their ability to craft outstanding care plans that prioritise the needs and voices of service users, integrating input from various professionals, families/carers, and external agencies to ensure the best outcomes are achieved.
Are you ready to take the next step? We are here to support your growth as you begin your career at Suttons Adult Social Care. Apply now and join us as we navigate this journey toward excellence.
This position offers an excellent opportunity for individuals with outstanding communication skills and a compassionate manner capable of effectively managing high levels of emotional distress. We encourage applications from candidates with experience in adult care and those passionate about delivering person-centred care. You'll join a welcoming, supportive, and energetic team dedicated to providing first class supervision and ongoing professional development opportunities.
In addition, we would expect the following from all suitable candidates:
* To be registered with Social Work England and hold a degree in Social Care or similar.
* 2 years post ASYE working experience as a UK registered social worker
* Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team setting.
* Experience in undertaking complex mental health and physical health cases.
* Sound knowledge and ability to deliver social work support to service users and their families.
* Ability to communicate complex social issues clearly to both patients and professionals.
* Ability to plan and coordinate social care plans and aspects of patient discharge.
About Us
Adult Social Care is undergoing a significant transformation to address the rising demand for our services. We're implementing wide-ranging changes to improve care for adults and create positive working environments for our staff. We have new leaders and experienced managers who bring innovative ideas to the service and are driving meaningful changes throughout your service delivery. Our goal is to deliver exceptional care that enhances outcomes for our community whilst providing an inclusive, diverse and stable environment for staff to grow their career.
For more information on our new operating model and teams, please visit our website.
There are four Locality teams currently in place, aligned to the four Primary Care Network (PCN) footprints - Wallington, Carshalton, Sutton & Cheam. These services are for older people, people with physical and sensory disabilities, and people with mental health-related needs. Locality teams bring Social Workers together with NHS colleagues, supporting holistic, integrated working.
Our Offer To You
As an organisation that values and nurtures talent, we’re committed to helping you fulfil your potential and will offer you a supportive, friendly and collaborative environment to grow and develop your career and skills. We’re constantly striving to improve our ways of working, so your ideas — big or small — will be fully encouraged and supported by your colleagues and our experienced management team.
We offer a modern and flexible working environment supported by our IT infrastructure, including Google Chromebooks and Google Apps. Our Flexible Working - Smarter Working Scheme embraces new ways of working, providing improved work-life balance by allowing staff to work from various locations. Staff are not required to work within the office five days a week.
Employees have access to a wide range of benefits, including:
* Generous annual leave entitlement plus bank holidays (pro-rata if part-time)
* General Council Flexi-time (applicable to roles at grades 1-9)
* Public Health Service Localised Flexi-time Scheme - up to 5 days per year
* Three volunteering days per year in Sutton
* Comprehensive learning and development programmes
* Local and national discounts for shopping, dining, and leisure
* Interest-free season ticket loans
* Local Government Pension Scheme
* Car parking scheme
* Bicycle loan facilities and cycle to work scheme
* Zip car scheme
* Free eye tests and contribution towards glasses
* Confidential wellbeing and counselling support
* Subsidised gym membership
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