An exciting opportunity has arisen for a part-time permanent social worker with suitable experience and preferably with AMHP qualification in the Cheshire West and Chester Emergency Duty Team. This service provides an out of hours emergency social work service to vulnerable adults and children in the Cheshire West and Chester borough.
Cheshire West and Chester Council is a place where everyone can Thrive – through our core values of Teamwork, Honesty, Respect, Innovation, Value for Money and Empowerment.
Permanent hours Social Worker vacancy Emergency Duty Team - EDT- Cheshire West and Chester Grade plus % out of hours enhancement.
We are excited to recruit to this role within the Emergency Duty Team, which explicitly covers out of hours social work response. As a generic social work service, we cover the entire county of Cheshire West responding to urgent assessments that cannot safely wait until the next day.
You must be a qualified and registered Social Worker with experience, highly skilled and out of hours working suits your lifestyle and other commitments.
In this role you will have the fantastic opportunity to work within a small team of experienced staff where you will be prioritising need and making effective and sound judgements in a variety of challenging situations. We are looking for social workers who are AMHP qualified (or willing to train) and have experience of Adults and Children's work. A good understanding of statutory responsibilities across services is essential including Adult Safeguarding, Child Protection, Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act.
Knowledge of legislative frameworks including the Children Act (), Mental Health Act () as amended (), the Mental Capacity Act (), the Care Act () is required.
You should be confident in your decision making, able to work autonomously and be proactive, with excellent organisation and recording skills. You should have the ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing. You would make positive use of supervision and contribute to the team development and understand the council’s priorities, values and expected behaviours.
You will work to a rolling rota which includes weekends, night working and bank holiday cover. The week rota runs consecutively, annual leave is included in the time off, with the rota as a very attractive pattern - working to shifts a week with a break of consecutive days down time. This occurs nearly times in the year and is a great working balance for those who can commit to their out of hours shifts.
Shift patterns can change due to needs of the service demands, though we have operated with this model for a decade.
The out of hours working and lone working overnight role, is supported by a % enhancement to the grade. It would be preferred that staff live within a twenty five mile radius of the office base in Chester. The contracted working is a Hybrid model which requires some shifts must in the central office setting and others are working from home. For those who prefer working in the office setting and around fellow professionals, there will be this option in to do so / which fits well with EDT.
Our Social Care workforce is passionate and committed to improving outcomes in our authority by providing a consistent, high quality service to individuals and families together with the support from excellent leadership and management. It is a good time to join our authority. We are very proud to be mentioned in the most recent Children’s services Ofsted as a strong EDT with excellent safeguarding. As well, as in the CQC Adults services inspection as again, being commended as a strong and stable EDT with excellent safeguarding of vulnerable adults. Since we have operated under 'Our Way of Working' alongside our multi-agency partners in order to ensure improved collaboration and to have one common approach to practice Motivational Interviewing and Trauma Informed Practice.
As a local authority, we have developed an inspirational social work offer to support and develop our valued workforce, including;
High quality progression and developmental opportunities; including aspiring and Practice Educator programmes.
Work-life balance and competitive working rewards
High quality supervision
Strong reflective practice framework