* Directorate BHCC: Homes and Adult Social Care
* Contract Fixed Term
* Closing Date Apply by 13 July 2025
Location
Bartholomew House
Job Summary
Job reference
* Positions available 2
Working hours
* Working hours 37
* Closing date 13 July 2025
Job category
* Job category Social Work - Adults
Organisation
* Organisation Brighton & Hove City Council
Job introduction
Changing Futures Social Worker - Fixed-Term Contract Until 31 March 2026
Do you want to be involved in a new, innovative and dynamic Programme achieving inspiring work to improve the life chances of the most vulnerable people in society? If so, join us!
An opportunity has arisen for 2 Social Workers to join the Changing Futures Team within Brighton & Hove City Council (Health & Adult Social Care - HASC). In Brighton and Hove Adult Social Care we passionately believe that putting relationship-based practice at the centre of everything we do enables us to provide consistent and quality support to citizens within the city so that they can lead independent and fulfilled lives. To achieve this as a full time worker within the team you will hold a maximum case load of 10 - 12 clients. Brighton and Hove have a unique demographic which makes it a challenging yet very rewarding place to work. Working closely with our partner agencies, we continue to be at the forefront of making a positive difference in challenging times.
This role is available as fixed term opportunity to external applicants and is available as a secondment to internal applicants in line with our secondment policy.
Before applying, please ensure you have readthe Secondment policy to ensure you are eligible to apply. In accordance with the policy, please ensure you have the written approval of your line manager before applying. Evidence of this must be included with your application.
About the role
The Changing Futures Team aims to create an environment where individuals experiencing multiple complex needs, who repeatedly fall through the net of service provision, receive flexible, trauma informed, person-centred support. The service aims to enable positive changes in services; to make them better connected, and easier to access.
Social Workers within Changing Futures will be part of a multi-disciplinary team who will adopt a curious, creative and collaborate approach to service provision. They will be responsible for discharging the local authority’s statutory duties under the Care Act 2014 and Mental Capacity Act 2005. We are looking for innovative thinkers and those that truly believe and practice a trauma informed approach. The team includes Social Workers, Homeless Prevention Officers, Community support workers, a Domestic Violence and Abuse Worker, a Recovery Coordinator, as well as Peer Support workers with lived experience. The team is part of the wider Changing Futures Sussex Systems Change priorities to identify blocks and barriers in the system, recognising best practice and flexible working to overcome the challenges facing people with multiple complex needs.
Multiple disadvantage or multiple complex needs is defined as people who experience three or more of: homelessness, current or historical offending, substance misuse, domestic abuse, and mental ill health.
The role covers service delivery across Brighton & Hove. Hybrid working arrangements are applicable to the role, this includes elements of office-based working, client visits and working from home.
Fixed term for: Fixed-Term contract 37 Hours until March 2026
Closing date: 13th July 2025
Interview date: Thursday 22nd July 2025 Interviews will be held in person at Bartholomew House, Bartholomew Square, Brighton or by video (to be confirmed)
A registered social worker, with experience working directly with vulnerable adults and their families, completing assessments, using legal frameworks, and creating care plans. A good knowledge of psychological development, systemic approaches, and interventions.
You should have had experience of:
• Working with diverse and complex situations and in multi-disciplinary contexts
• Completing assessments and safeguarding enquiries using the Care Act
• Working with people protected by DoLS and/or the provisions of the Mental Capacity Act.
You must also be able to:
• Communicate effectively both orally and in writing
• Prioritise work in accordance with demand and risk
• Promote and sustain professional relationships with a wide range of people including those with care needs, their family/carers, other professionals and relevant agencies
In return we will offer you regular 1-2-1 supervision meetings, bi-annual appraisals, a career average pension scheme, generous leave entitlement, flexible working opportunities plus a range of other staff benefits.
*Please note: Warranted Approved Mental Health Act Professionals (AMHPs) will be encouraged to take part in rota arrangements for the AMHP provision across the city. The AMHP service operates from the AMHP team’s base at Millview Hospital in Hove. A market supplement of £1,503 p.a. is paid for 30 days a year on this rota, subject to satisfactory adherence to the 2008 Regulations for AMHPs.
As part of your application, you will need to complete your education and work history and provide answers to some shortlisting questions. Your answers to the shortlisting questions are the most important part of your application as they will be used in the shortlisting process to assess whether you meet the essential requirements for the role that are set out in the person specification and to decide whether you should be offered an interview. Before you start your application, please read our guidance here (Shortlisting questions guidance (brighton-hove.gov.uk) as this gives important advice which will increase your chance of success in the shortlisting process.
Additional information
Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.
We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining.
Please note that this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, and is subject to a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Check.
Encouraging a diverse workforce
Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.
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