Are you a Social Worker passionate about working with people to promote independence, dedicated to making a difference and looking for your next career move? We have a full‑time Senior Social Worker position available in our Stroud Locality Team. The Senior Social Worker role could be the perfect next step of your career; with this role offering you more challenge and complexity, without the added management responsibility. We look to our Senior Social Workers to provide expert social work practice in complex situations, assessing and managing higher levels of risk. You will work closely with a range of professionals and more senior managers to ensure a balance of support and independence is achieved, through offering expert evidence based opinion.
Qualifications & Responsibilities
* Have a social work qualification and be SWE registered.
* Have completed your ASYE programme and have at least 2 years post completion service.
* Enjoy working in a fast‑paced environment.
* Have the passion to promote people’s strengths and the ability to make a difference in a safe working approach to social work practice.
* Have up‑to‑date knowledge of legislation and demonstrable experience of providing credible approaches to practice.
* Be able to prioritise, using a risk‑based approach.
It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a 'customer facing role' must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English. Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.
Benefits
* Safe, supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision and informal support.
* Accredited post‑qualified training opportunities, enabling you to develop your skills.
* Personal licences to Adults CCINFORM.
* Transfer options after one year in post, allowing for continuous development of skills and knowledge in different Adult Social Care settings.
* Access to mandatory training and additional topical bi‑annual workshops.
* Strong emphasis on a supportive working environment and developing our employees with 94% having participated in their annual appraisal and regular health and wellbeing events.
Our values are at the heart of everything we do and how we treat each other. They provide essential guiding principles about the way that we work and set the tone for our culture. If you hold the same behaviours and approach, then we want to hear from you! In exchange, we will provide you with full training and support to help you succeed in your role. Why Gloucestershire? This is a fantastic opportunity to join our Stroud team. You can be confident of becoming part of a welcoming, supportive, passionate, innovative and very experienced team. We use the Three Conversation approach, a model that re‑emphasises focus on people, their strengths and the networks and community around them. The suitable candidate will be well supported within their role and will receive regular supervision. We fully support hybrid and agile working and ask teams to be in the office on days they are working together and holding their 'huddles' (where teams work together on exploring how to support the people we work with.)
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