Adult's Senior Social Worker - Fenland Learning Disability Team

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About the role

The Fenland Learning Disability Team offers an exciting opportunity for a Senior Social Worker to join us in a permanent role. This full-time position (37 hours) is based at Hereward Hall in March, with the option for home working as part of a hybrid role.

The Cambridgeshire Learning Disability Partnership (LDP) unites specialist health and social care services for people with learning disabilities. The LDP commissions and provides these services on behalf of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) and Cambridgeshire County Council.

To discuss this role further, contact Lucy Gooding via e-mail at Lucy.Gooding@cambridgeshire.gov.uk .

Interviews are scheduled for February 24, 2025.

We seek exceptional Social Workers to join us on our journey. For an informal discussion about our vacancies, contact Beth at 01480 372 425 or e-mail welovesocialworkers@cambridgeshire.gov.uk .

Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We proudly serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and aim for our workforce to reflect this diversity, benefiting our employees, the organisation, and the communities we serve.

What will you be doing?

Senior Social Workers play a pivotal role within the team. You'll work with adults with a Learning Disability who have care and support needs, along with their informal or formal carers, to help them meet their outcomes. You will manage complex cases, including complex safeguarding enquiries, deprivation of liberty applications, and other court of protection work.

We depend on our Senior Social Workers to provide crucial leadership in our most challenging cases, setting clear examples for less experienced team members. You'll exemplify the high standards we expect in every case, ensuring that every service user's needs are met with proactive and personalised care.

Effective assessment and support planning in complex cases are crucial, and you will take the lead in these situations. You will liaise with colleagues and third parties to ensure appropriate and effective action is taken. You will monitor and evaluate the support provided to service users, continually looking for ways to innovate in care delivery where it benefits the service user.

You will provide line management, support, and guidance to the wider team. You will support the development of others while having opportunities to further your own skills and knowledge.

Your leadership role will also include supervising the practice and performance of social workers and adult support coordinators in the team. Using your experience, you will be a creative coach in supervision, enable practice improvements, and provide valuable feedback through staff appraisals.

As you work with adults in need of care and support services, along with their informal carers, it will be crucial to work in partnership with them to establish needs and ensure they are met.

This role isn't just about delivering care; it's about providing service users with choice and control over their lives and empowering independence.

About you

We are looking for applicants who have a Social Work qualification and are 2 years post completion of the ASYE programme.

Experience of providing line management support, making Safeguarding Personal investigations, completing complex case work, including Court of Protection Deprivation of Liberty applications, and experience of using Mosaic data base would be desirable.

You will be able to work autonomously, as well as supporting other team member as part of multi-disciplinary working with health and social care colleagues.

For a full list of the requirements of the role, please check out the Job Description & Person Specification.

Our benefits

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage...

• A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
• 6 days of protected time each year to support in maintaining your Continuous Professional Development
• A relocation package of up to £8,000 (eligibility applies)
• A pay progression scheme to enable you to accelerate through the pay grade as you gain experience and skills
• Scalable retention payments of up to £8,852 over a 3 year period, starting after your first full year of employment, in specific teams
• A Refer a Friend Scheme where if you refer another Social Worker to us who is subsequently employed by us as a result of that introduction, we'll pay you an introduction fee of £350
• Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth

For more information and to see our other benefits, take a look at the benefits brochure attached to this advert.

About us

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don't meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don't be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Some examples of adjustments could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.

https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers

Attached documents

• Senior Social Worker Adult Social Care.pdf
• Adults Social Worker Benefits Brochure.pdf