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Social Worker - Transfer of Care Team

Job Reference Ref/235/439

Number of Positions:
3
Contract Type:
Full Time
Salary Range :
£38,258 - £40,958 plus up to 15% salary enhancement!
Working Hours:
37
Location:
28 Long Road Cambridge
Job Category:
Social Worker - Adults
Organisation:
Cambridgeshire County Council

Our benefits

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits:

  • Flexible and creative working arrangements
  • Flexible Bank Holidays
  • A comprehensive wellbeing package
  • Our Cambs Rewards employee discounts
  • A comprehensive pension scheme
  • IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
  • Camweb our staff intranet helping to keep you informed
  • An employee recognition scheme

For our Social Workers, we offer more specific benefits like:

  • Generous annual leave provision (28 days, plus bank holidays)
  • supportive management team that will champion your learning and development
  • Employee Assistance Programme – access to free support 24 hours a day
  • Payment for business mileage expenses (45p per mile)
  • Scalable retention payments to loyal social workers in specific teams after the first full year of employment, starting at £900 which increases during the first three years of service
  • pay progression scheme to enable our Social Workers to accelerate through the pay grade as you gain experience and skills.
  • relocation package of up to £8000 for eligible candidates
  • Plus, 6 days of protected time each year to enable our Social Workers to maintain their Continuous Professional Development

Our Transfer of Care Teams also receive up to 15% salary enhancement!

Please read our benefits brochure attached for more information.

About the role

Are you looking for a new exciting and challenging career opportunity? Are you a Social Worker looking for change? If you are adaptable, up for a challenge and keen to test yourself in a fast moving and pressurised environment, then this could be the social care role for you.

We are looking for Social Workers to join our South Transfer of Care Team working predominantly from Cambridge University Hospital (Addenbrookes).  Part time hours may be considered.  

We provide support to adults being discharged from hospitals and rehabilitation setting. You will be imaginative and dynamic and make a positive contribution to delivering good outcomes for people who have care and support needs. You will be a person-centred practitioner with excellent communication skills and to be able work within a multidisciplinary setting. 

The Transfer of Care Teams operate within specific office hours, but that does not mean we will not consider flexible working opportunities. Our staff receive a salary enhancement between 7% and 15% depending on their selected working pattern.

  • 7% for 1 weekend day a month and 1 Bank Holiday a year
  • 8% for 1 weekend day a month and 2 Bank Holidays a year
  • 10% for 1 weekend day a month and 3 Bank Holidays a year
  • 15% for 2 weekend days a month and 3 Bank Holidays a year

You will still only work 5 days per week (full-time), meaning you get a day off during the week that you’re working at the weekend or Bank Holiday. 

While this is a fast-paced and highly demanding job, our team offers excellent support from both colleagues and managers, and opportunities to develop your knowledge. We are able to balance the work that needs to be done and what can we do to support you to keep on top of your workload.

For further information about these roles, get in touch with us today by calling Nathalie on 01223 699263. Alternatively, you can email us on welovesocialworkers@cambridgeshire.gov.uk or visit our website for more information.

This is a rolling campaign, and we will review applications daily so please don't wait for the closing date to apply, we want to speak to you now!

We know that your time is precious, so our interviews are generally held virtually, by Microsoft Teams, to provide the most flexible recruitment process. We may include a virtual assessment as part of this, but we’ll give you all of the relevant information ahead of time.

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.

IMPORTANT: Roles based in Cambridge University Hospital will require you to able to evidence that you have had a number of vaccinations, or to be willing to undergo a blood test to evidence this. If you have not had the required vaccinations, you may be required to do so prior to starting employment. As part of your pre-employment checks you will need to provide evidence of your vaccinations. Your employment will not commence until this evidence is received. Please contact us for more information on this, including which vaccinations are required.

About you

We're looking for confident and dynamic individuals who enjoy making a difference in their local community, are curious and spot things that others might not see, enjoys building relationships and likes to explore possibilities.

You must:

  • Be a qualified Social Worker with a Social Work England registration
  • Have the ability to work from a variety of locations and travel countywide independently

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

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. 

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

 

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