Shared Services Partnership
Location
Basingstoke, Hampshire | United Kingdom
Job description
Salary Range: £30,859 to £33,951 pro rata, per annum
Work Location: Hybrid working (home and office based), Basingstoke, Totton or Havant
Hours per week: 37 (part-time hours will be considered)
Contract type: Temporary for 24 months
Closing Date: 17 March 2024
Interview Date: w/c 25 March 2024
Joining our Physical Disabilities team, supported by qualified social/health care professionals, you’ll assess the needs of adults in the community and provide them with support and guidance to maximise their wellbeing. Using a person-centred approach, you'll use your knowledge of strengths-based practice to focus on people’s resourcefulness and abilities and enable them to develop the best strategies to face life’s challenges and live independently and safely in the community.
Using your strong relationship management and negotiation skills, you’ll collaborate with service users, their families, providers, and other health care professionals. As a Senior Case Worker you’ll support more complex cases and provide coaching and mentoring support to Case Workers. As this role sits within our reviewing set-up, your work will be countywide, however your office base will be either Basingstoke, Totton or Havant, depending on which is closest to your home address.
Take a look at our Candidate Pack for more information about the role, team and our values. The section ‘About you’ explains what specific knowledge, skills and experience we want you to tell us about. Make sure you explain how you meet these requirements and demonstrate our values, in your application.
Joining us as a Senior Case Worker can lead to a fantastic career in Adults’ Health and Care. Our experienced Senior Case Workers can be considered for our social work apprenticeship scheme, which is currently run by the University of Winchester leading to a career as a Qualified Social Worker.
Within our Community Teams, we’re investing in creating the right conditions to ensure our Senior Case Workers can work flexibly and are given the capacity to provide the excellent level of support and attention needed to make a real difference to the lives of the people in our community. We believe our staff deserve to feel fulfilled professionally and enjoy a good balance between work and home life. We provide our teams with a safe and supportive working environment, offering regular supervision, mentoring and Continuous Professional Development opportunities, alongside a competitive Benefits Package .
You will be required to travel to various locations within Hampshire or other local authority and it is essential that you have a current drivers’ licence and access to a reliable vehicle on a regular basis.
We recruit for attitudes and values in Adults’ Health and Care. We invite you to evidence how you demonstrate our 5 core values in your application. For more information on our values, please refer to the candidate pack.
Find out more about Working with us in Adults’ Health and Care, including our benefits and the recruitment process.
This post is subject to a Criminal Records Check.
For general enquiries contact [email protected] For an informal chat about the role contact Gareth Watkins, Senior Social Worker on [email protected]
Hampshire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all employees, workers and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.
In order to combat discrimination, no unnecessary conditions or requirements will be applied which could have a disproportionately adverse effect on any one group. All sections of the population will have equal access to jobs. No applicant or employee will receive less favourable treatment because of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership and pregnancy or maternity, unless a Genuine Occupational Requirement (GOR) applies.
We are a Disability Confident Employer – committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.
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