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Job Title: Social Worker
Salary: £39,152 – £40,777 per annum + relocation allowance of up to £8,000
Deadline: 31/08/2025
Roles & Responsibilities
- Listen to the people of Gloucestershire, supporting them to
connect to community resources, including promoting digital
inclusion; recognising the opportunities and risk of new
technologies, digital resources, online communications, virtual
environments and social media in social work.
• Take a strengths-based approach, which seeks to be inclusive,
anti- discriminatory, and anti-oppressive within practice.
• To practice in a professionally curious manner, feeling
confident to ask difficult questions in a supportive, personcentred manner.
• Prioritise supporting people in crisis to regain control of their
lives, taking a holistic approach in working together to achieve
effective plans to balance risk and ensure people are more
stable and enabled to live their lives.
• In line with the Care Act, undertake complex social care
interventions including assessments, to determine eligibility,
and support plans, to ensure individuals are enabled to lead
the lives they choose.
• To coordinate and manage section 42 safeguarding enquiries
and complex, high-risk situations, utilising professional
judgement throughout.
• To promote social change and development, social cohesion
and the empowerment and liberation of people. - To develop and maintain an in-depth knowledge of local
resources, working collaboratively with teams and services both
within and outside of Gloucestershire County Council.
• To be an active participant of your team, supporting the development
of others and committed to own professional development to deliver
the best quality practice for the people of Gloucestershire.
• To take responsibility for obtaining regular, effective supervision
from a professional supervisor/manager and appraisal to discuss
effective practice, reflection, continuing professional development
and career opportunities.
• To take ownership of and responsibility for delivering against
team and individual performance targets. Translating data and
maintaining an awareness of own professional limitations and
knowledge gaps and seeking to address these.
• To contribute to the development of the service by
communicating new ideas, through means such as briefings,
completion of council surveys, and team meetings.
• To develop and maintain good working relationships with other
professionals within the team, wider service area, and partner
agencies to ensure an integrated, holistic and multidisciplinary Approach.
Eligibility Requirements
The ideal candidate will have…
Experience of…
- Working in a social worker position, preferably with adults in a
statutory setting
• Working with people with multiple complex needs and supporting
them to live their best life, in line with statutory duties
• undertaking assessments to form professional judgement, and of
implementing plans in line with these judgements
• Working with high-risk situations, including safeguarding enquiries
and other multi-agency risk management procedures.
• Applying critical reflection and analysis to increasingly complex
cases and situations
Knowledge, Skills and Understanding
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- An understanding of statutory social work, including current issues
and new evidence–informed practice research
• A sound understanding and application of legislative frameworks
underpinning adult social care, for example the Care Act, the
Mental Capacity Act (MCA) and the Human Rights Act
• A critical knowledge of the range of theories and models for social
work intervention
• Ensure a high level of confidentiality is maintained for individuals,
their carers and families and to manage the security of information
• Ability to communicate with compassion and authority in challenging
situations, and able to understand and work effectively with negative
and rejecting responses
• Ability to write accurate, timely and effective records
• Ability to exercise individual judgement
• Ability to manage complex workloads independently and seek
support where and when appropriate
Good level of IT literacy in Microsoft Office, including Teams,
SharePoint, Word, and Outlook.
Behavioural attributes
- Aligns with Gloucestershire Leadership / Employee Values and
behaviours
• Actively asks for and considers other people’s views and opinions
• Is available and approachable and takes time to consult and
communicate
• Able to work well as part of a team and on own initiative
• Listens to others and communicates with sensitivity and
understanding
• Acknowledges, respects and responds to individual differences and
diversity requirements, recognising discriminatory practices and
inequality, and is able to appropriately challenge others
• Confident to hold difficult conversations with peers, colleagues,
people who draw on services and their carers
• Stays calm under pressure
• Accepts and responds to constructive feedback
• Identifies and takes up opportunities for professional development
and training relevant to the role
• Acts with integrity, honesty and impartiality
• Contributes to the development of the service
• Ability to operate in a climate of change and to embrace news ways
of thinking and working
• Creativity and curiosity in practice, exploring options to solve
dilemmas and problems.
• Highly organised with a solution-focused, logical and innovative
approach to challenges.
Education & Qualifications
Essential
- Social Work qualification
• Social Work registration with professional body in England
• Evidence of Assessed and Supported Year in Employment (ASYE –
applicable since 2012), equivalent qualification or 2+ years post
qualifying statutory experience
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
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