Job Introduction
Are you looking to work for a welcoming, friendly team that will thoroughly support you?
The Bath Social Care Team are looking for passionate individuals to join a team who are focused on excellent social care, where you are an integral part of our multi-professional provision in Adult Social Care.
The team is experienced and supportive and consists of Social Workers, Social Care Practitioners, Occupational Therapists and an Admin team.
What is in it for you!
As a social worker, your work will be rewarding, and you will enjoy the challenges that come with practicing social work in the World Heritage site of Bath and North East Somerset. This is an excellent opportunity to develop social work skills and knowledge in an experienced team that is supportive and reflective who continuously achieve greatness. As a team we focus on professional growth and development and will ensure you feel valued every day.
Alongside this, as a social worker you will receive: Regular supervision, support, peer supervision and team touchdown meetings: Training includes access to legal masterclasses - subjects like trauma informed practice, strength and asset based practice, having 'difficult discussions and chairing meetings. ASYE social workers are supported with regular month training and learning sets, peer support across the organisation.
Hybrid Working, we are proud of our office culture and want it to be rewarding and engaging environment, particularly for new members of staff and students. Hybrid working to provide you with that true work / life balance. We have a commitment to work in the office 50% of the time.
We have informative team meetings that provide opportunities for speakers, training, complex case discussion, champion roles feedback, snacks and so much more .
Interviews planned for 19th and 20th September
Main Responsibility
Responsibilities include:
- Assessing the needs of service users and carers, taking care to understand the individual’s priorities and circumstances,
- Planning, implementing and evaluating outcomes, working with and for individuals.
- Identifying and delivering genuine person-centred, strengths-based support,
- Connecting service users and their families with suitable community resources and services.
- Supporting people to make their own decisions, championing the principles of choice and control to have services organised and risks managed.
- Working closely with the community and partner agencies and have the ability to understand local needs by supporting individuals in a positive and responsive way.
- Maintaining your professional standards as our service continues to develop
- You will work in line with best practise legislation to promote the wellbeing and dignity of service users
- Take necessary and statutory action in accordance with Safeguarding procedures to protect vulnerable adults.
If you would like any more information about the position or team please contact me at Suzanne.Michael@hcrgcaregroup.com or see the attached Job Description.
The Ideal Candidate
We will expect you to be highly motivated, passionate about social care and committed to your own continuous professional development. You will also need to be able to work under pressure, be legally literate and have a good understanding of the Care Act (20140 ) and the MCA(2005), strengths based and personalised social work.
We are looking for someone who is flexible and adaptable in their practice, someone who is creative, innovative and searches for imaginative solutions that are not always obvious. You need to be self-motivated, pragmatic, and resilient.
You must be qualified with a social work degree or equivalent and be a registered social worker with Social Work England: or will be newly qualified and looking to gain invaluable experience with our team.
We welcome applications from Social Work students who are about to graduate, but who have not registered with SWE.
Package Description
You will be based at our St Martins Hospital, Bath base where we have both Full time (37.5 hours per week) and Part time (18.5 hours per week) options.
You will feel valued as a Social Worker with HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
A £2000 Welcome Bonus will also be given to the successful candidate!
- £32,688- 36,616 and Agenda for Change terms and conditions –including an NHS pension. For ASYE candidates this salary will be £32,688
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ring fenced innovation funding each year
- Free access to Employee Assistance Programme
- Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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