Progressed Social Worker

Cheshire East is an amazing place to live and work. As one of the largest employers in the borough, we are able to offer you a wide range of challenging and rewarding career opportunities.

At Cheshire East Council we are working for a brighter future – together and our commitment to you is that our workplace culture will provide a shared purpose, a well-led organisation with valued people succeeding together as one team and one council to deliver the best service for our customers and communities.

If you want to be part of our award-winning council and contribute to our ongoing success, have the flexibility and drive to enable us to innovate, are committed to working as part of a team and striving to deliver exceptional service wherever you can, we would especially like to hear from you.

As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and want our workforce to reflect the diversity of our local communities so that we can all work for a brighter future - together.

Brighter Future

Employee benefits (cheshireeast.gov.uk)

The Preparing for Adult hood team is situated within the learning disability service. We support young people transitioning from children services as they prepare for adult hood. Workers will explore preparing for adult hood outcomes with young people and take a creative approach to access services to meet these outcomes. Workers practice in a multi disciplinary way, linking in with health professionals, Mental Health services, Children services, educational services, Housing and voluntary sector services as they take a collaborative approach to supporting people within its footprint.

What we are looking for:

• enthusiastic Social Workers who have a good understanding of adult safeguarding, mental capacity and Best Interest decisions making.
• The candidate should be self-motivated with excellent communication skills and have the ability to work within the Preparing for adulthood team and wider learning disability service.
• Good organisational skills and time management is key to effectively managing caseloads.
• The candidates should be able to provide a client centred approach to care and demonstrate sound knowledge through evidence-based assessments and management of support in a variety of situations.
• It will be essential for the post holder to work autonomously within the Council’s policies and professional practice, in addition to maintaining accurate and comprehensive client documentation.

The post holder will be based at Westfields in Sandbach, but hybrid working is available so includes working at home and options to base yourself in other offices around Cheshire East.

Cheshire East Council operates a ‘flexible and mobile’ working policy.

For further information please contact Emily Greensmith, Practice Manager on 07813362418 or Emily.greensmith2@cheshireeast.gov.uk

Cheshire East Council is committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults across the Borough. As such, any cautions, convictions, reprimands or final warnings that are ‘not protected’ as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) order 1975 (as amended in 2013) relating to the non-disclosure of spent convictions do not apply to this job. You must therefore, disclose whether you have any previous convictions where prompted to do so within the application process.

Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.

If you have not heard from us within 4 weeks of the closing date then it is likely that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion, however please do not be discouraged from applying again.

For any technical enquiries please email sourcingteam@ecwip.co.uk

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