Social Worker - Adults

We are currently looking to recruit dynamic, experienced Social Workers for our Adult Social Care teams across Dorset.

We have vacancies within our Peripatetic, Locality, Mental Health, Hospital Discharge (Home First) and Learning Disability teams with roles in Bridport, Dorchester, Weymouth and Portland, Ferndown, Wareham, Blandford, Shaftesbury and Sherborne.

These roles are difficult to match for impact and variety. You’ll find a challenging and highly rewarding career with us, where you’ll have every opportunity to make a positive difference to people’s lives.

We offer hybrid and flexible working, supporting working from home. For an informal chat about any of these roles, or to explore any other roles in Social Work within Adult Care, please drop us a line at PAHCentralisedRecruitment@dorsetcouncil.gov.uk and we will get straight back in touch.

What’s in it for you:

• We are an organisation with a strong commitment to a strengths-based approach in our relationships with customers and employees alike. We foster a vibrant, happy, and high achieving workforce
• We offer regular, reflective supervision that supports Continuous Professional Development
• We are an organisation that is proud of its robust learning and development offer. This includes mentoring and coaching, various external training including BIA, AMHP, access to RIPFA courses, Community Care Inform and internal training to support development in specific areas of practice
• We promote career development
• We offer access to wellbeing support and other support services
• We offer generous relocation and retention packages (please see below)
• You will have access to the Local Government Pension scheme
• We offer a minimum of 27 days holiday and the option to purchase more
• We proudly offer hybrid and flexible working options, supporting a harmonious work-life balance

What you can expect to be doing:

You will be undertaking strengths-based assessments, support planning and reviews to support customers to achieve their outcomes and promote their independence.

You will be working as part of a busy team and alongside other teams within the local authority.

Multi-disciplinary practice will be integral to the role.
About you:

You will be a dynamic Social Worker with a strong value base and sense of person-centred practice. Our ethos revolves around bolstering support, fostering a culture of learning, nurturing development, and nurturing well-being throughout our entire workforce through a strengths-based approach.

You will have excellent communication skills, enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, have a flexible approach and be able to work closely with a range of professionals.

You will be creative and passionate about enabling people to be as independent as possible.

You will need to be confident with the legal basis for practice and be able to demonstrate a good understanding of the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Mental Health Act 2007, Human Rights Act 1998 and Equality Act 2010.

You will embrace continuous professional development.

We invite you to demonstrate how you evidence these within your application.

You will embody our behaviours responsibility, respect, recognition, and collaboration. https://intranet.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/about/our-behaviours/

We invite you to demonstrate how you evidence these within your application.