Fixed Term Contract/Secondment Opportunity for 12 months | £19,624 to £21,758 per annum (Scale K) | 18.5 hours per week | County Hall, Norwich
We offer a £2000 welcome payment for qualified and experienced Social Workers (grade J and above), Practice Consultants and Team Managers new to Norfolk County Council.
For experienced Social Workers new to Norfolk County Council we promise to try and match or better your existing salary, providing its in the spectrum of the grade advertised.
Who Cares? We do.
We have the opportunity for a suitably qualified social care individual to join us at practice consultant grade to cover the maternity leave of one of our current Adult Safeguarding Practice Consultant (SAPCs). We are looking for an enthusiastic, hard-working, qualified, social care individual who is passionate about safeguarding and is motivated to help develop this particular area of social work practice.
As we are advertising this post as a secondment opportunity you will need to have gained the permission of your manager to be released from your current post in order to apply for either of these posts. The maternity cover provides a valuable opportunity of gaining an insight into the work of the adult safeguarding team and could help you decide whether a future career progression would be moving into the adult safeguarding team when suitable permanent opportunities arise. The team are experienced individuals who will provide you with all of the support required to enhance both confidence and competence in this particular area of adult social work.
The team covers the whole of Norfolk and will require the successful applicants to hold a complex safeguarding caseload whilst contributing towards the quality and development of the Safeguarding Adults process.
You will provide advice and support to locality, SCCE and Hospital based Social Care staff and will have the opportunity to work closely with Service Providers; the Quality Assurance team; Police and Health colleagues amongst others. A key area of your role will also be the assessing of staff who are completing their Assessed and Supported Year in Employment (ASYE) to ensure their competency in undertaking safeguarding enquiries.
Running alongside the case-holding and case consultation areas of this role are additional areas of work that the team are involved. These will provide you with the opportunity to be involved in more strategic decision groups and also help you develop skills such as interpreting Departmental data reports to enable the team to improve practice quality. You will also take part in the development of the team’s training materials and the delivery of training sessions to Adult Social Care staff.
If you are:
- passionate about Adult Safeguarding and wish to help protect the lives of the most vulnerable Norfolk residents
- hard-working
- able to balance a number of competing areas at any one time
- able to work autonomously, whilst also being a ‘team player’
- able to make difficult and challenging decisions
- wanting to undertake a varied and stimulating role within Adult Social Care,
We want to hear from you.
Who are we?
We are looking for an enthusiastic, hard-working, qualified, social care individual who is passionate about safeguarding and is motivated to help develop this particular area of social work practice.
The team are experienced individuals who will provide you with all of the support required to enhance both confidence and competence in this particular area of adult social work.
The team covers the whole of Norfolk and will require the successful applicants to hold a complex safeguarding caseload whilst contributing towards the quality and development of the Safeguarding Adults process.
What we offer
At Norfolk County Council we are committed to our employees’ learning and development. We offer all Social Workers and Occupational Therapists a protected half day per month for continuing professional development and training.
We want our people to be inspired and motivated to work well together, make the most of our workspaces, enjoy a healthy work-life balance, and deliver excellent services to Norfolk and its people. Flexibility is built into the way we work, with hybrid working a key feature for many roles. Our technology platform and equipment are first class, enabling you to connect and collaborate remotely. We ask that you have in place good Broadband connectivity.
We operate a talent pool scheme whereby candidates who are not successful on this occasion may be considered for a period of up to 3 months for equal positions.
You can also find out about the rewards and benefits we offer as well as our other terms and conditions.
Norwich is the county capital of Norfolk, 120 miles from London and 60 miles from Cambridge. It’s on the edge of the Broads National Park, and a 40-minute drive to the seaside. Norwich is a superb city. It effortlessly mixes outstanding heritage through the ages with modern shopping centres, excellent restaurants, hundreds of cafés and pubs, a superb arts and theatre scene with huge parks and green spaces, canoeing, rowing and sailing.
By train, Norwich to London takes 90 minutes and Cambridge less than an hour. There are also direct train links to the Midlands. Norwich International Airport has regular flights to Schiphol, Amsterdam and from there on to the rest of the world, plus daily internal flights to Scotland, Manchester, Exeter and Dublin.
Your application
Please ensure you include a statement in your application to demonstrate why you feel you meet the person specification and job description for this post. CVs submitted without a supporting statement about this post will not be accepted. You need to be registered with Social Work England as a practising social worker.
Please call Toni Scattergood (Team Manager) for an informal discussion on: 01603 729233 or email: toni.scattergood@norfolk.gov.uk or call Toby Thouless (Team Manager) on 01603 223668 for an informal discussion, or email: toby.thouless@norfolk.gov.uk.
These are some benefits you can enjoy by working for Norfolk County Council:
- Competitive salary
- Generous holiday entitlement with the ability to buy and sell leave
- Health and Wellbeing services including fast-track physiotherapy and a free counselling service
- Flexible working opportunities including flexi-time, part time, remote and hybrid working – dependant on your job role and business need.
- Financial benefits such as:
- ‘ Norfolk Rewards’ our employee discounts programme which helps you save money on almost anything, from everyday groceries and clothes, to holidays, new technology, gym membership, trips to the cinema and days out.
- A Blue Light card for Fire Service and Social Care Workers
- Relocation expenses paid upfront (where applicable)
- An advance of your expenses if you travel for work
- Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution, life assurance, death in service payments and dependants’ pensions.
- A payment if you refer someone you know to a hard to fill job.
- Tax efficient ways of getting extra pension, new bikes and electric cars.
Before you apply, we recommend reading the full Job Description and Person Specification to help you demonstrate you meet the criteria. You can also find information on our Terms and Conditions here.
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We welcome internal applications for this role but would like to make you aware that priority consideration for this post may be given to current employees who are affected by restructure within the organisation or are in a redeployment position.
Closing date: 10 April 2023 at 23:59