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Social Worker

Birmingham City Council • Full-time • Birmingham, ENG, GB • £32.08k - £39.19k / year • 8m ago

Social Worker

Permanent

Grade 4 - £32,076 - £39,186 Consultation grade - subject to formal evaluation under the Pay Equity Review

Working 36.5 hours per week

Golden Hello payment - £1,000 + £5,000 per annum; see below for further details and conditions.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Hospital Sector Discharge to Assess Teams based within various locations. Successful candidates will work across busy Multi-Disciplinary Teams to facilitate social work practices.

You will work as part of the Discharge to Assess Social Work Teams to deliver on person centred practices where citizens are enabled to exercise choice, control, independence, and build resilience with a focus on prevention and early intervention to support, guidance and sign posting in addition to assessments, via the 3 Conversations model, in accordance with the Care Act 2014.

You will have demonstrable social work experience, the ability to work positively as part of a Multi-Disciplinary Team, in partnership with other stakeholders, together with an interest in and skills to work within the specific Discharge to Assess Multi-Disciplinary Team.

Working within the legislative framework, you will carry out social work functions, utilising relevant legislation to complete conversations and provide support and guidance, drawing on sound inter-personal and communication skills. You will require the ability to produce reports and the resilience to deliver under pressure within required timeframes.

You should be eligible to be registered with Social Work England. We are also excited to extend this opportunity to Social Work Apprentices and Students who have confirmation of their qualification (although is awaiting actual certificate) after completion of their studies this coming year.

We’re committed to creating an environment that promotes equity, diversity and inclusivity, healthy lifestyle choices, wellbeing, and balance.

We’ll empower you to be the best you can be, with coaching, mentoring, and training programmes that meet your professional and personal development needs at every stage of your career with us.

We’re also proud to offer:

Family friendly policies
A range of benefits, including membership of the West Midlands Pension Fund, discounted gym membership and a confidential Employee Assistance Programme.
29 days’ annual leave, increasing with length of service, plus the option to purchase additional days (subject to terms and conditions).
Reimbursement of professional fees (subject to terms and conditions).
The Assessed and Supported Year in Employment (ASYE) for newly qualified Social Workers
Golden Hello payment - £1,000 (upon external appointment).
Recruitment & Retention Payment - £5,000 per annum (paid monthly over a 12-month period, pro rota for part time staff).

When completing your application form please make sure you address each point in the person specification in your application.

For informal enquiries, you may contact the following team members supporting with this recruitment:

Alaya Khatun, telephone: 07840 712 875
Bornwell Asidi, telephone: 07703 373 639
Odette Dennisur-Smith, telephone: 07825 318 297

You must upload a Supporting Statement via the attachments part of your application. This is required for shortlisting; you need to describe how your experience and skills fit the essential criteria for the role as specified in the Person Specification.

Birmingham City Council is an accredited Disability Confident Leader employer, and we are committed to employing, retaining and developing all of our people.

We want to ensure your recruitment journey with us is a positive and equitable one, so please let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments, additional support, accessibility needs, or if there is any way in which we can support you through your application.

We welcome applications from people with caring responsibilities and flexible working options will be considered.

A Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check will be undertaken.

An ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence using the English language as required by Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016.

Ref: BCC1950

Closing date: 3rd November 2024 at 23:59.

Interviews for this post will take place face to face. Shortlisted candidates will be provided with further information.

Proof of Right to work in the UK will be required for all applicants in accordance with UK Home Office requirements , before any employment offer can be confirmed.

Non-UK applicants (excluding Ireland) would be required to hold a relevant Visa from the UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI).

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