Senior Social Worker

Gloucestershire County Council; Swindon; Hybrid; GBP 43,000 - 49,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation allowance up to £8,000

25.5 days annual leave (pro rata)

Local Government Pension Scheme

Staff parking

Training & development opportunities

Career progression pathways

Cycle to Work scheme

Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

Job summary

Gloucestershire County Council is seeking a part-time Senior Social Worker for Cirencester. The role focuses on expert social work practice in complex cases, balancing risk assessment with supportive independence. You’ll collaborate with a range of professionals and senior managers.

Based in Cirencester with flexible working (office and home), the role supports progression within a welcoming local council team and offers relocation assistance up to £8,000 and a generous leave entitlement.

Qualifications

• Social work qualification and SWE registration.
• Completed ASYE programme and at least 2 years post-qualification service.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage risk.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert social work practice in complex situations.
• Assess and manage higher levels of risk.
• Collaborate with professionals and senior managers to balance support and independence.

Skills

Social work qualification

SWE registration

ASYE completed

2+ years post-qualification experience

Ability to manage risk

Crucial communication skills

Job description

This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.

• Job Title: Senior Social Worker
• Job Location: Cirencester
• Salary: £43,149 - £48,738 per annum pro rata + relocation allowance up to £8,000*

*T&Cs apply.

If you’re Skilled Worker already living and working in the UK, with a minimum of 1 years’ experience working in an Adults Social Worker role, currently registered with SWE and looking to move Certificate of Sponsorship and relocate to Gloucestershire, then read on!

About the role:

We have a part-time Senior Social Worker position available in our Cotswolds Locality Team. The Senior Social Worker role could be the perfect next step of your career; with this role offering you more challenge and complexity, without the added management responsibility. We look to our Senior Social Workers to provide expert social work practice in complex situations, assessing and managing higher levels of risk. You will work closely with a range of professionals and more senior managers to ensure a balance of support and independence is achieved, through offering expert evidence-based opinion.

The post is based in Cirencester and we offer flexible working with a mix of office and home working. To find out more about working in the Cotswolds Team, visit the ‘Meet our Teams’ page.

About us: Why Gloucestershire?

Enchanting Cotswold villages, picturesque countryside backdrops, and a never-ending selection of exciting days out, attractions and events; Gloucestershire really does have something for everyone. Gloucestershire is the perfect place to live and work with a great mix of rural and city locations. Find out more about living and working in Gloucestershire.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join Gloucestershire County Council. You can be confident of becoming part of a welcoming, passionate, innovative, and highly supportive team.

About you:

As a Senior Social Worker, we understand the work you do on a daily basis and provide the support you need to make a difference to the people of Gloucestershire.

• Have a social work qualification and be SWE registered
• Have completed your ASYE programme and have at least 2 years post completion service
• Enjoy working in a fast-paced environment
• Have the passion to promote people’s strengths and the ability to make a difference in a safe working approach to social work practice
• Have up to date knowledge of legislation and demonstrable experience of providing credible approaches to practice
• Be able to prioritise, using a risk-based approach

Our values are at the heart of everything we do and how we treat each other. They provide essential guiding principles about the way that we work and set the tone for our culture, and identify what we, as an organisation, care about. Read more about our values on our website.

If you hold the same behaviours and approach, then we want to hear from you! In exchange, we will provide you with full training and support to help yousucceed in your role.

Our offer:

In addition to a competitiveremunerationpackage,we offera range of benefits,in return for your hard work:

• Regular formal and informal support
• Subject to meeting qualifying conditions, we offer relocation of up to £8,000 (T&Cs apply) to use towards the cost of relocating to Gloucestershire
• Safe,supportiveand positive working environment with regular, robust supervision
• 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years’ service, plus bank holidays(pro rata)
• Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme
• Free staff parking
• Access to training and workshops so you can develop your skills
• Clear career progression pathways, to support you in progressing professionally and personally
• Staff discount scheme that offers access to great savings including discounts with major supermarket chains and high street retailers
• Personal licences to Adults CCINFORM
• Reimbursement of professional Social Work registration fees
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone.
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) network and the Young Employees Network.
• Gloucestershire Salary Sacrifice Green Car Scheme (T&C's apply)

This Position is subject to an Enhanced DBS with Barred List check.

Due to the number of applications we received, we are unable to provide feedback at shortlisting stage.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early due to the volume of applications received.

Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.

Applications from any Gloucestershire County Council's employees who are currently on the redeployment register or at risk of redundancy will be considered first at shortlisting stage.

The council will consider sponsorship for the Social Worker role, in line with Home Office regulations and subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks.

Gloucestershire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a ‘customer facing role’ must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.

We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire’s diverse communities. Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential.

If you are an Internal applicant and consider yourself to have a disability* as per the Equality Act (2010), please declare this in an email to [e-mail] , as this is NOT currently covered in the application due to a technical error.

By providing this information, you can choose to be considered for a guaranteed interview under our Disability Confident pledge if you meet all essential criteria. It also enables the recruiting manager to arrange any reasonable adjustments you may need during the process.

*a disability is defined as: a physical or mental impairment, which has asubstantialand long-term (more than 12 months) adverse effect on a person’s ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities.