Senior Social Worker - Long Term Care and Support

Medway Food Partnership; Chatham; Híbrido; GBP 40.000 - 55.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Generous annual leave

Training & development

CAREFIRST counselling

Employee discounts

Descripción de la vacante

Medway Council is seeking a Senior Social Worker to join the Long Term Care and Support team. The role delivers a strengths-based, personalised service, and leads on quality assurance while supporting a team handling complex cases.

Hybrid working from Compass Centre with some home working; salary £47,435 per annum. Closing date 01/11/2026. Professional social work qualification and registration are required, with a focus on safeguarding, training and mentoring.

Formación

• Professional social work qualification and registration
• Experience in adult social care with safeguarding
• Ability to supervise a team and manage complex cases

Responsabilidades

• Lead on quality assurance and audits across services
• Provide supervision and support to social care staff
• Ensure safeguarding and welfare of service users

Descripción del empleo

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Senior Social Worker - Long Term Care and Support

Job Reference ASC/26/064/LLS

Number of Positions:

1

Contract Type:

Permanent Full Time

Working Hours:

37

Location:

Gun Wharf / Compass Centre

Closing Date:

01/11/2026

Job Category:

Adult Services

Region / Division:

Medway

Business Unit:

People (Children's, Adults, Public Health, Education & SEND)

Job Introduction

Senior Social Worker - Long Term Care and Support (Ref: ASC/26/064/LLS)

Directorate: People (Childrens, Adults, Public Health, Education and SEND)

Salary: Range SW3 Level A £47,435 per annum

Location:Gun Wharf/Compass Centre

Working style:

Hybrid – Works part from Compass Centre and part from home.

Closing Date: 01/11/2026

As the Senior Social Worker, you will be required to contribute to the delivery of a highly effective Adult Social Care service in an efficient manner. You will ensure the service is delivered using a strengths based, personalised approach and lead on agreed areas of quality assurance and audit activity – ensuring that multiple and complex sources of information (e.g. complaints, safeguarding adult reviews, audits etc.) are gathered, analysed, and used to direct quality improvement activity. You will be responsible for the professional supervision and oversee a team of social care staff ensuring improvement activity with the service is driven by but not limited to training, coaching and mentoring, peer support workshops. You will provide oversight, professional advice and guidance to the team whilst maintaining your own complex case load. You will be required to work autonomously within the role, demonstrating expert and effective practice in complex situations managing higher levels of risk in a way that ensures the safeguarding and welfare of service users. You will work within organisational policy and legislative requirements including The Care Act, Mental Capacity Act and Mental Health Act. You will research and develop practice guidance, training materials and best practice toolkits in line with local and national policy and ensure that these are understood and adopted operationally.

You will be required to develop good practice guidance and tools within a specialist area of the service ensuring learning is shared across all professionals to improve practice and achieve better outcome for our service users. You will represent the local authority in a range of key meetings, panels and groups, ensuring follow up on agreed actions and work closely with colleagues within the council and external partners ensuring that person centred outcomes are met in ways which utilise available resources as effectively as possible.

The successful post holder will be subject to an Enhanced Adults’ DBS check.

In return we will offer you:

• Generous annual leave entitlement
• Access to wider training and development qualifications
• Access to CAREFIRST advice & counselling service
• Employee discount scheme for national and local retailers

Career Progression Frameworks (CPF) have been introduced for all roles at Medway Council. These frameworks provide a mechanism for employees to take ownership of their development within their post and be rewarded accordingly. This means that the salary you will be offered will be at level A unless, based on an assessment against the CPF criteria, you demonstrate that you are meeting the criteria of level B or C. There will be further opportunity once in post to progress from level A to B, and B to C.

When writing your application, it is important to ensure you identify your suitability against the requirements of the job profile, as this information will be used for shortlisting and may contribute to the CPF assessment. Your application may be rejected if the minimum required criteria is not met. Further information relating to the requirements for this role can be found in the CPF Guidance document attached.

The person specification of a job profile is split into three levels:

Level A details the essential criteria that all applicants must be able to demonstrate through their application and interview.

Level B details the developed competencies that an individual who is practised in this role would be able to demonstrate and will be a progression of knowledge, experience and skills from level A.

Level C requires the highest level of competence and applicants would need to fully meet and demonstrate all aspects of the job profile, including qualifications, knowledge, skills and experience.

Level A

Long Term Care and Support are seeking a Senior Social Worker to join the team at level A. This is the entry point of the role, so you will need to be able to demonstrate the relevant knowledge, experience and skills to get you started, but you will be supported to develop in your role through induction, probation and a supportive Performance Appraisal and Career Conversation. All elements of level A listed within the person specification are essential. Through your induction you will be introduced to the Career Progression Framework (CPF), which will help you to identify your areas of strength and any development needs.

• Applicants must be able to demonstrate all criteria which are essential for appointment to the role.
• For further information, and for details of the benefits of working for Medway Council, please refer to the Medway information pack available as a download or to view online.
• Please be advised that if you are not contacted within 3 weeks of the advert closing date then you have not been shortlisted. All recruitment correspondence, including interview letters and contracts of employment will usually be sent out via email.
• Please note, we prioritise applications from current Medway Council redeployees. We will let you know if this post is to be filled by a redeployee as, in this instance, your application will unfortunately not be taken forward.
• We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time prior to the closing date.

Please visit http://www.mindfulemployer.net/ for information on how Medway Council put good practices in place to ensure employees and job applicants who declare mental health issues receive the right level of support.