Social Worker

Nottinghamshire; East Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 33,000 - 43,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Nottinghamshire County Council as a Social Worker to enhance community mental health services. You will provide person-centered support, build relationships, and drive changes that empower individuals with learning disabilities and autism. This role offers a competitive salary and opportunities for professional growth in a hybrid working environment.

Qualifications

• Dynamic staff with expertise in Mental Health, Learning Disability, and Autism.
• Ability to recognize individuals as experts in their lives.
• Critical reflection and continuous learning.

Responsibilities

• Build trusted relationships and provide person-centered support.
• Facilitate hospital discharge and enhance independent living.
• Collaborate with partner organizations to improve local services.

Skills

Mental Health

Learning Disability

Autism

Forensic Social Work

Job description

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Salary

£33,366 - £42,708 per annum

Type of vacancy

Permanent

Work pattern

Full Time

Hours per week

37

Work Base

Countywide

Working Arrangements

Hybrid

Job Description / Person Specification

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Competency Framework

Tier 7b

Number of posts

2

Interview date

To be confirmed

Closing Date

30 June 2025 23:55

Nottinghamshire County Council is developing an improve all-age Mental Health offer, alongside its existing work for people with Learning Disability and Autism which will involve strengthened multi-disciplinary working with a variety of partners. This will promote best practice, manage demand and respond to legislative change, with a focus on reablement. We want the people we serve to live good, ordinary lives in the place they call home with the people and things that they love, in communities where they look out for one another, doing what matters to them. If people need some support, we start by understanding what a good life looks like for them, and how we can we work together to achieve it.

Skills

We are looking for dynamic staff with relevant knowledge, skills and expertise in Mental Health, Learning Disability, Autism and Forensic Social Work, to facilitate hospital discharge. You’ll be responsible for:

• building trusted relationships
• having conversations with people based on what matters most to them
• making sure people’s wishes, feelings and beliefs are central to decision making
• supporting people to live as independently as possible, for as long as possible
• connecting people to wider networks of opportunity and support
• increasing people’s hope, self-esteem and creative potential.
  
  

The role will ensure the delivery of high-quality, person-centred support whilst playing a pivotal role, working with partner organisations, to shape and improve Mental Health, Learning Disability and Autism services for local people.

Essential Requirements Include

• recognising that people are the experts in their lives
• communicating respectfully with and about people
• thinking and acting creatively
• challenging circumstances and environments that marginalise, exclude or oppress
• critical reflection and a desire to keep learning
  
  

This is an exciting time for Adult Social Care as we implement new operational arrangements, ensuring that our services are fit for the future, with a focus on equity and individual outcomes to develop independence, alongside place based and partnership working with both internal and external partners.

You will also contribute to the transformation of wider Adult Social Care services in line with the Council’s strategic priorities and embed our Owning and Driving Performance Programme.

For further information about these posts, you can contact the team Managers.

Claire Clarke [e-mail] or 01158546072

Amanda Peto [e-mail] or 01158041977

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Appointment to this post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service check.

Disabled applicants who meet the essential shortlisting requirements will be guaranteed an interview. A job share scheme is available for all full-time posts: both permanent and temporary, unless otherwise stated. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff to share this commitment and undergo appropriate checks.

Nottinghamshire County Council strives to ensure that it goes beyond the requirements of the Equalities Act and prides itself on being accredited as a Disability Confident Leader Organisation.

Therefore, the County Council encourages applications from all, irrespective of gender, marital status, disability, race, religion, belief, pregnancy and maternity status, age or sexual orientation.

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