Social Worker: Empower Independence & Wellbeing

Blackpool Council; Lancashire; On-site; GBP 39,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive rewards & benefits package

Structured supervision

Supportive team in a historic town

Job summary

Blackpool Council is seeking social workers to support people to live well and safely in the community. The role emphasizes building trusted relationships, person-centred decision making, and facilitating independence. You will work in a small, well-supported team and contribute to a culture that respects people’s strengths and rights.

The post is a permanent, full-time position with a 37-hour week. DBS, references, and Right to Work checks apply. Closing date is 30 September 2026.

Qualifications

• Listen and recognise that people are experts in their own lives
• Respect the dignity and diversity of the people you’re working with
• Understand and respond to people’s unique needs and aspirations
• Communicate respectfully with and about people
• Be curious
• Be useful
• Be kind
• Be brave
• Uphold human rights and social justice
• Question the status quo
• Do no harm
• Critically reflect and keep learning

Responsibilities

• Building trusted relationships with people
• Having conversations with people based on what matters most to them
• Understanding what is making a person less safe and why
• Making sure people’s wishes, feelings and beliefs are central to decision making
• Supporting people to live as independently as possible, connecting to wider networks of opportunity and support
• Increasing people’s hope, self-esteem and creative potential
• Responding quickly in a crisis and sticking with people until things are better
• Being involved in people’s lives in the least intrusive way
• Respecting people's decisions and ensuring decisions they can’t make themselves are in their best interests
• Making plans with people to help them be as safe as they can be
• Keeping in touch with people to check how they are and if anything needs to change
• Listen and recognise that people are experts in their own lives
• Respect the dignity and diversity of the people you’re working with
• Understand and respond to people’s unique needs and aspirations
• Communicate respectfully with and about people
• Be curious
• Be useful
• Be kind
• Be brave
• Upkeep human rights and social justice
• Question the status quo
• Do no harm

Skills

Listening

Respect for dignity & diversity

Communication

Curiosity

Be kind

Job description

Blackpool Council is seeking social workers to support people to live well and safely in the community. The role emphasizes building trusted relationships, person-centred decision making, and facilitating independence. You will work in a small, well-supported team and contribute to a culture that respects people’s strengths and rights.

The post is a permanent, full-time position with a 37-hour week. DBS, references, and Right to Work checks apply. Closing date is 30 September 2026.