Social Workers (Adult Social Care) - Ref: SS00624

There are lots of exciting ways to progress your social work career in Walsall. We are looking for newly qualified and experienced social workers to join our adult social work teams. We want you to share your expertise and knowledge and make a difference for the people of Walsall. In return, we will offer you support, recognition and a commitment to help you learn and grow.

As a social worker, as you gain experience you'll be able to access specialist training, for example:

• access to learning and development opportunities to ensure your knowledge and skills are up to date


• access to post qualifying awards including Best Interest Assessor, Approved Mental Health Professional and Practice Educator


• access to professional forums to develop best practice


We also have a comprehensive career development offer. This includes:

• our core offer for all social workers, practice educators and team manager programmes
  
  This post is covered by the Government's Code of Practice on the English Language Fluency Duty for public sector workers. The postholder will be required to communicate verbally with customers and provide advice and/or information in accurate spoken English.
  
  Walsall is a great place to practice social work. We recognise the strengths of individuals and our communities, ensuring the person requiring support is at the centre of all decision-making, using a person centred approach we can have the right conversation at the right time. Together we promote individuals aspirations, enhance independence and wellbeing and maximise autonomy. Strengths based practice is about connecting with people to find out what really matters. It supports people, carers, families and communities to find the solutions that are right for them, building on their strengths and what is working well already.


Equality Statement

We want our employees to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve in Walsall. We are committed to promoting equality and anti-discriminatory practice., Here at Walsall, we want to attract the best talent. That's why - as well as a satisfying and rewarding job - we offer a range of attractive benefits. Working arrangements in most jobs are flexible (you may work flexitime, full or part time and job sharing is usually available) and you can expect generous holiday entitlements, a first class pension scheme and plenty of opportunities for training and personal development., Part of the Black Country, famous for its enterprising and industrial past, Walsall is reinventing itself to become a progressive modern community. The borough is centred around the major town of Walsall, but also includes five smaller and distinctive district centres (Bloxwich, Aldridge, Willenhall, Darlaston and Brownhills), together with numerous villages.

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• Generous starting salary for experienced social workers, the salary starts from £32,909 p/a for newly qualified social workers and £36,298 p/a for experienced social workers


• Payment of Social Work England Professional Fees


• 28 days paid annual holiday (pro-rata for part time staff) in addition to Bank Holidays. This goes up to 33 days when you have worked with us for 5 years


Supervision

It is essential that as frontline practitioners in Adult Social Care you have time and space to reflect on and examine the work you do with adults, families and carers, to think through the work itself and your practice and the way this affects you. Our commitment to you is that all frontline practitioners will receive monthly supervision.

We seek to support staff to achieve a work-life balance. We know practice is fast-paced and challenging therefore we want to do everything we can to support you:-

• We have a flexi-time policy, and encourage you to take back time accrued as TOIL.


• We encourage you to take your lunch break and protect the time in your diary


• We are committed to hybrid flexible working.


We are clear on our lone working policy and that it must be followed.