Social Work Assistant

2 weeks ago


Mansfield, United Kingdom CISWO Full time

Job Title: Social Work Assistant

**Job Type**: Fixed term contract for 12 months

Hours: 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm

**Salary**: £27,107 per annum, pension, and other benefits

We are currently recruiting for a Social Work Assistant (fixed term for 12 months) in the Southern Region, based at our Mansfield Office. Homeworking is not available for this role.

This role will provide high quality, community-based advice and support for our clients, who are former miners and their dependants and who may be experiencing a broad range of issues such as ill health, disability, financial, social, or emotional. The service is normally predominantly delivered on an individual basis within the clients homes but may also include group work within community venues.

Responsibilities of the role include actioning referrals to the organisation, carrying out high quality assessments and providing a range of interventions in response to the assessed needs of the client including welfare benefits advice, advocacy, emotional support and practical advice.

You will need to be good at building relationships with others and will be liaising with a variety of external agencies/partners including promoting the service to other professionals and clients.

To be successful in this role, you will need to have experience of working in a social work/social care environment, knowledge of and experience of providing welfare benefits advice, experience of undertaking assessments, planning and providing interventions, experience of working with older people and/or those with disabilities, excellent communication skills, good IT skills and be proficient with Microsoft packages and used to working with databases.

You will need a driving licence and access to own transport, good organisational skills and a good standard of education. Knowledge and experience of former mining communities would be an advantage along with experience of working in the charity sector. A social work qualification is not essential but is desirable.

How to apply

Please note this role will require a satisfactory DBS check.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 12 months

**Salary**: £27,107.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- On-site parking

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Mansfield: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: In person



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