Social Worker

Application closing date

14/12/2025

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Salary

Grade J (Newly Qualified) £32,621 - £36,072 a year actual salary (£40,777 - £45,091 a year full time equivalent). Grade K £36,913 - £39,425 a year actual salary (£46,142 - £49,282 a year full time equivalent)

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Job category/type

Social Care - Adults

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Job description

Role: Social Worker – Adult Social Care

Salary: Grade J (Newly Qualified) £32,621 - £36,072 a year actual salary (£40,777 - £45,091 a year full time equivalent). Grade K £36,913 - £39,425 a year actual salary (£46,142 - £49,282 a year full time equivalent)

Location: Council House

Hours: 29.6 hours a week (4 days)

Closing Date: Sunday 15 December 2025

Contract Type: Permanent

Derby City Council is an innovative and forward thinking Council, committed to developing more practical and proportionate ways of undertaking adult social care assessments, support planning and interventions to enable the residents of Derby to live full and active lives.

An exciting opportunity has arisen enabling the recruitment of a part time Social Worker to join our Adult Social Care team. The worker will carry out social care assessments and support customers to create individualised support plans to meet their identified needs. The successful candidate will be working with a wide range of customers aged 18 and over including individuals with Learning Disabilities, Physical Disabilities, Mental Health needs and Older People.

You will be a qualified Social Worker with an active registration with Social Work England, applications without this will be discounted. You will need to have excellent communication and listening skills, with the confidence and ability to negotiate and challenge appropriately. You will need to have a detailed understanding of the Care Act and be able to implement an asset based approach to your work. You will be able to work and manage a case load independently and also work as part of a team.

Who We Are

Here at Derby City Council, we're dedicated to delivering nearly 250 first-class services to citizens and businesses in the heart of the Midlands. People are at the centre of all that we do, and we have an outstanding track record of recruiting and developing talented individuals by providing them with varied and fulfilling career opportunities. Find out more about what it's like to work for us.

What We Offer

You too could be part of something brilliant by becoming a colleague at Derby City Council; in addition to making a difference to the lives of people across the city, you'll also receive:

• Modern office environment
• Continued professional development opportunities & career conversations
• 27 days annual leave (rising to 32 days after 5 years' service), plus bank holidays
• Local Government Pension Scheme
• Team Derby Rewards – retail and leisure discounts
• Tusker Car Benefit Scheme
• Cycle2Work Scheme & free cycle training
• Employee Assistance Programme, Wellbeing Calendar and Support
• Access to our Equality Employee Networks – LGBTQ+, Disabled Employee Network & Carers and our Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic Employee Support Network and Neurodiversity Network
• Support for colleagues who are carers

Next Steps

If you would like to apply for this vacancy via an application form, please submit an application via the Derby City Council website.

The closing date for this vacancy is at midnight on Sunday 14 December 2025. Any applications received after the closing date will not be accepted.

Interviews will be held: week commencing 5 January 2026

If you would prefer to apply for this job using your CV, then please download the attached Declaration Form and send it to Without a completed declaration form, your application will not be accepted. We also encourage you to download the Equalities Form and return this to , however this is optional and will not affect your application.

Important Information

Links to the full Job Description and Person Specification are below.

As part of our safer recruitment checks the successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.

All employees will normally be appointed to the minimum of the grade for the job.

Before you complete your application form please read our guidance on filling in your application form.

Remember to align your personal statement to the essential criteria in the Person Specification.

Please be aware that where there are colleagues within the organisation who are 'at risk' of redundancy, requirements to redeploy to another suitable role will apply and take priority.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

We are a fair and inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds. We recruit for diversity and value difference. As many of our roles can now be home-based, we are able to offer more opportunities for people who need this facility.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you are a disabled person, you have the choice to apply under our Guaranteed Interview Scheme so long as you demonstrate that you meet the essential requirements for the job.

We feel it is essential that we recruit a talented workforce that is as diverse as the community we work for.

Please let us know of any individual requirements or reasonable adjustments you may have during the application, interview, or onboarding process and we'll do all we can to help. We strongly believe in social understanding of disability and for us it's all about removing barriers to equality.

If you have any questions regarding this vacancy or are having difficulty applying, please contact our Recruitment Team on Relay UK or