Adult Social Workers

Job Title: Adult Social Workers
Location: Countywide
Starting Salary: £33,820 with the opportunity to progress to a maximum of £37,261 per annum plus relocation package, £1,000 welcome payment & lease car* terms apply
Hours: Part time and 37 hours per week
Contract: Permanent and fixed term contracts available

Diversity: We are an inclusive employer and value a diverse workforce

Are you looking for an exciting new challenge? We are looking for SWE registered Social Workers to join one of our teams. Come and join us

If you have recently completed the Social Work degree, you will enrolled onto our ASYE programme with all the benefits and support for a newly Qualified Social Worker.

Vacancies:
Older People Team East and North Hertfordshire - Stevenage
- Welwyn & Hatfield / North Herts / East Herts

Our locality teams are diverse teams made up of Social Workers, Occupational Therapists and Community Care Officers. These teams focus on extended involvement of complex cases and includes general assessment and care planning as well working with our Safeguardingteam to ensure risks to vulnerable people are minimised.
- Residential review Team

Provides support to adults with a diagnosis of dementia and older adults by reviewing those in a residential or nursing home setting. This can include systematic reviews, as well as reviews due to a change in circumstance or a safeguarding concern. The teamworks closely with our commissioners to complete targeted reviews when we have potential concerns with care providers.
- Community Review Team

The team work closely with the Locality teams and Post Hospital Review Teams to identify individuals who would benefit from their intervention to regain independence. The team work closely with Enablement Occupational Therapists to provide a holistic assessment.

Older People Team West - Hemel Hempstead
- Three Rivers

This is a multidisciplinary team of Social Workers, Occupational Therapists and Community Care Officers, in Herts Valleys. We work with citizens and their carers’ in assessing their needs and undertaking care planning. We believe in putting the person atthe centre of all our work and supporting them in their decisions making.
- Watford

Supporting citizens over 65 years who live in a vibrant, multi-cultural town. The aim of this role to promote independence by assessing older people to identify their desired outcomes to maximise independent living whenever possible. You will undertake assessmentsof need to determine eligibility and implement care and support plans with clear outcomes to achieve or maintain well-being.
- Hertsmere

Your role will primarily be to carryout comprehensive assessments to enable support and assist those in need of social care support to achieve their identified outcomes. You will promote independence and enablement for elderly people who are struggling tomanage activities of daily living in their homes or in placement. Hertsmere Older person Team covers Potters Bar, Borehamwood, Elstree, Bushey, Radlett and Shenley.
- Dacorum

Completing Connected Lives carer’s assessments and engaging with, assisting, and providing advice to carers to enable them to sustain their caring role. Promoting independence and community wellbeing for older residents and their carers building on our alreadystrong working relationships with Dacorum District Council, CLCH, HPfT, Age UK and other community groups. Taking the lead investigation officer role for safeguarding and assessing and positively managing risk ensuring people are protected from harm. Provingcase management support when a person’s health or capacity is deteriorating or likely to deteriorate without intervention to avoid hospital admission or premature placement.

Adult Disability Team West - Hemel Hempstead
- Dacorum / Review Team

Our focus is to ensure we enable people to make positive decisions in their lives, promoting their independence and that they can take part in their local community. We are a service motivated by and dedicated to social care intervention and community socialwork. Our core aim is to support people to be influential and active members of their community and promote true citizenship through our bespoke Connected Lives model of social care. We need social workers that can engage with people, promoting and enablinginclusive community options as well as self-directed purchased services.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Benefits of Working for HCC:

- Flexible Working Arrangements (depending on the role)
- Excellent Career Development
- Salary Exchange for Additional Benefits
- Excellent Pension Scheme with Employer Contributions
- Shopping Discounts
- Support Groups & Wellbeing Schemes

Safeguarding: Safeguarding children and adults is of utmost importance to Hertfordshire County Council. The Council requires employees to abide by legislation and best practice to enable Hertfordshire to achieve this. This role has been identified as requiringa Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check.