Social Care Practitioner

Job description

Are you interested in working in Sheffield? We are increasing our workforce to ensure that we provide a positive service to the people we work with. We are looking for Social Care Practitioner who are willing to innovate and create a real change to help us develop a first-class adult social care model.

We are currently undertaking a change process to ensure that our system is the best it can be, and we require talented individuals to help us on this journey. You will need to be a strong advocate of independence and reablement who puts the views and wishes of others at the heart of decision-making. You will have the drive to learn new skills, keep your knowledge up to date and share it with colleagues. We have various opportunities.

Sheffield’s Home First
- First Contact Team offers the city’s residents a comprehensive initial point of contact for all adult social care matters.

The team provides a wide variety of innovative support, which includes signposting to appropriate services, offering prevention services to bolster people’s independence, and developing person-centered social care assessments and support plans.

The team is focused on responding to individuals’ unique needs and building support around their own networks to ensure that strength-based outcomes are achieved.

The successful applicant will be expected to have a flexible approach and ability to manage their own workload, whilst working as part of a team.

The successful applicants should also possess a good level of IT skills, and knowledge of the Care Act 2014, The Mental Capacity Act 2005., Safeguarding. With Recent experience working in this field is required. Customer care and collaborative working are a key element in this role.

You will be supported with a positive induction and opportunities to develop in your role. We offer generous flexible working packages to ensure that you can work in a flexible environment and get the necessary time to enjoy your home life.

Sheffield is a great city, it is diverse with a wide range of cultural, social and outdoor activities, good schools and excellent transport links.

The Sheffield City Council is an excellent place to work and has much to offer in supporting their workforce
- Flexible working policies
- Support to parents and carers
- A Local Government Pension scheme
- Hybrid working
- A good level of holiday entitlement and much more

Our strong workforce development programme promotes continuous development for all staff, with a focus on improving practice and wellbeing outcomes for adults.

Our aim is to support and maintain a professionally qualified, highly skilled, diverse and dynamic workforce through the new Progression Framework and Delivering a programme of learning and development using a blended approach to promote excellent and creative professional practice.

If you enjoy supporting people to achieve their outcomes, and working as part of a dedicated team, this may be the role for you.

Further details about the responsibilities and requirements of the role are contained in the role summary and job profile.

**Shortlisting will take place commencing 26**th** May 2025 with face-to-face interviews taking place on the week commencing 17**th**June 2025**

We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups. We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.

Under the Disability Confident Scheme, disabled applicants, who meet the essential criteria of this job, are guaranteed an interview.

If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the bottom of the grade. If you provide payslip evidence that your basic pay is greater than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the point of minimum advantage within the grade.

Equality of pay is extremely important to us. All roles at Sheffield City Council are going through an evaluation process which may result in changes to some pay arrangements from 2026. Find out more on our Sheff news page

Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.

**Job details**:
Job reference

REQ003287

Date posted

30/04/2025

Application closing date

26/05/2025

Location

Sheffield

Salary

Grade 6 £32,115 to £36,124

Package

2 x permanent

Contractual hours

37

Job category/type

Adult Social Work