Experienced Social Worker in Home First

Experienced Social Worker Position within our Home First Team.

Part time - 30 hours a week

Salary: £36,648 to £43,421 (pro-rata)

Generous Relocation and Retention packages available for eligible candidates.

We offer hybrid and flexible working.

Location:

We are currently looking to recruit a dynamic and experienced social worker to our Home First Team located in East Dorset.  The East team are based out of Royal Bournemouth and Poole Hospitals.  

Home first is a new partnership approach to provide more community-based care in Dorset and reduce unnecessary hospital stays. We promote a discharge to assess model of working with adults who have been discharged from hospital either to their own home or to an assessment bed, working collaboratively with and alongside our health colleagues and other partners to achieve this.

We work with adults and their families/carers who have more complex needs within hospital settings to support and facilitate discharge.

We are a supportive and nurturing service with strong leadership who are focused and available and have a clear vision to embed quality of practice across the County.

We offer hybrid and flexible working, supporting working from home. 

For an informal chat about or to find out more about working within our Home First Team please contact [email protected] and we will get straight back in touch.

What’s in it for you:

• We are an organisation with a strong commitment to a strengths-based approach in our relationships with customers and employees alike. 
• We offer regular, reflective supervision that supports Continuous Professional Development.
• We are an organisation that is proud of its robust learning and development offer to develop your practice in a culture of trust and respect. This includes mentoring and coaching, various external training including BIA, AMHP, access to RIPFA courses, Community Care Inform and internal training to support development in specific areas of practice.
• We promote and encourage career development.
• We offer access to wellbeing support and other support services.
• You will have access to the Local Government Pension scheme.
• We offer a minimum of 27 days holiday and the option to purchase more, rising to 32 days after 5 years of continuous service.
• We proudly offer hybrid and flexible working options, supporting a harmonious work-life balance.

Interviews: Interviews will be conducted via Microsoft Teams  

We’re passionate about making Dorset a great place to live, work and visit. Working for us should be no exception.

At Dorset Council we:

• provide more than 450 services to over 300,000 residents
• have ambitious aspirations
• are excited about our future
• care about Dorset and all the people who live here
• know that all roles make a difference and that our employees are key to our success

You will:

• have access to a range of employee benefits
• be part of an organisation that supports each other to grow and succeed
• have access to range of training opportunities which will help with your personal development and career progression

We are challenging ourselves to become a more diverse and inclusive organisation. We recognise that recruitment and inclusion of individuals with diverse skills, perspectives and backgrounds will bring real strength to the council and our communities. We have a commitment to equality and welcome applications from everyone.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We offer an interview to everyone who declares a disability and meets the essential criteria for the role.

We are keen to make our interviews accessible. Let us know on your job application if you have a disability and need any reasonable adjustments.

We also look for applicants who share our commitment to our behaviours. We will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.

We are keen to make our interviews accessible. Let us know on your job application if you have a disability and need any reasonable adjustments. 

This role is UK based and we will need to establish your Right to Work as part of the appointment process. 

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