Social Workers & Senior Social Workers

Salary: £42,458 – £47,095 per year

About the role

We are looking for enthusiastic and dynamic qualified and registered social workers and senior social workers. For this role you will need to have completed your Assessed and Supported Year in Employment (ASYE). We recognise there will be exceptions to this so please speak to us if you are in any doubt.

Our job profiles will tell you what you’ll be doing, but more important to us, is how you’ll do it. We are looking for people who will thrive in the culture of our organisation.

Aspects of the role, we can train and guide you on, but what we are really looking for is someone with the right values and behaviours who can join our journey on improving the lives of vulnerable people in Surrey.

We are looking for social workers who believe it is important to ensure people have choice and control over their own support needs. We want people who are committed, like us, to focus on the person, their strengths and networks rather than routinely assessing people for services and eligibility. We want colleagues who will look first at what people can do rather than what they can’t do and have conversations, that identify what is important to the person, ‘what matters’ rather than ‘what’s the matter’. We believe that by exploring people’s goals and aspirations, and the strengths they have themselves or around them, we can help people to stay independent for longer and connected to their communities.

If you hold the same values and ethos as we do, please come and join up and help us continue to develop our strength based practice model.

From speaking to staff at workshops and engagement sessions, we learnt that career development is of huge importance to our current social workers. One step we have taken to help address is to develop a ‘Senior Readiness Program’. This program is designed to support social workers to develop their skills and experience so that they can progress to become a Senior Social Worker.

We also fully understand the challenges of day to day frontline social work, therefore we are putting tools in place to improve your work/life balance and to try and make day to day asks more manageable. We are currently rolling out hybrid devices which have a touch screen, detachable keyboard and will enable staff to access systems such as LAS when working with clients. The new devices will allow colleagues to change the way they work and to help avoid unnecessary travel.

The new hybrid devices will allow staff to change the way they work, allowing staff to be more agile and reduce the need to return to the office between visits etc.

Who we are looking for:

* Social Workers – salary range £42,458 – £47,095

* Senior Social Workers – salary range £42,458 – £47,095

We have roles based in community (locality teams) and hospital teams as well as specialist teams such as our Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH), Continuing Health Care (CHC) teams. Please ask us for further details.

We have locality (community) teams based in the following towns: Guildford, Godalming, Woking, Addlestone, Ashford, Epsom, Esher, Dorking, Reigate and Oxted and Camberley

We have hospital teams in: Guildford, Frimley, Chertsey, Epsom, and Redhill.