Adults Newly Qualified Social Workers - Huntingdon, United Kingdom - Cambridgeshire County Council

Cambridgeshire County Council

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Huntingdon, United Kingdom

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About the role
Social Work graduates, our Adult Social Care services want you

If you're looking for an innovative and supportive employer to start your social work career with, then Cambridgeshire County Council is the place to be.

We're recruiting now to the 2024 cohort of Newly Qualified Social Workers (NQSW) in their Assessed and Supported Year in Employment (ASYE) across Cambridgeshire's Adult's services.

What will you be doing?

As a NQSW in our teams, you'll use your skills, knowledge, and experience to manage a range of cases.

You'll work directly with adults, informal carers, and their families along with other stakeholders and partners.

Your caseload will be varied, allowing you the opportunity and experience to grow as a practitioner and develop your skills and confidence.

You'll co-work more complex caseloads alongside experienced Social Workers helping you make the right decisions when it matters most.

We believe that the ASYE programme is a crucial part of your professional development, that's why our NQSW's undertaking their ASYE are given a reduced workload to enable time for learning and development.

The comprehensive programme has been designed to enhance your skills, knowledge and capability and strengthen your professional confidence.

During the 12-month ASYE programme, you will receive regular, high quality, reflective supervision (weekly for the first 13 weeks; then fortnightly thereafter).

You'll be observed on multiple occasions which affords the opportunity to involve service users and/or carers in your assessment. You'll complete Critical Reflection Logs, which are fundamental in developing critical reflective practice. You'll also complete quarterly Professional Development Plans to support you through the programme.

You will take part in Action learning sets and have access to Portfolio Development and workshop sessions that will ensure you have all of the knowledge and training you need to complete your ASYE.

About you
We're committed to innovative ways of working and welcome like-minded people to join our dedicated and motivated workforce.

Our roles are based across Cambridgeshire. Flexibility will be needed as to where you are deployed, to give you the very best ASYE experience.

About us

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered.

We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.

Our benefits
We offer an excellent package of support for NQSWs, building a strong foundation to your professional social work career, including:

High quality, regular individual and group supervision
A structured training programme
Action learning sets to help you translate your knowledge and skills into live practice
Support from a dedicated ASYE coordinator during your first year in employment, alongside your manager and ASYE assessor
24 protected days for your ASYE programme
Plus, 6 days of protected time each year to enable our Social Workers to maintain their Continuous Professional Development.

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits: