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As an Adult Social Worker, our Home First roles offer the ability to make a lasting impact and unmatched variety. We can provide you with challenging and highly rewarding career, where you'll have every opportunity to make a positive difference to people's lives in our community.

We offer hybrid and flexible working, supporting working from home. Part-time and job share arrangements may be considered based on the needs of the service. Please contact us to discuss if this is a possibility for any of these posts.

For an informal chat about any of these roles, or to explore any other roles in Social Work within Adult Care, please reach-out to us at (url removed)

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 foster a vibrant, happy, and high achieving workforce
We offer regular, reflective supervision that supports Continuous Professional Development
We are an organisation that is proud of its robust learning and development offer. 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 career development
We offer access to wellbeing support and other support services
We offer generous relocation and retention packages (please see below)
You will have access to the Local Government Pension scheme
We offer a minimum of 27 days holiday and the option to purchase more
We proudly offer hybrid and flexible working options, supporting a harmonious work-life balance

What You Can Expect To Be Doing

You will be undertaking strengths-based assessments, support planning and reviews to support customers to achieve their outcomes and promote their independence.

You will be working as part of a busy team and alongside other teams within the local authority.

Multi-disciplinary practice will be integral to the role.

About You

You will be a dynamic social worker with a strong value base and sense of person-centred practice. Our ethos revolves around bolstering support, fostering a culture of learning, nurturing development, and nurturing well-being throughout our entire workforce through a strengths-based approach.

You will demonstrate at least 2 years in field experience.

You will have excellent communication skills, enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, have a flexible approach and be able to work closely with a range of professionals.

You will be creative and passionate about enabling people to be as independent as possible.

You will need to be confident with the legal basis for practice and be able to demonstrate a good understanding of the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Mental Health Act 2007, Human Rights Act 1998 and Equality Act 2010.

You will embrace continuous professional development.

You will embody our behaviours responsibility, respect, recognition, and collaboration.

We invite you to demonstrate how you evidence these within your application.

Connect2Dorset is a trading style of Dorset & Kent Commercial Services LLP - A joint venture between Dorset Council & Commercial Services Kent Ltd. Connect2Dorset is an equal opportunities Employment Agency & Business. It positively encourages applications from all suitably qualified and eligible candidates