Permanent
Full Time or Part Time Opportunity Available
If you want to join a team which is innovative, supportive, promotes the development of your skills and gives you the opportunity to experience various roles across Adult Health and Social Care, then the Peripatetic Team is for you.
What is the Peripatetic Team?
We provide County Wide support for a variety of service needs, for example, increase in workloads and vacancies within teams. The rotations you undertake will usually be for 3 months, but this can vary.
Where possible, we aim to plan your rotations around the locality of where you live. Depending on the location of your rotations, travel expenses and time could be claimed in line with our Devon County Council policy.
The entire team practice in a Peripatetic capacity, including two Team Managers, Social Workers, Occupational Therapists, Social Care Assessor’s, and newly qualified staff.
About You
You will need to be a confident, flexible Social Worker who embraces change and who is willing to undertake rotations in various teams across Devon (community, hospital, or specialist team).
You will have the opportunity to develop your skills in areas such as placement supervisor roles, supporting newly qualified workers, peer supervision and you be part of influencing the service development within the team.
The work will vary depending on the need, you will be assessing the needs of adults with a wide range of disabilities and health conditions.
As a Social Worker you will be responsible for producing outcome focused care plans for a range of complex cases within the context of managing risk, as well as providing professional advice, mentoring, and supporting others.
You will carry out Safeguarding Enquiries where adults are at risk of abuse or neglect and with good assessment skills, undertake Mental Capacity Assessments and make best interest decisions to ensure that people are living as independently as possible.
Employing a strengths-based approach, you will be creative in your thinking and personal centred.
What we can offer you
The Peripatetic team will offer you the ability to work flexibly, these include part-time hours, flexitime, compressed working hours and homeworking using the Hybrid model, which helps to achieve a positive work life balance.
Additionally, we provide 1-1 supervision, peer supervision and weekly team catch ups. You will have the opportunity to network across the teams, gain experience of various roles which will ensure continued development within your career.
For an informal discussion, please contact Katrina Dwyer at katrina.dwyer@devon.gov.uk or 07971 323889 or Deb Beckerleg at deb.beckerleg@devon.gov.uk or 07854 193367
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Experienced Social Worker Job Description (Grade G)
Please note Devon County Council is not currently offering VISA sponsorship for this role. We will only consider applicants with valid Right to Work in the UK.