Social Worker (Specialist Community Disability Service – Children and Adults)

Job Description

Job title: Social Worker (Specialist Community Disability Service – Children and Adults)

Company: Brighton & Hove City Council

Job description: Job introduction

We are currently looking to recruit three Social Workers within the Specialist Community Disability Service – a service which provides a whole life pathway disability service.

Brighton & Hove has an innovative service for children and adults with learning disabilities based on a strong, sustainable and ambitious whole life pathway disability service. This new service is called the Specialist Community Disability Service (SCDS).

We have two pods which support children and young adults from the ages of 0-13 and 14-24 respectively. These pods are part of our Families, Children and Learning Directorate and our model of relationship-based social work, the Team Around the Relationship. You can hear more from our practitioners about the difference our model makes: –

We have an opportunity for two Social Worker within the 14-24 pod. We are seeking a candidate with experience primarily in adult’s social work. This role will also have an opportunity to work with those children and young people who are transitioning from children to adult services.

We also have an opportunity for a Social Worker within the 0 – 13 Pod. We are seeking a candidate who is an experienced social worker within Children’s Services.

About the role

We are a team which provides a challenging and exciting range of social work services to children, young people and adults with disabilities. This includes the areas of duty and intake and undertaking care planning within a multi-disciplinary context through both children and adults legislative frameworks. The successful candidate would have a broad understanding of these issues and co-ordinate proportionate and timely assessments to meet identified outcomes for young people and adults with a learning disability at the first point of contact.

We are proud of the feedback from our social workers and from Ofsted: “Social workers’ morale is high and they enjoy working in Brighton & Hove.”

As well as a competitive salary, we offer a relocation package of up to £10,000 and a range of other benefits including a rental deposit loan scheme:

We know that you and our existing social workers are our greatest asset and we strive to give you the time and active support you need so that you can make a real difference to children’s lives and realise our .

Our pod model is based on providing emotional containment for you. This includes a supervision model of weekly group supervision, 1:1 supervision, and Reflective Practice Groups for practitioners and managers at every level, as well as a clear CPD pathway. We have a low workload approach where, like most of our social workers, we aim to make sure that you work with less than 18 children (around 8 families).

We have set up an anti-racist project as we recognised that we need to do further work to support Black and global majority families in the city and to support our staff from Black and global majority communities.

For these posts, you must hold a Professional Social Work Qualification and be registered as a social worker with Social Work England.

As part of your application, you will need to complete your education and work history and provide answers to some shortlisting questions. Your answers to the shortlisting questions are the most important part of your application as they will be used in the shortlisting process to assess whether you meet the essential requirements for the role that are set out in the person specification and to decide whether you should be offered an interview. Before you start your application, please read our guidance here ( as this gives important advice which will increase your chance of success in the shortlisting process.

Additional information

Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.

Part office / part home – hybrid – We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining.

Working arrangements are subject to Government guidance at the time. Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team and travel to and from your contractual location would be at your own expense.

For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit

Company information

Encouraging a diverse workforce

Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it’s what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.

Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our actions, our and the work we are doing to .

Please note that this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, and is subject to a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Check.

Expected salary:

Location: Brighton – Hove, East Sussex

Job date: Sun, 14 Jan 2024 02:13:01 GMT

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