About the role
An exciting opportunity has arisen for two enthusiastic and committed social work practitioners, to join the Safeguarding Adults Team in North Northamptonshire Council.
The posts are grade 6 for Newly Qualified Social Workers moving to grade 7 on successful completion of the Assessed and Supported Year in Employment or Grade 7 for those who have completed their ASYE.
For NQSWs, we will support you through your first year of practice developing your experience, skills, and confidence as a practitioner, giving you a great start in your Social Work career.
You will be part of a team that triages safeguarding concerns which identifies the alleged source of risk as a provider or a paid professional within that setting, ensuring Making Safeguarding Personal and Safeguarding Principles are maintained and that the adult is central to all that you do.
Professional curiosity is key; the role requires you to undertake safeguarding enquires, whilst maintaining people’s choice and control, empowering adults within a risk enablement and strengths-based approach.
Please be aware that North Northants Council cannot employ people on a Sponsorship.
What will you be doing?
You will be working in line with key legislation such as the Care Act 2014 and frameworks such as NSAB Decision Making Framework Tool. You will be expected to work with internal and external partners in order to gather information and assess ongoing risk.
The role uses a person-centred approach which includes getting the voice of the person, listening and adopting professional curiosity to your practice.
The Safeguarding Provider Team receive referrals from the general public, other professionals, the individuals themselves and/or their representatives. The concerns we receive are solely when the source of risk has been identified as a service or organisation. This is initially screened by our duty workers (which you would be a part of) making initial enquiries in order to establish whether Section 42 enquiry is required or not. Completing Section's 42 and carrying out visits is also a task that you would undertake (under supervision).
About you
You should have knowledge of the Care Act, Mental Capacity Act, an understanding of the principles of safeguarding, the NSAB decision making framework, the policies and procedures of safeguarding and their application to practice: to keep people safe, support them to achieve their identified outcomes and to live free from abuse and neglect.
You can expect great management support and the opportunity to develop your career within a dynamic team that works closely together with key partners in health and other agencies to make a clear positive difference to some of our most vulnerable citizens.
Where you will be working
The team is based in Kettering, but the Council has a flexible working policy and supports hybrid and home working options. The ability to travel between sites across North Northamptonshire is essential to this post.
There is an expectation for you to be in the office at least once a week.
Our benefits
Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.
You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!
Why choose us?
We offer a vibrant working environment with:
- a competitive salary
- a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
- lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
- generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
- hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.
We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.
About us
Our Values and Behaviours
Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are:
Customer-focused
Respectful
Efficient
Supportive
Trustworthy
Our Key Commitments
Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.
We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.
North Northamptonshire Council re-signed the Armed Forces Covenant in June 2024 which highlights the Council’s pledge to support the Armed Forces community. The council obtained the silver status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) and we are now currently working towards achieving Gold status.
We aim to be a carbon neutral Council by 2030.
Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)
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