About the role
The Care Home Review Team is looking for a dynamic Principal Social Worker to help lead our vibrant and supportive team.
The role of the team is to provide adult social care assessment and support services to people who are living in a Residential or Nursing Home. Our team is made up of social workers, senior assessment and enablement workers, and assessment and enablement workers.
What will you be doing?
Managing the duty rota, screening safeguarding referrals, and supporting duty staff.
Overseeing referral allocations, prioritising risk and ensuring timely responses.
Providing frontline supervision to assessment staff, including induction, performance management, and case discussions.
Making key decisions around Care Act eligibility and support planning.
Auditing casework to maintain high standards and support continuous improvement.
About you
You’ll be a vital part of our leadership team, contributing to the wellbeing of staff and the overall performance of the service. You’ll be line managed by our experienced Team Manager and work alongside a well-established management group.
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.
Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)
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