Social Workers - Ref: SS01325 at Economy Environment and Communities ! RS

Social Workers - Ref: SS01325
G9: £40,777 - £46,142 per annum

Due to successful internal progression opportunities, we currently have a number of permanent, full-time vacancies for experienced social workers across our Adult Social Care locality teams. 

We are looking for social workers who have completed the ASYE program. If you are an enthusiastic and dedicated professional, we would love for you to join our team to help shape and deliver our services, and deliver strengths based practice to achieve best outcomes for people.

The successful applicant will be skilled in carrying out strengths-based assessments and support planning under the Care Act 2014, completing comprehensive Risk Assessments, Mental Capacity Assessments and Best Interest Decision Making. You should have experience of working within a multi-disciplinary setting, to include health partners, voluntary and community organisations. 

Strengths Based Practice

Walsall is a great place to practice social work. We recognise the strengths of individuals and our communities, ensuring the person requiring support is at the centre of all decision-making, and through using a person-centred approach we can have the right conversation at the right time. Together we promote individuals’ aspirations, enhance independence and wellbeing and maximise autonomy. Strengths based practice is about connecting with people to find out what really matters. It supports people, carers, families and communities to find the solutions that are right for them, building on their strengths and what is working well already. 

Equality Statement

We want our employees to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve in Walsall. We are committed to promoting equality and anti-discriminatory practice.

We welcome applications from:

• people of all cultures, races, ethnicities and religions
• people of different genders, ages, and sexual orientation
• people with disabilities

Why Walsall?

There are lots of exciting ways to progress your social work career in Walsall. We want you to share your expertise and knowledge and make a difference for the people of Walsall. In return, we will offer you support, recognition and a commitment to help you learn and grow.

As you gain experience you'll be able to access specialist training, for example:

• access to learning and development opportunities to ensure your knowledge and skills are up to date
• access to post qualifying awards including Best Interest Assessor, Approved Mental Health Professional and Practice Educator
• access to professional forums to develop best practice

We also have a comprehensive career development offer. This includes:

• our core offer for all social workers, practice educators and team manager programmes

Additional benefits include:-

• Generous starting salary starting from £40,777 per annum 
• Payment of Social Work England Professional Fees
• 28 days paid annual holiday (pro-rata for part time staff) in addition to Bank Holidays. This goes up to 33 days when you have worked with us for 5 years
• Continuous service if you join us from another local authority 

Supervision

It is essential that as frontline practitioners in Adult Social Care you have time and space to reflect on and examine the work you do with adults, families and carers, to think through the work itself and your practice and the way this affects you. Our commitment to you is that all frontline practitioners will receive monthly supervision.

We seek to support staff to achieve a work-life balance. We know practice is fast-paced and challenging therefore we want to do everything we can to support you:-

• We have a flexi-time policy, which enables you to take back time accrued.
• We currently work a hybrid model with working from home and office time to enable you to work alongside your team

We are clear on our lone working policy to promote your safety and wellbeing.

If you would like to discuss further or for an informal chat please contact Lisa O'Callaghan, Team Manager on 07884 547675 or email [email protected]

Walsall Council takes seriously the responsibility to safeguard and promote the welfare of all the children, young people and vulnerable adults entrusted to our care and it is our expectation that all staff will share this commitment. We will ensure continuous development and improvement of robust recruitment processes and procedures that promote a culture of safeguarding amongst our workforce. Completion of an enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check is a requirement for this post.

This post is covered by the Government’s Code of Practice on the English Language Fluency Duty for public sector workers.  The postholder will be required to communicate verbally with customers and provide advice and/or information in accurate spoken English.

View Job Description and Employee Specification

Important note: When completing your online application form, you will be asked to enter supporting information. You must enter a detailed supporting information statement describing how your skills, abilities and experience meet the specific criteria included in the employee specification. If you do not include a supporting information statement, you will not be shortlisted. Please also ensure that you complete the work history and qualifications sections of your application form. Please do not add a CV as we do not accept them.  Please see our Information for Applicants leaflet for further information.

We kindly request that recruitment agencies do not contact us regarding this job vacancy. We are not accepting agency applications or referrals at this time.

Closing Date: Thursday 16^th October 2025.

Interview date: Week commencing 3^rd November 2025. 

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