Adult Social Worker - Community East Team

Are you an experienced, enthusiastic, and registered Qualified Social Worker? An incredible opportunity awaits in our Adult Community Teams for both a full-time Social Worker with the Fenland Team and a 30-hour Social Worker with the East Team.

We are looking for committed professionals who thrive on making a difference. If you’re ready for a new challenge, possess the skills to complete Care Act Assessments, Mental Health Assessments, and Safeguarding Adult Enquiries, and are passionate about empowering the people of Cambridgeshire — we’d love to hear from you!

Join our established team of passionate, enthusiastic, and committed Social Work and Social Care Practitioners. The Fenland Team operates from Hereward Hall in March, while the East Cambridgeshire Team is based at the Princess of Wales Hospital in Ely, Cambridgeshire.

You will be responsible for a caseload and will need to be experienced in completing Safeguarding Adult Enquiries, assessments, and reviews in a timely manner with older people. Have experience of record keeping procedures, working as a member of a team and have very good organisational skills.

You will also be experienced in working to tight timescales and commissioning cost effective personalised support to meet the assessed needs of the service users as part of the reviewing process. Managing Safeguarding as part of Making Safeguarding Personal is part of the role and this can be offered as a development opportunity for the post holder.

You would be joining our established team of person centred, passionate, enthusiastic, and committed Social Work and Social Care Practitioners. You will be providing structured, positive supervision to social workers and CCO, providing support in complex case work.

You will be responsible for supporting the development of good, evidence-based practice particularly in the key areas of risk enablement, safeguarding, the Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act, Court of Protection work.

Ready to make an impact? Join our dedicated team of professionals in delivering exceptional care to the community!

What will you be doing?

• You’ll have the chance to collaborate closely with partner agencies, including health professionals, to support adults with care and support needs, as well as their carers.
• Together, you’ll provide Strengths-Based, evidence-informed assessments and interventions that promote meaningful reviews.
• Your work will empower service users to maintain independence, make informed choices, and retain control over their lives—whether they’re living within the community or in a care home setting.
• Additionally, you’ll have exciting opportunities to pursue qualifications, such as becoming a Practice Educator or a Best Interest Assessor, further enhancing your professional development.

About you

You’ll bring valuable experience working with individuals who have complex care and support needs, along with a solid understanding and practical knowledge of the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act, and other essential legislation. The post holders will be expected to be experienced in IT skills, Promote Independence, choice, and control of service users to enable them to continue to live within their homes whether this is in the community or a care home environment.

If you:

• Are passionate about Social Justice and NHS Continuing Healthcare
• Are a qualified Social Worker, registered with Social Work England
• Hold a full driver’s licence and have the ability to work from a variety of locations and travel countywide independently
• Are willing to learn and be flexible in your approach

This is the role for you!

For a full list of the requirements of the role, please check out the Job Description & Person Specification.

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage:

• A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
• 6 days of protected time each year to support in maintaining your Continuous Professional Development
• A relocation package of up to £8,000 (eligibility applies)
• A pay progression scheme to enable you to accelerate through the pay grade as you gain experience and skills
• A Refer a Friend Scheme where if you refer another Social Worker to us who is subsequently employed by us as a result of that introduction, we’ll pay you an introduction fee of £350
• Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth

About us

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes. Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager to discuss any adjustment needs.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.