Social Worker or Advanced Social Worker

Overview

As a Social Worker or Advanced Social Worker, your focus will be to deliver high-quality statutory reviews that improve outcomes, promote independence and enhance wellbeing for adults with care and support needs, using a strengths-based and person-centred approach.

Working collaboratively with partners, you will ensure individuals receive timely and appropriate support, enabling them to live as independently as possible.

With a strong emphasis on effective and lawful practice, you will ensure care and support remains appropriate and delivers best value, while supporting confident professional judgement and defensible decision making.

• What you will be doing
• Manage a caseload of adults with care and support needs, helping them and their carers to identify goals, build on strengths and develop practical solutions.
• Complete high-quality reviews, including needs assessments, care and support planning and safeguarding enquiries, ensuring plans remain strengths-based, proportionate, outcome focused and promote independence.
• Promote dignity, choice and wellbeing in all aspects of practice, using sound professional judgement to balance safety, independence and positive outcomes.
• Collaborate with a wide range of colleagues across different functions and partner organisations.
• Maintain accurate, timely and confidential records in line with professional and council standards.
• Advanced Social Worker – Additional Responsibilities
• Lead on more complex and high-risk cases, drawing on research and evidence-based practice and taking responsibility for key decisions.
• Act as a role model to support and develop best practice through advice, mentoring and shared learning.
• Contribute to workforce development, including supporting and supervising students on placement.
• Maintain up-to-date core training and actively engage in continuing professional development.
• What we need from you
• Hold a recognised professional qualification in social work and be registered with Social Work England.
• Significant experience in adult social care with a strong understanding of the Care Act 2014, the Mental Capacity Act, and safeguarding procedures.
• Experience with Continued Health Care (CHC), including completing CHC checklists.
• Advanced Social Worker – Additional Requirements
• Significant post-qualification experience, including working with individuals with complex needs.
• Evidence of advanced level practice with high-quality professional reasoning, sound judgement and leadership in complex situations.
• Lead role in supporting practice development and promoting high standards across the team.
• What you need to know
• To be considered for the Advanced Social Worker role, you must provide clear and detailed evidence within your application. Salary bands are dependent on experience:
• Advanced Social Worker: £40,777 - £44,075
• You will be expected to travel throughout the authority and surrounding area, so a full, valid driving licence with regular access to a vehicle or alternative means of travel is required.
• Business insurance will need to be added to your insurance policy.
• You can claim back mileage expenses.
• An enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check is required due to the nature of the role.
• This role is hybrid, with a mix of working at our office in Kingswood, from home and in the community.

Interviews will be held week commencing 10th August 2026.

• How a career at South Gloucestershire Council is different
• As part of our benefits package, you will receive generous annual leave (pro rata), employee wellbeing support and access to a range of staff discounts, including eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities.
• We recognise that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work.

We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on merit.

• If you want to develop a specialism, you’ll get the support you need and your cases will be aligned with your areas of expertise.
• Our team ethos is strong.

We are a relatively small local authority, so managers know staff well, plan services to ensure manageable caseloads and provide effective supervision so you feel supported to make right decisions for the people you work with.

• We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the safety and welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults, ensuring staff have the right skills and support to respond to potential abuse or neglect.

Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here.

• We’re building and shaping communities we are proud of.
• We’re working with the most vulnerable to help them achieve what they want in life.
• We’re investing in our schools to help every child and young person achieve their full potential.

We’ve achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to continue making a difference.

We’re making a difference, be part of it!

To view the full job description, please click this link: Social Worker Adult Social Care - Job Description; Advanced Social Worker Adult Social Care - Job Description

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