AYSE Social Worker

Location: Craven House, Barrow-in-Furness

Contract Type: Permanent

About this opportunity

Would you like to work in a positive, close-knit and supportive environment, where you can make a real impact in people's lives on a day-to-day basis? Join our Urban team and be part of a passionate group of professionals dedicated to achieving meaningful outcomes for the people we support, across Furness.

We work with Older Adults and adults with physical disabilities aged 18+ offering you a rewarding role with real variety. You’ll contribute to both our Enhanced Duty Function and longer‑term casework, collaborating closely with colleagues across Occupational Therapy, Care Services, and Health to deliver the best possible support.

We offer a supportive 2‑week induction programme, allowing you to confidently integrate into our team, including an introduction to Adult Social Care in Westmorland and Furness Council with our Advanced Practice Lead Team, where you will get the opportunity to meet your colleagues from across the Service.

If you’re looking for a role where you can grow your skills, feel valued, and make a positive difference every day, we’d love to hear from you.

We apply a career grade system to our Social Worker roles once you have qualified and completed your ASYE. We then support staff to progress through the career grade in line with their development against the requirements at each step of the grade.

We encourage the right balance of skills and experience across our teams within Adult Social Care and would welcome applications for this role from both newly qualified candidates and those who are working towards their degree and due to graduate this summer.

For those candidates who are not yet qualified, any employment offer would initially be made as a Social Care Worker pending successful completion of the Social Work degree within a specified timescale.

Who we are looking for…

Adult Social Care vision is “People living in a place they call home with the people and things that they love, in communities where they look out for one another, doing the things that matter to them.” We are looking for the right people, with the right values and behaviours to join our teams across Adult Social Care. We’d like to hear more about you, your motivations, interests and values on your application, including what attracted you to this role and how you feel your values relate to the role.

What can we offer you!

• A supportive and friendly team environment
• Regular supervision and peer support
• Career progression through our Social Worker career grade
• Training and Development Opportunities including Practice Educator, Best Interest Assessor and Approved Mental Health Professional training.
• You can also take advantage of the Councils Vehicle Leasing Salary Sacrifice Scheme – designed to make motoring simple, affordable, and greener!

Working at Westmorland and Furness Council you will receive a variety of benefits, including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and other various perks and discounts schemes.

Would you like to find out more?

If you have any queries about this role or would like an informal chat about this opportunity, then please contact Rebecca Charlton, Furness Urban Team Manager at: rebecca.charlton@westmorlandandfurness.gov.uk

Application and Interview information

Closing date: 21st June 2026

Interview date: 8th July 2026

Safer Recruitment & DBS

At Westmorland and Furness Council we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the safety and welfare of children, young people and adults at risk and we expect all workers, employees and volunteers to share our commitment.

This role is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974 and requires an enhanced DBS check with a Adults Barred List check. Please note this role involves working in regulated activity with adults. It is an offence for people who are barred from working in regulated activity to apply for roles that require them to work unsupervised with adults.