Adult Social Workers - Transition Team

Job Description

The starting salary for this role is £41,127 per annum,based on a 36working hour week.The Transition Team, based in Woking or Redhill, is a dynamic and vibrant countywide service for young people aged between 14 and 25. Although we sit in Adult Social Care, our journey with the people we support starts much earlier at academic year 9. WithinSCC, the Transition Team sits in a unique and favourable position of being able to undertake frontline work across both Children and Adult Services.We work with young people who have a wide range of additional needs and complex conditions. We challenge inequality and traditional responses to service delivery and ensure that we employ a strength-based approach to our work. This facilitates a more innovativeapproach to our support planning processes thereby realising more outcome focused goals for the young people we support and their families.We believe in coproduction and feel passionately that the young person should be firmly in control of their life outcomes. Supporting them through the Preparation for Adulthood agenda, we also ensure that our young people have aspirational goals and targetsthat will support them into employment pathways, independent living and all other meaningful occupation.How is working within the Transition Team a rewarding experienceWorking in the Transition Team, you will benefit from a rich tapestry of experience. We are remodelling approaches from traditional institutional approaches as we challenge inequalities that prevent young people with disabilities and their carers from livinga life free of discrimination and limitations. We work with a wide range of professionals and providers who enable us to look at an individuals needs holistically and consider our service response from a whole family perspective.We are looking for enthusiastic and dynamic qualified and registered Social Workers. For this role you will need to have completed your Assessed and Supported Year in Employment (ASYE). We recognise there will be exceptions to this so please speak to usif you are in any doubt.We are looking for social workers who believe it is important to ensure people have choice and control over their own support needs. We want people who are committed, like us, to focus on the person, their strengths and networks rather than routinely assessingpeople for services and eligibility. We want colleagues who will look first at what people can do rather than what they cant do and have conversations that identify what is important to the person, what matters rather than whats the matter. We believethat by exploring peoples goals and aspirations, and the strengths they have themselves or around them, we can help people to stay independent for longer and connected to their communities.If you hold the same values and ethos as we do, please come and join up and help us continue to develop our strength-based practice model.The Transition Team is a constantly evolving, fast paced service, where we like to keep challenging ourselves to achieve best practice and outcomes. We are a resilient team that is both welcoming and value driven. Working with us will provide you with opportunitiesfor professional and personal growth as well as positive career advancement opportunities.We also fully understand the challenges of day to day frontline social work, therefore we are putting tools in place to improve your work/life balance and to try and make day to day tasks more manageable. We are currently rolling out hybrid devices whichhave a touch screen, detachable keyboard and will enable staff to access systems such as LAS when working with clients. The new devices will allow colleagues to change the way they work and to help avoid unnecessary travel. The new hybrid devices will allowstaff to change the way they work, to be more agile and reduce the need to return to the office between visits etc.There are plenty of opportunities ahead and we are excited by this as we have a real chance to make a genuine difference.In order for us to achieve the required outcomes, the team are expanding. We are currently looking to recruit to rolesin Woking or Redhill (you have the option to choose). Additional InformationContact DetailsFor an informal discussion pleasecontact Anne Baillie on or by e-mail at .uk. We look forward to receiving your application.BenefitsFrom flexible working to job sharing (where possible) we are committed to providing a healthy work life balance. A laptop and mobile will be supplied if applicable to your role. You will benefit from 26 days annual leave, rising to 28 days after 2 yearsservice, a generous local government salary related pension, as well as the option to join our car lease scheme. For more information about the wide variety of benefits you can take advantage of please visit MyBenefits for Surrey County Council staff.