Are you passionate about making a positive and lasting difference for the people of Hull? 

Care and support in Hull is transforming and Hull City Council is looking for exceptional individuals like you to join the Adult Social Care team. If you are enthusiastic, motivated and are up for a new challenge, then we have an exciting opportunity for you. 

Are you an experienced social worker?

Are you interested in working in an ever-evolving service area? 

Post is fixed term until March 2025 due to funding. 

To work in the Early Help Adult Social Care Services (inclusive of Community See and Solve) to provide high quality social work practice and manage a caseload with a focus on supporting people in non-Council commissioned Supported Accommodation, facing multiple disadvantages presenting with complex problems including homelessness, substance misuse, contact with the criminal justice system and mental ill health. 

Service Vision and Purpose

Community See & Solve are the main front door integrated service for people accessing Adult Social Care via the community.  Within Hull Adult Social Care, we are developing an understanding of trauma informed practice. Trauma-Informed Practice is a strengths-based approach, which seeks to understand and respond to the impact of trauma on people’s lives. The approach emphasises physical, psychological, and emotional safety for everyone and aims to empower individuals to re-establish control of their lives. 

Trauma-informed practice recognises the prevalence of trauma and its impact on the emotional, psychological and social wellbeing of people. Awareness of trauma has progressed over the last 20 years, incorporating knowledge from attachment, child development and cognitive memory. 

Within Adult Social Care there are several initiatives which require working in delivering a coordinated service for people experiencing multiple disadvantages. This includes the Supported Accommodation Review Team which works closely with the Making Every Adult Matter and Rough Sleeping Initiative. The people who are supported within Early Help Adult Social Care Services will require consistent and person-centred social work support to establish care and support needs and reach their long-term personal goals. 

The role will facilitate an integration of housing and mental health/adult social care to develop and provide a seamless service through assessment and referral, working directly with the housing teams, rough sleepers’ team, mental health homelessness team and other adult social care services to plan, prepare and deliver bespoke services for people in supported accommodation with complex needs. To ensure through ongoing case management that these services continue to meet needs and are best value. 

Role and Responsibilities of the job 

The Supported Accommodation Review Team is a multi-disciplinary team based in the Private Housing Service, but with Adult Social Care and Housing Benefit functions. 

The post holder will support this multi-disciplinary team working with Housing Enforcement Officers, Performance & Quality Officers (support) and Housing Benefit colleagues within the team to facilitate the monitoring and improvement of housing and support standards in private rented accommodation in the city where housing providers deliver supported accommodation to vulnerable people with complex needs. The role will support the team in the delivery of the DLUHC Supported Housing Improvement Programme. There will also be a requirement to work with other Council teams and partners who interact with supported residents, accommodation, and the neighbourhoods in which they are located. 

This post will work alongside other specialist services such as High Needs Adult Social Care Services, Mental Health, Probation, Learning Disability services and providers of specialist community services to ensure the best use of public resources.  

To provide expert and effective social work practice in complex situations ensuring that social work is planned, progressed, and reviewed in accordance with legislative and departmental requirements. That safeguarding process is implemented, and positive risk management approach is core to case management practice. 

Navigate and secure services that enable people to remain in control, have access to good information, advice and care.  Use Connect to Support as a tool to achieve this, particularly to create and deliver key messages about community and peer support for young people and their families. 

Leads on local / national strategies for the improvement of the quality of Supported Accommodation, contributing to the Review Team Initiatives as part of the delivery of the DLUHC Supported Housing Improvement Programme, including workforce development both within the Council, with partners, and with Supported Accommodation Providers, contributing to guidance, policies and procedures, ensuring ASC Senior Management Team are kept updated.The successful candidates will work across the City, it will involve visiting Hostels and working out of The Community Safety Hub.  

The successful candidate for Specialist Social Workers will have the following:

• Professional qualification in Social Work (Diploma in Social Work, BA/BSc/MA in Social Work, CQSW as required by Social Work England) and is registered with Social Work England.

• Experience of working as a social worker with people who have complex needs and require specialist support and interventions to enable them to live safe and wherever possible independent lives.

• Experience of assessment and planning, initiating, monitoring, developing and providing outcomes-driven services in adult social care.

• A passion to work with people to enable them to live their life and not receive a service

About us

We provide a range of benefits to motivate, reward and recognise the valuable work of our employees, which include:

•          Work/Life Balance - The Council recognises that all employees need tobalance home life with meeting work commitments through the provision of appropriate policies and support, for example, family and parental leave, flexible hours and career break schemes.

•          Learning and Development - The Council has a commitment to lifelong learning. We provide excellent development opportunities for all employees.

•          Pension - We provide a defined benefit pension scheme whereby theCouncil contributes towards a pension payable on retirement.

•         Employee discounts - There are a selection of voluntary benefits availablegiving a wide variety of staff discounts on goods and services from a range of suppliers via our Hull plus website.

•          Laptops for all adult social care professionals, to enable them to work smarter and more flexibly.  

The role supports Hull’s Adult Social Care strategic vision of ‘a life not a service’. Apply now to join a group of likeminded, caring Adult Social Care staff who are dedicated to helping people improve their health and live their lives to the fullest 

We provide a range of benefits to motivate, reward and recognise the valuable work of our employees. Please click below to view the benefits of working for Hull City Council. 

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https://www.workingforhullcitycouncil.org.uk/help-applying-interviews/apply-jobs 

Please read our additional information to see the range of benefits that are offered with our social worker roles.  

For further information regarding the role please contact Kirsty Winn on 01482 318700, email kirsty.winn@hullcc.gov.uk or John Bower on 01482 614372, email: john.bower@hullcc.gov.uk

To apply please visit Hull City Council - Jobs and careers (hullcc.gov.uk)