Full Time / 37 Hours Per Week / Permanent
Specialist Adult Social Worker to work with people who are hoarding.
The Locality based Social Care Team is seeking a dedicated Social Worker to provide specialized, trauma-informed support to individuals experiencing hoarding behaviours and chronic disorganization. This role goes beyond traditional case management, requiring a practitioner who blends deep clinical empathy with the resilience needed to navigate high-risk, complex environments. Operating at the intersection of mental health, public safety, and social care, you will act as the lead coordinator in a robust multi-agency and multi-disciplinary network. You will work daily alongside housing officers, fire and rescue services, environmental health, psychiatric teams, and community charities to co-create holistic, person-centered intervention plans. Because hoarding is often rooted in trauma, loss, or mental health conditions, your primary focus will be building deep, non-judgmental trust with individuals who may be resistant to change. By balancing a client's right to autonomy with vital safeguarding duties, you will de-escalate environmental crises, lead collaborative risk assessments, and guide gradual, sustainable lifestyle changes to improve safety and long-term well-being.
Join us and you’ll find a supportive team and a positive learning culture that supports you to work flexibly and creatively with people. You will enjoy working in a diverse multicultural organisation that’s proud to reflect our vibrant city. In an environment that offers plenty of opportunities to develop your expertise, trusts your professional judgement and encourages you to build a rewarding career.
Most of our teams are agile working with the flexibility in working location and hours.
What you'll be doing
No two days are the same, you’ll be working with people who experience hoarding. You will have conversations with them to discuss what matters to them and others around them. You’ll have a can-do attitude, a good awareness of the local information and advice that is available and use this to support people and their carers to solutions, drawing on what they already have around them that is working, or could work. You’ll work in partnership with others across social care, Health, Probation, Fire services and Housing teams.
What you need
Due to the nature of this role you’ll need to be registered with Social Work England, hold a valid driving UK licence, and will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.
What we can offer you
This role is very rewarding, supporting people to have lives that matter to them and working alongside others who feel the same. You can look forward to a work environment that encourages a healthy balance between your work life and your private life. You’ll enjoy generous annual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and the option of flexible working.
We’ll also give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise within a positive supportive learning environment, with a variety of training and development opportunities. In addition, you can choose from a number of flexible benefits, including childcare vouchers, discounts on city buses and trains and help with relocation to Leicester, where appropriate.
A diverse and inclusive employer
Leicester is a vibrant, multicultural city and we’re committed to representing the full range of Leicester’s diversity across the council. Why? Because we want to create an environment where everyone feels welcome and confident in being themselves. And by embracing different viewpoints and opinions, we can generate the innovative new ideas and opportunities that will drive our city forward.
That’s why diversity, equality and inclusion are part of everything we do. It’s why we listen to and engage with all our employee groups and involve them in decision-making. It’s why we encourage reverse mentoring, when senior managers are mentored by juniors from different backgrounds. And it’s why we work with external partners such as Scope to understand people’s needs. Because we’re working hard to create a council for everyone.
Join us
We’re committed to recruiting a diverse and highly-talented workforce as we continue to build a council that is fitting and representative of our great city. That’s why we’ve designed our recruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you. We’ll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible.
