Are you ready for your next challenge? This is an exciting opportunity to join our new service at the very beginning, to influence how the service develops and to make a real impact in people’s lives!
We are launching a new, forward‑thinking service designed to provide rapid, compassionate, and highly personalised support to people experiencing multiple disadvantage including homelessness, substance misuse, offending behaviour and domestic abuse. This innovative model brings together trauma‑informed practice, assertive outreach, and multi‑agency collaboration to ensure people access safety with wrap around support to enable them informed choices in their lives.
As a social worker you will be expected to be able to undertake a full range of social work tasks independently. This includes providing specialist assessments under the Care Act and Mental Capacity Act to create strength-based support plans. Using a trauma informed approach, you will develop safety planning and ongoing support to adults facing homelessness or domestic abuse. Working closely with housing, health, police and voluntary sector partners, you will lead on safeguarding concerns, ensuring statutory duties are met. You will be expected to work flexibly across community settings, including outreach, sourcing emergency accommodation and working in partnership with agencies.
We are looking for candidates who:
- Engage effectively using creativity, compassion and authority to overcome resistance, build relationships, and communicate while maintaining professional boundaries with children, families and carers in complex, variable and emotionally challenging situations. to facilitate access to opportunities that may enhance their economic wellbeing.
- Able to manage workload independently, applying critical reflection and analysis to maintain, develop and apply a range of effective judgements, and assessments, utilising a wide range of evidence and hypotheses to inform decision making, assessment and timely intervention to progress complex cases and safeguarding interventions
Apply the principles of social justice, social inclusion and equality decision making in all casework, challenging issues of discrimination and oppression and demonstrating the confident application of ethical reasoning to professional practice.
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Experience in homelessness, domestic abuse support, mental health, or substance misuse is desirable. Above all, we want someone with empathy, creativity, and a commitment to social justice.
Please download the job description and person specification for more information.
To apply for this role, please follow the ‘Apply Now’ button and upload your CV and a supporting statement. We will be using your supporting statement to shortlist so please be sure to address how you meet all the criteria in the person specification, drawing on any relevant work/life experience, education, or personal interests.
For guidance on how to write an application see our how to apply page and our statement on the use of AI .
Interview invites will be sent out to successful candidates after the closing date and will take place week commencing 03 August.
Candidates who meet certain criteria are given priority when we shortlist. See our priority status page for details.
We will recognise and value your contribution and will invest in your future with us. We ensure a fully supported introduction to employment, competitive pay, rewards, and benefits.
There are many rewards working for East Sussex County Council, some of these include:
What we offer:
- The chance to shape an innovative new service
- Supportive leadership and high‑quality reflective supervision
- Ongoing professional development and specialist training
- Opportunities for career progression within a growing service
A workplace culture that values wellbeing, collaboration, and kindness
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For more information about our diverse range of benefits please see our benefits page .
For an informal discussion about this opportunity contact Deena Al-Hakim, Practice Manager by e-mail [email protected] or for an informal chat call 07542476197
For work that makes a difference, choose East Sussex!
Additional Information
This post is subject to an Enhanced DBS check or Enhanced check for Regulated Activity with the Disclosure & Barring Services (previously the Criminal Records Bureau). For further information about what is required in this process please go to https://www.gov.uk/dbs-check-applicant-criminal-record . Please note that we require evidence of an overseas police check if you have lived or worked abroad.
Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is part-time or term-time only.
If you require sponsorship to work in the UK please let the hiring manager know this in your application so we can check eligibility for sponsorship for the role. For further information please go to https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas
If you require any reasonable adjustments, due to disability, to enable you to participate fully in the process please contact the hiring manager on the contact details above.
