Job Description

Job Introduction

Senior Social Worker

Risk and Independence Specialist Advisor and Reviewing Practitioner

We are looking to appoint a highly skilled and experienced Social Worker to join our friendly, supportive and exciting Risk and Independence team in Adult Social care services within Northumberland County Council.



This role full time 37 hours per week and is fixed term for a 12 month period.


The successful candidate will be based at County Hall, Morpeth. Salary is Band 10 50,269 - 54,495. The service is county wide across Northumberland.


This is a great opportunity for an experienced Social Worker looking for the next step in their career.

The Role:

The successful candidates will have a good working knowledge of legislative frameworks that underpin Adult social care practice and the ethos of promotion and completion of positive risk assessment. To enable service users to maximise their independence, life skills and achieve positive outcomes. The successful candidates will share Northumberland councils' vision of a council that works for everyone and incorporates its values. The candidates will have excellent report writing and communications skills and be able to communicate confidently and effectively with a wide range of service users, professionals and providers. The team comprises of highly skilled social workers and has strong commissioning links. The team members are very supportive and inclusive and encourage the sharing of knowledge and skills to discuss case work and to offer safe, robust, appropriate and cost-effective care planning. The successful candidates will work county wide offering consultation and delivering and training Adult social care community teams, to carry out project and development work and will complete high quality care act assessments working with teams to share knowledge and skills ensuring that care plans are person centred and meet the clients needs effectively and robustly. Case work will cross all Adult Social care services Care and support, mental health, learning disability services, head injury services and transition case work. As well as carrying out of county Care management reviews.

Essential Criteria

A social work qualification and valid SWE registration Knowledge of working with Adults and issues around working with families/carers and providers.


For more information, please see the attached job description and person specification. For an informal conversation, please contact Vicky Robinson, Senior Manager on 07966490573



Northumberland County Council's (NCC) vision is 'Land of Great Opportunities', for current and future generations. We believe there is no better place to live and work.

For further information about working for NCC, please visit our website here.

Why choose us?

We have some outstanding benefits and perks to offer you, including:

26 days annual leave plus public/bank holidays, rising to 31 days after 5 years of service (pro rata for part-time employees) Automatic enrolment into the Local Government Pension Scheme Flexi scheme (if applicable) - up to 2 days flexible leave available per month (pro rata for part-time employees)

To see all our excellent benefits and perks, please click here.


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Further information

For guidance on completing your application and for information about our Equality and Diversity principles, please see the attached guidance notes here.


We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We operate a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria. If you have a disability and would prefer to apply in a different format, please see the alternative methods below. This information will be treated as confidential and will only be used to check that you meet the essential requirements of the post.


Alternative application format:

British Sign Language: northumberlandcc-cs.signvideo.net

For those with speech difficulties or hearing loss: Text relay service dial 018001 01670 623930


Although we advertise on North East Jobs, and other websites, your application process will be directed to our Tribepad system. Please note that all communication regarding your application for this post will be sent to the email address that you have registered on Tribepad, including your invite to interview if you are shortlisted. Please check your emails regularly, including Spam/Junk, after the closing dates for notifications.