Job Description

Social Worker

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Posted on 1 November 2025 Apply
Directorate BHCC: Homes and Adult Social Care Salary 39,862 - 42,839 Contract Permanent Closing Date Apply by 30 November 2025

Location

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Brighton






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Job Summary

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Job reference orbis/TP/737/43981
Positions available 1
Working hours 37
Closing date 30 November 2025
Job category Social Work - Adults
Organisation Brighton & Hove City Council

Job introduction

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We are currently looking to recruit a Social Worker within our Adult Safeguarding and Duty Service (ASDS) - a short term service which provides an urgent response City wide to Adults with care and support needs.

Brighton and Hove is both a challenging and rewarding place to work and we are looking for social workers who want to work creatively with us to ensure that individuals can live independent and fulfilled lives. We are seeking an experienced social worker; ideally experienced in Adults Social Work; however if your experience is in Children Social Work full training will be provided.

Our Adult Safeguarding and Duty Service is a busy, supportive and friendly team who provide a responsive city-wide single contact point for Adult Assessment Social Care, dealing with urgent issues and crisis intervention; this includes triaging all incoming safeguarding concerns for Adult Assessment Services and mitigating immediate risks for adults at risk of harm or abuse.

The successful candidate would have a broad understanding of care planning, safeguarding and how to co-ordinate proportionate and timely assessments to meet identified outcomes for Adults at the first point of contact in a fast paced environment and a comprehensive knowledge of relevant legislation, including The Care Act 2014 and Mental Capacity Act 2005.

About the role

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Brighton is a challenging and rewarding place to work. Our demographic is unique, and you'll need to show that you have experience of working with diverse situations and multi-disciplinary contexts using relevant theory and legislation. We are looking for you to be able to articulate how you will work creatively to ensure that our customers live independent and fulfilled lives. Does that sound like you? We have opportunities in our Adult Social Care services including work with people living with physical health challenges, with mental health challenges, and those in hospitals.


Please read our Apply for a job at the council pages carefully. They give you all the guidance you need to complete your application as well as information on what will happen after you've submitted your application and at interview.


As part of your application, you will need to upload your Application Form and answers to some shortlisting questions. Your answers to the shortlisting questions are the most important part of your application as it will be used in the shortlisting process to assess whether you meet the essential requirements for the role that are set out in the person specification and to decide whether you should be offered an interview. Before you start your application, please read our guidance here (Application Form guidance (brighton-hove.gov.uk) and (Shortlisting guidance (brighton-hove.gov.uk) as this gives important advice which will increase your chance of success in the shortlisting process.


We look forward to meeting you. For an informal conversation please contact Louise Shillingford Lou.Shillingford@brighton-hove.gov.uk

Additional information

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Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.


We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining. Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team and travel to and from your contractual location would be at your own expense.


For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us

Company information

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Encouraging a diverse workforce

Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.


Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and the work we are doing to encourage a diverse workforce (brighton-hove.gov.uk).


Please note that this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, and is subject to a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Check.