Social Care Officer

☞ Isle of Wight Council

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Update day: 07-05-2024

Location: Ryde South East

Category: Fashion / Lifestyle Social Work / Community Services

Industry: Government Public Administration

Job type: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £24,319 - £27,041 a year

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Ryde Wellbeing Centre

Grade 8, £24,319.00 to £27,041.00

Vacancy Reference:50065628

Closing Date:18/02/2022

Hours:37 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent

The Adult Social Care Locality Team are offering an exciting opportunity for a Social Care Officer post. This role would be supporting island residents to achieve independence in their own homes/community by taking a strengths-based, person centred approach to promote independence and positive wellbeing, enabling the client to achieve their goals and aspirations. This will involve undertaking Care Act Assessments, reviews, and creative care plans, while working in partnership with service providers and qualified Social Workers.

You will benefit from a unique and enriching environment within an organisation that values strong leadership, a good work life balance, quality management and reflective supervision.

You will have good communication and relationship building skills and fully recognise the importance of ensuring that the voice of those we are supporting is heard. You will share our ambitions, passion and attitude to ensure the people we serve live the best lives possible.

The successful candidate will be enthusiastic, motivated and passionate about working with a range of clients over the age of 18 and be suitably qualified with a NVQ3 in Care or equivalent. You will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of The Care Act, Mental Capacity Act, Data Protection Act and evidence of ability to work to practice guidance/procedure. You will be required to take part in the Out of Hours (OOH) stand-by duty rota as and when requested by management on an occasional basis.

Please visit the Adult Social Care career opportunities page which holds inspiring testimonies from team members, a guide to what the Island offers as well as personal development opportunities we offer.

Team IWC Values:
- Community & Customer focused
  • Effective & Efficient
  • Working together
  • Fair & transparent

We are proud of our commitment to offer:
- Supporting and supervising all our social care workforce
  • Providing opportunities for our staff as they develop and progress their professional careers
  • Providing regular training opportunities.

We are looking forward to receiving your application if you have what it takes to make a difference and share our vision and values.

For further information or an informal discussion, please contact Rachel McCleave on 01983 821000 or email rachel.mccleave@iow.gov.uk

Find out more about working for the Isle of Wight Council and living on the Islandhere.

The Isle of Wight Council protects its employees from discrimination and this is supported by theUnacceptable Behaviour Policy,Employee Code of ConductandBehaviours Framework. We actively promote the diversity of our workforce and we provide flexible working options (where appropriate) to support the different needs of our employees.


The Isle of Wight Council is an equal opportunities employer, who is proud to encourage applications from all cultures, backgrounds and abilities to better reflect the diversity within our local community. In addition to this, we are alsoaDisability Confident Employer. Along with a number of other areas of commitments, this means that providing you meet the basic essential requirements of the advertised role and have declared yourself as disabled, you will be offered an opportunity for an interview within the council.

Please view information pack and complete your job application online atwww.iwight.com/jobvacanciesTelephone 01983 823134 or emailcallcentre@iow.gov.ukif you need further information about applying. Please note only applications completed and submitted online by the closing date will be accepted.

We often receive a high volume of applicants for our vacancies. If you do not hear from the recruiting manager within three weeks of the closing date, we regret that your application will not have been successful on this occasion. If unsuccessful, we actively encourage you to revisit our job pages and apply to alternate posts that may be suitable.

Closing Date: 18/02/2022
Interview date: 03/03/2022
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Deadline: 21-06-2024

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