Social Worker in Northallerton inNorthallerton PUBLISHED THU 6 NOV 2025 Jump to job information section

Social Worker Job details Posting date: 06 November 2025 Salary: £38,220.00 to £42,839.00 per year Additional salary information: £38220.00 - £42839.00 a year Hours: Full time Closing date: 23 November 2025 Location: Northallerton, DL7 8AE Company: NHS Jobs Job type: Permanent Job reference: F0025-25-0059 Apply for this job Summary Job Purpose: To undertake a range of asset and strength based assessments and interventions to ensure that adults with care and support needs and carers achieve their desired outcomes and wellbeing. To determine eligibility for adult social care service set against the national standard. To work with adults with care and support needs and carers to develop personalised care and support plans that represent best value. To ensure that adults with care and support needs and carers are safe from harm. Where harm or abuse is identified ensuring the safety of the person and undertake the relevant safeguarding enquiries. Operational management: Undertaking an asset based approach to assessments of need with adults and carers as allocated by your line manager and where requested. Following assessments, identifying whether or not the adult and/or carers fall within the national eligibility criteria, and communicating this to the adult or carer. Where the adult or carer fall within eligibility criteria, working creatively and innovatively with the adult with care and support needs and/or carers to develop an agreed care and support plan to achieve the identified outcomes. Providing professional support and information, advice and guidance to adults with care and support needs and carers on how their needs could be partly or wholly met by access to universal and other non-care services. Explore opportunities to meet desired outcomes through alternative funding streams for example the voluntary sector or Continuing Health Care funding. You will support in proactively working towards the increased uptake of direct payments and other service development initiatives including (but not limited to) reablement, personalisation, individual budgets, self-assessment and self-directed care to meet the adult or carers outcomes. Ensuring value for money and maximise opportunities to generate income for adults with care and support needs and carers. Undertaking re-assessments and reviews of care pathways as required by your line manager. Intervening in emergency situations to protect adults with care and support needs or carers and to initiate the appropriate statutory and other actions required, and following the appropriate training and experience to undertake safeguarding adults investigations as Lead Investigator where required by the Team Manager Maintaining clear, concise and timely records of cases, care pathways and actions in line with the Directorates policies on file maintenance. Participating in the duty system as required by the Team Manager. Assisting in the collection of performance data using the appropriate IT systems. Representing the Directorate in court proceedings and with other agencies as required. Directly commission packages of support for adults with care and support needs or carers to achieve identified outcomes. Additional for sensory social workers: Undertake assessments of need with Deaf, deafened and deafblind people as allocated by your line manager and where indicated, to undertake assessments of need with carers. Provide social work services to Deaf, deafened and deafblind people or people with vision loss, including: Community work to help support, develop and stimulate local Deaf communities. Providing targeted interventions to people requiring help, including safeguarding, in mental health settings and in overcoming everyday barriers to social participation. Acting as Best Interests Assessor for the whole of Sensory Services following appropriate training. You will facilitate 1:1 and group sessions with North Yorkshire County Council staff and other professionals working with members of the Deaf community to promote awareness and understanding of Deaf culture. The post holder will work with the Team Manager to contribute to the development of communities to enable the empowerment of Deaf, deafened and deafblind people. Liaising with local, universal and other services to promote vulnerable peoples access to them. Resource management: Provide day-to-day advice and support to less experienced staff. Be a Practice Educator for students who are placed in or visiting the team as agreed with line Manager. Partnerships: Participate in training, developmental and project activity including multi-disciplinary and multi-agency activity as agreed with the line manager. Work with the line manager to contribute to the development of the local community to enable the empowerment of adults with care and support needs and carers. Liaising with local, universal and other services to promote access to them by adults with care and support needs and carers. Communications: To maintain clear, concise and timely records of cases, care packages and actions in line with the Directorate's policies on file maintenance, this includes electronic and paper records. Communicate to the adults with care and support needs and carers in an appropriate manner to enable effective written and oral communication and is in line with Directorate policies and procedures. Effectively negotiate and manage conversations where there is a disagreement, with the adult with care and support needs and/or their carers and others. Engage with a range of other agencies to maximise choice and resources. Communicate effectively and in a manner and timescale appropriate for the level of urgency, to your manager, other colleagues and professionals. Systems and information: Ensure that you utilise the current business processes to support the Adult Social Care function in relation to case recording, financial monitoring, ICT. To assist in the collection of client data and make appropriate use of IT systems. Contribute to the ongoing improvement and development of Adult Social Care processes and systems in conjunction with your line manager. As agreed with your line manager the post holder will assist in the timely and accurate collection of performance data using the appropriate IT systems and processes. Safeguarding: To be committed to safeguarding and promote the welfare of children, young people and adults, raising concerns as appropriate. Undertake Safeguarding Adults Investigations, as delegated by the Designated Safeguarding Manager and in line with procedures.