Senior Social Worker Specialist Community Disability Team

Salary

£39,862 - £47,181 full time salary

Contractual hours

Basis

Fixed Hours

Package

We are pleased to offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your wellbeing. You can read about them on our Why work for us pages.

Job category/type

Adult Social Care

Date posted

17/03/2026

Job reference

REQ0000485

Job introduction

Do you have a talent for inspiring excellent social work practice?

Are you keen to join an exciting and passionate team working with adults with a learning disability?

Would you like to develop your skills in a specialist area? If so, then this may be the role for you.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a 37 hour (full time) and 22.5 hour (part time) permanent Social Worker / Senior Social Worker posts within the Specialist Community Disability Team’s 25+ Pod, working with adults with a learning disability and/or autism.

£39,862 - £47,181 Social Worker £39 ,862 - £42,839 linked Senior Social Worker £44,075 - £47,181 (Full time salary given please pro-rata for 22.5 hours) (please see attached Job Description)

For more details please contact Amy Wallace, Telephone: View phone number on unitedkingdom.jobradars.com or Email: ***email_hidden***

About the role

We are a team which provides an exciting range of social work services to adults with disabilities as part of the whole life pathway.

You would need to have a broad understanding of these issues and support staff to implement proportionate and timely assessments to meet identified outcomes for adults with a learning disability.

Keeping people safe and preventing/ minimising the impact of abuse through Safeguarding Enquiries is our top priority. Supporting decision making is a vital part of the teams work and excellent practice of the Mental Capacity Act and Best Interest planning is widely supported. Applications to the Court of Protection for welfare decisions and Deprivation of Liberty Orders are also a key part of your team’s practice.

As a Social Worker you will support the delivery of statutory duties placed upon us by the Care Act.

You will also:

• Be a qualified Social Worker
• Have the skills to work within an integrated multi-disciplinary setting
• Be able to support a service undergoing some exciting changes and development of specialist projects.

Have good knowledge, skills and experience of statutory roles and responsibilities

• Support the Intake/ Duty Service to triage statutory demands and manage risk appropriately (including Section 42 work), as part of a rota
• Be responsible for managing your own small caseload autonomously with the support of your supervisor/manager
• Demonstrate a keen interest in developing your knowledge and skills in relation to disabilities and specialist areas of practice.
• Whilst prior experience of working with children, young people or adults with disabilities is not essential it would be an advantage

We welcome applications from all qualified and Social Work England registered Social Workers . Unfortunately, we can only consider applicants who meet this requirement.

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).

Why work for us?

As a council, we want to:

• be connected
• be confident
• be innovative and creative
• be diverse and inclusive
• be healthy and psychologically safe

For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us which gives details of our wellbeing support, our benefits including leave and pensions as well as details of our training and development.

How to apply

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 provide your education and career history and answer some application/shortlisting questions. Your answers to the application/shortlisting questions are the most important part of your application as they 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 Shortlisting questions guidance (brighton-hove.gov.uk) as this gives important advice which will increase your chance of success in the shortlisting process.

AI advice for candidates

We are interested in hearing about your experience and skills in your own words. While we value people who know how to use AI, we ask that you minimise using it in your application.

We are keen to hear how your experience and skills align to our values and the skills and experience needed to perform well in our roles with clear real examples from you. To support you in this, we have guidance on using the STAR model which can help you ensure you are telling us your whole story. We also provide clarity on the skills we are looking for in our adverts and in the job description/person specification attached to each job advert.

All the applications we receive are read by at least two hiring managers and we do not use AI in this process.

Our experience of reading applications is that those that have heavily used AI contain generic paragraphs that are strikingly similar to other applicants’ responses. This makes it extremely difficult to differentiate between applications, and doesn't give us enough evidence of your individual skills. There is a risk that we will therefore not be able to shortlist you. Instead, we recommend you ensure your application stands out by presenting clear examples of your actual skills and experiences in your own words.

Additional information

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

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

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.