Community Support Worker - Safeguarding Team

Organisation:Leicestershire County Council

Work Location:Various

Worker Category:Hybrid office based up to 3 days per week

Working Hours:Various

Contract Type:Fixed Term (12 Months) 37 Hours Per Week

Closing Date:Friday 19^th September 2025

Salary:Gradeper annum (pro rata for part-time)

Are you passionate about safeguarding

Do you enjoy working in a fast-paced team

Are you innovative and seek to continually improve the services you deliver

About the Role

This role does not meet the eligibility requirements for new visa sponsorship applications therefore you must already have the right to work in the UK in order to apply.

As a Community Support Worker within the Safeguarding Team you will be triaging Safeguarding referrals. You will carry out the initial information gathering to determine if a Section 42 needs to be progressed. You will also be carrying out Safeguarding enquiries. Your team will have an office base and can work in a hybrid way. You will undertake visits to people in their own homes in a hospital setting or wherever the person feels most comfortable to meet you.

The purpose of the Safeguarding Adult Team is to ensure that there is a consistent and timely approach to applying safeguarding thresholds identifying and addressing immediate risk and establishing the outcomes of the person involved in line with Making Safeguarding Personal principles. The focus is on making safeguarding personal and therefore the service user remains at the centre of the enquiry.

You will provide short-term intervention (usually 3 working days) during which time you will aim to make enquiries to enable you to:

• Apply safeguarding thresholds
• Identify and take steps to address any immediate risk
• Meet or discuss with the person involved to establish what their outcomes are in relation to the safeguarding enquiry. Where there are any doubts about the persons capacity to consent to the enquiry and advise of their outcomes a mental capacity assessment and if necessary best interest decision in relation to this will be undertaken
• Establish who is involved with the persons care and who needs to be involved in the enquiry
• Hold a strategy meeting or discussion

Our Team

Our teams are friendly and supportive with regular supervision and our employees have manageable workloads. The teams hold weekly Group Supervision Meetings to promote the best possible outcomes for the people we work with across Leicestershire. We provide a comprehensive induction package with ongoing access to bespoke learning and development opportunities. This includes tailored continuous professional development sessions and access to academic research and practice expertise to develop skills experience and inform our employees practice. Are you looking for a rewarding career where you can make a difference to the lives of adults in Leicestershire Are you passionate about promoting independence

To find out more about what its like to be a Community Support Worker please see Katies storyhere.
We are passionate about developing your career in social care.

As a Grade 9 Community Support Worker you will be expected to have sufficient experience knowledge and skills to manage your workload under supervision to deliver a high quality person centred accountable statutory social care. This includes demonstrating competency undertaking Care and Support Assessments Mental Capacity Assessments and making Best Interest decisions.

As a Community Support Worker there are further opportunities to develop your career in Adult Social Care at Leicestershire County Council such as the opportunity to apply to undertake a Social Work Apprenticeship Occupational Therapy Apprenticeship and routes in leadership roles.

Please clickhereto see the CSW career progression plan.

A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.

You will require a valid full driving licence or access to a vehicle for this position.

About You

To apply for the CSW post you must:

• Hold a Level 2 in Maths and English
• Have relevant experience of working with adults in a social care setting and of working with other agencies within a fieldwork environment.
• Understand the need to undertake need and risk assessments and the issues/needs that adults and their families/carers may have.
• Have a good understanding of social care organisations and their roles and responsibilities as part of the wider community and voluntary sector.
• Be a confident communicator who is skilled in negotiation persuasion assertiveness and conflict management and able to build effective working relationships.
• Be able to recognise the limits of own accountability and responsibility and to seek appropriate support and advice when required.
• Be able to manage a caseload and work to clear objectives.

We would also expect you to shareour commitment to our valuesand will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the interview process.

Interested in Flexible Working

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Thereforewherever possible we will consider working arrangements that suit an individuals personal circumstanceswhilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working part-time hours compressed hours flexible start and finish times home/remote working etc.

Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in theOur Working Stylespage on our career site.

For more information or an informal discussion please contact:

Elizabeth Page Team Manager

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How to Apply

Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality diversity and inclusion at every warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the About You section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.

To apply for this job please click Apply Now. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the About You section more information see theHow to Applysection on our career site.

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