Independence Advisor
Company
Location
Southampton, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
8/14/2025
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Description
Are you compassionate, driven and ready to make a real impact in people’s lives? Do you thrive in a dynamic environment where every day brings new challenges and opportunities to create change? If so, we want you to join in our team! We are currently looking for an Independence advisor to work 37 hours per week across Monday to Friday in our City Welling Team.
About The Team
You will join an energetic and supportive team striving to support people in Southampton live active, safe and independent lives. The City Wellbeing Team supports adults living in the community with either a physical disability or a diagnosis of dementia and delivers statutory services to those individuals, families and carers who are already in receipt of support. This can be delivered either in their own home or in a residential or nursing placement.
The social work roles and responsivities include undertaking reviews under the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005 assessments, contributions to multi-agency planning, provide interventions to individuals and their families or carers. Negotiating and coordinating resources and conducting s.42 safeguarding enquires.
About Southampton City Council
In Southampton, we face the challenges familiar to local authorities across the country. ¿We have robust plans in place to meet those challenges that we’ve named ‘Ambitious Futures’ and are confident, self-aware and focused. We know what we need to do, how we’re going to do it, and the evidence shows we’re making really good progress in improving how we work and the difference we make to people’s lives. We’ll have Newton Europe working with us for the next two years to support us deliver our plans on track.
We share the #SocialCareFuture Vision, to enable us all ‘to live in place we call home, with the people and things we love, in communities where we look out for each other, doing the things that matter to us. We have recently changed the way we work to strengthen our approach and ensure that we work with our partners to keep residents healthy, independent, connected and contributing to society. We want to ensure that our community and people who access our services feel safe, supported and connected enabling each person to live independently with opportunities to use technology enabled care and self-serve wherever possible.
This truly is an opportunity to bring your innovation, creativity and challenge to making positive changes that result in better quality of life for people. We want agile leadership at all levels to embed a positive learning culture, we really are proud to fail!¿ Whether this is your first step into social care, or you are an experienced Social Worker or Social Work Manager we have several opportunities across the teams.
What We Offer
Salary: The salary band for this role is £37,280 - £40,778. The starting salary is £37,280 with annual progression through the salary bands.
Here at SCC we have a range of different perks and benefits, a few examples can be found below.
Contact details for informal discussion:
For further information and details regarding the role please contact email Amanda Savage
Email
Recruitment contact details:
Tel: 023 8083 4033
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About The Team
You will join an energetic and supportive team striving to support people in Southampton live active, safe and independent lives. The City Wellbeing Team supports adults living in the community with either a physical disability or a diagnosis of dementia and delivers statutory services to those individuals, families and carers who are already in receipt of support. This can be delivered either in their own home or in a residential or nursing placement.
The social work roles and responsivities include undertaking reviews under the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005 assessments, contributions to multi-agency planning, provide interventions to individuals and their families or carers. Negotiating and coordinating resources and conducting s.42 safeguarding enquires.
About Southampton City Council
In Southampton, we face the challenges familiar to local authorities across the country. ¿We have robust plans in place to meet those challenges that we’ve named ‘Ambitious Futures’ and are confident, self-aware and focused. We know what we need to do, how we’re going to do it, and the evidence shows we’re making really good progress in improving how we work and the difference we make to people’s lives. We’ll have Newton Europe working with us for the next two years to support us deliver our plans on track.
We share the #SocialCareFuture Vision, to enable us all ‘to live in place we call home, with the people and things we love, in communities where we look out for each other, doing the things that matter to us. We have recently changed the way we work to strengthen our approach and ensure that we work with our partners to keep residents healthy, independent, connected and contributing to society. We want to ensure that our community and people who access our services feel safe, supported and connected enabling each person to live independently with opportunities to use technology enabled care and self-serve wherever possible.
This truly is an opportunity to bring your innovation, creativity and challenge to making positive changes that result in better quality of life for people. We want agile leadership at all levels to embed a positive learning culture, we really are proud to fail!¿ Whether this is your first step into social care, or you are an experienced Social Worker or Social Work Manager we have several opportunities across the teams.
What We Offer
Salary: The salary band for this role is £37,280 - £40,778. The starting salary is £37,280 with annual progression through the salary bands.
Here at SCC we have a range of different perks and benefits, a few examples can be found below.
- Excellent
- Death in service benefit of x3 salary, and optional salary sacrifice shared cost AVC (additional voluntary contribution)
- Generous holiday 25–31 days, based on role and service
- Flexible working options (role-dependent)
- Family-friendly policies - Maternity, Paternity, Adoption, Shared/Unpaid Parental Leave, Time off for Dependents
- Training and development, including coaching and mentoring
- Health and wellbeing support - Employee Assistance Programme, Menopause Pledge, Mental Health First Aiders and access to a variety of staff networks
- Veteran-friendly employer with the Armed Forces Covenant
- Retail discounts and savings through the Southampton City Council benefits platform
- Discounted memberships at local sports and fitness centres
- Sustainable travel benefits - low emission car scheme, cycle to work, season ticket loans
- Employee volunteering scheme with 2 paid days leave to volunteer
Contact details for informal discussion:
For further information and details regarding the role please contact email Amanda Savage
Recruitment contact details:
Tel: 023 8083 4033
For More Information About SCC Please Visit
Follow us on social media for regular updates on our featured jobs and latest news.
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