Holidays – you’ll receive 26 days' annual leave, rising to 31 after 5 years’ service, plus public and bank holidays.
Local government pension scheme – all our new employees are assessed against criteria and automatically enrolled into the scheme (unless you choose to opt out). If you already have continuous service or a pension with a different local authority this can be transferred to our scheme
Truly flexible working, roles are hybrid between home and the workplace where applicable, and flexibility also includes:
flexi-time scheme (for most roles)
compressed or part-time hours
job shares or term-time contracts where appropriate
Occupational health – offers a variety of employee wellbeing services to support a healthy work/life balance and lifestyle, including health screening and smoking cessation sessions
Free seminars on managing your finances and planning for retirement
Family friendly policies - we have a range of family friendly policies to support staff balance work and responsibilities outside of work including maternity leave, shared parental leave, adoption leave, maternity support and paternity leave, ordinary parental leave and carers leave.
Development - Our HR / OD team have built an impressive suite of learning and training activities that provide a rounded and learner-centred experience. This includes a new learning management website that enables you to manage your own learning online
Car pool – if you need a car for a business trip you can book a car. Our fleet includes fully electric vehicles and ultra-low emissions cars
Car share scheme – if you share your commute with another employee you can benefit from reduced travel costs, while helping to reduce the number of cars on the roads
Subsidised rail – we can offer you 25% discount on rail season tickets
Discounts and cash back from well-known major supermarket chains, high street retailers and on holidays and entertainment
Local discounts with retailers and service providers
Salary sacrifice schemes which save tax and national insurance - including cycle to work and purchasing additional pension contributions
Discounted leisure membership
Purchase of Annual Leave available
Families & Children’s benefits
Progression
There are practice education opportunities in house and our Newly Qualified Social Work (ASYE) programme supports pods via an ASYE Development Manager.
We offer progression through interview and portfolio-based assignments supported by our Principal Social Worker (PSW)
There are opportunities to become a Practice Development Lead for Level 3 & Level 4 Social Workers which is a step towards a role in management, we also offer 20% off the job to support with auditing work.
Our thematic audits enable us to pick out best practice to share and to understand our strengths as well as weaknesses.
Our annual CPD programme is based upon staff/family feedback, societal impacts, and Quality Assurance findings.
Teaching partnership with Bournemouth University results in journal club, being involved in masterclasses with those with experience help to shape university programme.
Benefits
We have a range of roles including full time, part time and compressed 9- day fortnight hours
Access to wide wellbeing support service available for practitioners which includes a brand new support service Trauma Risk Informed Management Training (TRiM) to reduce the likelihood of secondary trauma in our staff
Multi-disciplinary team support including key workers who will co-work some cases with you as well as access to administrative services to free you up to focus on spending time with families.
An attractive rewards package with an excellent range of discounted products and services with national and local retailers via our Wiltshire Rewards scheme
The opportunity to work for a forward-thinking council with a strong focus on staff engagement.
