Our teams - Adults

The Adult and Autism team (AAT) covers the whole of Cambridgeshire supporting individuals from the ages of 18 years up to 75 years as well as their linked informal carers. We support those with Autism without a related learning disability, and others with eligible needs under the Care Act 2014 who do not sit with another statutory social care service. We also work with young people entering adult services to consider their support once they reach 18.

The team is based in St Ives, Cambridgeshire.

A message from the Team: “‘No two days are ever the same in AAT, working with a wide range of individuals and situations. The work can be challenging and demanding but is ultimately rewarding, working to support individuals to develop their life chances. The team is supportive and knowledgeable, with people working together in a flexible way for the best outcomes for those we work with.’

The Adult Early Help team provide advice and support to anyone over the age of 18 who is seeking support or social care.

The team is made up of social workers, occupational therapists, adult support co-ordinators and welfare benefit advisors from a variety of backgrounds. They offer support to individuals and also to families and carers.

The team is based in St Ives, Cambridgeshire.

Cambridgeshire County Council have an Adult Service and work with people who are in need of care, support and safeguarding from age 18 upwards.

There is a Prevention and early Intervention Service as well as four locality teams within Cambridgeshire based in Cambridge, East Cambridgeshire, Huntingdon and Fenland. Each team aspires to enable people to make choices and take control to ultimately live healthy, fulfilled, socially engaged and independent lives. They do this through a dynamic and innovative approach, utilising the strengths within communities and families to enable people to live within their communities for as long as possible.

Cambridgeshire values and supports aspiring social workers, providing a carefully managed caseload, high quality regular supervision and continuous development opportunities and a new and inclusive Appraisal system that rewards good practice and supports progression and succession planning within social work teams.

The Care Home Support Team are a team of social workers offering a new service and fresh approach to supporting residential and nursing care homes as well as learning disability supported living providers across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. The team collaborate with the Council's Contracts Team, Operations Teams and the CCG and use the intelligence to prioritise practice support for those homes that need it.

The team take a lead in working alongside care home managers in a supportive partnership that aids in developing good practice within settings. The team use their core social work values, skills and knowledge to support the home manager to implement change. The team utilise models and theories of social work practice and role model what good practice looks like. The support is flexible, intensive and preventative with the ultimate outcome of ensuring good quality care for the adults living there.

The team is dedicated to ongoing development of its service based on reflection and evaluation of their outcomes and feedback from providers. The team additionally utilise their reflective practice skills to facilitate practice sessions for providers to attend. The team also create a monthly practice newsletter for providers to aid in wider sharing of knowledge and information, as well as a way of sharing the strengths and good practice they have observed.

The team primarily work from home but have an office based in Huntingdon.

A message from the team: “The Care Home Support Team is a great team to be part of. As a new team we have had a unique opportunity to be creative in our practice and shape the way in which we provided support to our residential, nursing and learning disability providers. The team has a strong emphasis on Social Work values and best practice. Within the team there is also dedicated time and space for reflection and learning”.

The Council's Continuing Healthcare Team supports the Local Health and Social Care system to ensure that individuals are accessing appropriate funding streams. We support teams across adult social care in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough to understand NHS Continuing Healthcare and work in partnership with our colleagues in NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough to improve outcomes for the citizens of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.

A message from the team: "Working in the Continuing Healthcare Team has highlighted the need to get things right for the people we work for, a person who meets the threshold for full continuing healthcare does not pay a contribution towards their care - this can make a considerable difference to a person’s quality of life’ when they need it most.

It is an exciting fast paced team with excellent opportunities for learning and development, around NHS Continuing Healthcare and the low".

Cambridgeshire County Council's In House Services support adults with learning disabilities and older people. We have a range of service offers from day opportunities and employment support to 24/7 support services. We are passionate about providing quality, personalised support and focus our strengths and skills on promoting independence and opportunities for the adults we support.

Each service has a highly skilled and experienced staff team, with supportive and motivated managers who understand what it takes to be an excellent front line worker. Our staff teams are offered excellent training opportunities and we use the apprenticeship levy to ensure staff can develop and grow within their careers.

Our services make a difference to every individual we support and we are always keen to recruit new, motivated and passionate individuals to join our team.

The Learning Disability Partnership (LDP) is a model which is nationally recognised by NHSE as a fully integrated health and social care service that delivers seamless and innovative community support to adults across Cambridgeshire.

The teams are located across Cambridgeshire including Cambridge, Ely, Papworth, Fenland and Huntingdon.

A message from the team: “If you are an energetic and motivated social worker with a commitment to excellence in practice and successful outcomes for people with a learning disability, then this role will appeal to you. You will work alongside a team of dedicated, dynamic and highly skilled professionals managing complex cases within community”.

Peterborough City Council (PCC) and Cambridgeshire County Council (CCC) have delegated responsibility for the delivery of adult social work services, for people aged 18 years and over with needs associated with their mental health, to the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT). The primary intention of this arrangement is to enable the effective delivery of a well-coordinated health and social care mental health service that appears seamless to the people who use the service and their carers. As such the Social Work Teams work alongside their mental health multi-disciplinary colleagues across Cambridgeshire to positively promote peoples’ rights and bring the legal frameworks of the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Mental Health Act 1983, Human Rights Act 1998, and Equality Act 2010 to life and support the achievement of person-centred goals and outcomes. This supportive and proactive interface role also enables the “Making Safeguarding Personal” Principles, enshrined within the Care Act, to be a thread that runs throughout.

The role of the social worker, based within CPFT, focuses on enabling, supporting, and empowering adults, using nationally recognised practice tools such as strengths and asset-based approaches. This arrangement provides excellent opportunities for social workers who are passionate about mental health and experienced within adult social care, to bring their professional perspective to promote wellbeing and self-determination in real partnership with the people they support.

CPFT and Cambridgeshire County Council work in close collaboration to enable and support continued professional development and link effectively with local Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) including Anglia Ruskin University to promote access to Social Work learning opportunities; this particularly, but not exclusively, includes Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) and Practice Educator training. A regular Social Work Forum also supports professional development opportunities, and is attended by the Social Work England Regional Engagement Lead.

The teams have base locations in Cambridge, Huntingdon, and Fenland, and opportunities for flexible working are supported.

A message from the team: “Mental health is a really good opportunity for someone – experience in these teams is invaluable. Anyone wanting to develop their career, you couldn’t do better than mental health work”.

The Reablement team provide short term support to people in their own homes. Individually tailored care plans enable people to maximise their independence in daily living. The team is made up of social workers, occupational therapists, care coordinators, support workers and adult support co-ordinators. People are at the centre of everything we do.

A message from the team: We love working in the Reablement Team because we love helping people and are caring and compassionate.

Formally called the Discharge Planning Team. This is a fast paced and exciting service, who provide support to adults being discharged from a stay in hospital, by setting up care after they are discharged.

The team refers people in need to a range of care services such as reablement, long term care providers or other community care providers.

The team is based in three locations: Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, Hinchingbrooke Hospital, Huntingdon and Peterborough City Hospital.

The Young Adults Team sits within the Disability Social Care 0-25 Service, and is based at Scott House in Huntingdon (although flexible working arrangements will be in place for all staff post-Covid.)

The Young Adult’s Team work with young people aged 16-25 years, across the whole county of Cambridgeshire, who have a diagnosed learning disability and require ongoing care and support in adulthood. Following the recent expansion of this team’s staffing structure, we have developed an exciting new way of working which sees all staff working in a highly supportive environment, being led by a high number of senior social workers, alongside the team manager. There are plenty of opportunities for ongoing professional development due to the varied nature of the role. Carefully managed caseloads reflect worker’s experience and skill set, along with a raft of opportunities for joint working with a range of departments and provider services, making this a really interesting and rewarding place to work.

We are looking for motivated, committed and passionate individuals to join this fun and supportive team, who are dedicated to improving the lives of young people, encouraging independence, and increasing choice and opportunities in adulthood. Knowledge and experience of working with people with a learning disability is desirable but not essential, and we would ideally like candidates with previous experience in Care Act, Mental Capacity and adult safeguarding work.