- Adults toolkit
- Learning and development offering
- Incremental salary progression
- Career pathways
- High standards of supervision across the service
- Safe caseloads
- Teaching partnerships
- Coaching offer
- Journals and subscriptions
- Practice standards and quality team
- Opportunity for social workers to influence and feed into practice
Adults toolkit
The adults practitioner toolkit has been designed in collaboration with practitioners to support social care practice across all of adults' services. Everything you need can be found in one place including legislation and good practice tips.
Learning and development offering
We offer a comprehensive Learning and Development programme with opportunities to develop specialisms.
We provide a blended learning offer through online training, face to face courses and eLearning modules to Cambridgeshire County Council (CCC) employees enabling all of us to best serve the communities and citizens of Cambridgeshire.
Courses include:
- Practice educator
- AMPH
- AMCP
- PROACT-SCIPr-UK® – Positive range of options to avoid crisis and use therapy
- Medication and healthcare
Incremental salary progression
An opportunity to move quickly through the pay scale increments.
Career pathways
Clear career pathways with plenty of opportunities to progress.
High standards of supervision across the service
Great Supervision practices allow social workers to make balanced decisions and feel supported in these. All managers are very supportive of personal development and there is a commitment across CCC to prioritise supervision.
Safe caseloads
We pride ourselves on our safe caseloads.
Teaching partnerships
CCC is part of the Greater Cambridgeshire Teaching Partnership and has strong links with Anglia Ruskin University. The benefits of these resources support our social workers to develop and offer lots of great opportunities.
Coaching offer
The Learning and development (L&D) team offer coaching with a focus on both personal and professional development.
Journals and subscriptions
You will be provided with access to the Journal of Social Work, Sage Knowledge and Research in Practice subscription which offers evidence-based practice research.
Practice standards and quality team
The practice standards and quality team are there to facilitate sessions, offering the opportunities to turn small mistakes into big opportunities for learning.
Opportunity for social workers to influence and feed into practice
The practice standards and quality team encourage feedback and suggestions and want social workers to help shape practice.
Join us and be part of an authority that has accepted the challenge to constantly improve.
You can get in touch with us today by calling Beth on 01223 699263.
Alternatively, you can email us on welovesocialworkers@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
