Social Care Practitioner ( 2 posts)

The Living Well Team are looking for two Social Care Practitioners to join Living Well Derbyshire across the Amber Valley and North East Derbyshire / Bolsover teams. Living Well Derbyshire is focussed on helping local people to recover from mental health illness.  The Living Well programme aims to offer more accessible mental health support from a variety of different healthcare professionals and the Voluntary Sector to promote a person’s mental health. Independence and wellbeing. The people you work with will have primary mental health needs, but may include people with a learning disability, drug or alcohol dependency and physical health needs.

For more information about the Living Well programme please visit https://livingwellderbyshire.org.uk/.

As a Social Care Practitioner, you will be working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, reporting to the Senior Practitioner and Service Manager within the departments Mental Health Team.  You will work alongside other Living Well partners to offer short-term, holistic assessments, with a focus on identifying and advocating for people’s social care needs.

As a Social Care Practitioner, you will be a key link between Derbyshire Adult Care and the Living Well programme.  You will work with people and carers who use our services to continuously seek and engage lived experience input, to ensure the person’s voice remains paramount to their care.

You will apply a strengths-based approach to your practice focussing on co-production with people who use our service and their carer’s.

These posts are fixed term until 31/3/26 due to funding.  

Employees have access to a range of support, benefits and discounts including: 

• Generous Annual Leave Scheme 25 days annual leave per year (rising to 30 days after 5 years continuous service) plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata). 
• Local Government Pension Scheme: Providing financial security
• Supportive management and team
• Training and Development: Opportunities for professional qualifications and ongoing training.
• Wellbeing Support Framework: Includes OH physician services, physiotherapy, CBT, and in-house counselling.
• Employee Wellbeing Support: Fast track physiotherapy, confidential psychological support services, Employee Assistance Programme, and “Wisdom” app.
• Paid travel expenses if required to travel to other sites (Terms and conditions apply)
• Cycle to Work Scheme: Promoting a healthy lifestyle.
• Our Derbyshire Rewards: a package of benefits, cashback and discounts.

More details on the benefits of working for the council can be found on our reward and recognition page here

If you would like to discuss Living Well and the Social Care Practitioner role, or have any questions, please contact Claire Bartram on 01629 537152 or email at Claire.Bartram@derbyshire.gov.uk.

As the post is fixed term, secondment requests would need have been approved by your line manager.

Provisional Interview Date: TBC