Social Care

In Adult Social Care we have opportunities for people with a range of skills. In our Contact and Response contact centre, you’ll deal with calls, assess issues and pass them on to a relevant team. As an approved mental health practitioner in the Adult Mental Health team, you’ll handle cases referred by the contact centre or a local NHS provider. In the Learning Disability team, you could work with people who transfer from children’s services and referrals from the NHS.

As an Occupational Therapist, you’ll help assess what support people need. While in the Independent Living service, you could provide that support to people who come out of hospital or care. In our Commission and Contracting team, you’ll help buy in services. Almost 90% of our £103 million Adult Services budget is spent on care and you’ll help manage procurement and ongoing contracts.

Join one of the teams in our Children’s Social Care department and you’ll play a key role in improving life for families and children in Leicester. In our Family and Children’s Centres, as a qualified or unqualified member of staff, you’ll work with families to help stabilise their lives. The social workers in our Children in Need and Assessment team protect children in the crucial period before care proceedings.

In our Looked After Children’s service, you’ll help to look after around 650 children and young adults up to the age of 25, including fostering and adoption. You could join the team advising schools on safeguarding children and educational welfare, or our Youth Offending service, which works with probation, police and health authorities to support young people in the criminal justice service.

Join our learning and inclusion service and you’ll help ensure children of every ability across Leicester have access to an education suited to their needs. You could join one of our special schools, working with profoundly disabled children. Or, as an Educational Psychologist, you may be supporting children with a Statement of Educational Need, liaising with health authorities and schools.

As a member of our School Meals catering team, you could work at an individual school, or in our central kitchen that supplies school meals across the city. Alternatively, in our School Support team, you could help schools to improve in areas such as attendance and results or give financial support to the Early Years function. Or you could offer Careers Advice to help children plan their future.