Social Worker – Multiple Compound Needs Service

East Sussex County Council

Social Worker in a new service addressing multiple disadvantages such as homelessness and domestic abuse. Working with partners to deliver effective support and safeguarding solutions for vulnerable individuals.

Posted 7/6/2026full-timeEastbourne • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSenior💰 £40,109 - £45,850 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Undertake a full range of social work tasks independently
Provide specialist assessments under the Care Act and Mental Capacity Act to create strength-based support plans
Develop safety planning and ongoing support to adults facing homelessness or domestic abuse
Work closely with housing, health, police and voluntary sector partners
Lead on safeguarding concerns, ensuring statutory duties are met
Work flexibly across community settings, including outreach, sourcing emergency accommodation and working in partnership with agencies

Requirements

What you’ll need

Engage effectively using creativity, compassion and authority to overcome resistance, build relationships, and communicate while maintaining professional boundaries with children, families and carers in complex, variable and emotionally challenging situations.
Able to manage workload independently, applying critical reflection and analysis to maintain, develop and apply a range of effective judgements, and assessments, utilising a wide range of evidence and hypotheses to inform decision making, assessment and timely intervention to progress complex cases and safeguarding interventions
Apply the principles of social justice, social inclusion and equality decision making in all casework, challenging issues of discrimination and oppression and demonstrating the confident application of ethical reasoning to professional practice.

Benefits

Comp & perks

The chance to shape an innovative new service
Supportive leadership and high‑quality reflective supervision
Ongoing professional development and specialist training
Opportunities for career progression within a growing service
A workplace culture that values wellbeing, collaboration, and kindness