Careers for Social Work Students
This page has resources for students on the social work course.
• Finding Vacancies |
Vacancies
Local Authority Vacancies
Jobs go Public – public sector recruitment site that also powers many local authority job pages. Search for vacancies across the country from their site. Includes vacancies from LG Jobs (see below) as well as others for the non-for-profit and public sectors: www.jobsgopublic.com/socialcarecareers
LG Jobs – official recruitment site for local government: www.lgjobs.com
Specific local authority sites – vacancies will be included in the Jobs go Public and LG Jobs sites above:
East Sussex http://poweredby.jobsgopublic.com/eastsussex
Hampshire www3.hants.gov.uk/hampshire-jobs
Surrey http://jobs.surreycc.gov.uk/job_search_advance.aspx
Kent www.kent.gov.uk
Local Authority, Charities and Other Vacancies
Charities – to find charities have a look at the not for profit organisations on the Creative Job Hunting page.
Great Social Care – job board for social care sector (not a recruitment agency). Social work vacancies are split for adult and child categories: www.greatsocialcare.co.uk
The Guardian (the paper prints public sector jobs on Wednesdays): http://jobs.guardian.co.uk http://society.guardian.co.uk
www.allcarejobs.co.uk a site for social care jobs and social work jobs
www.charityjob.co.uk site for charity jobs and third sector jobs
www.allhousingjobs.co.uk a site for social housing jobs
Professional Associations
British Association of Social Workers – representing social workers and social work in the UK: www.basw.co.uk
General Social Care Council – workforce regulator for social care with a register for social workers and social care workers: www.gscc.org.uk. Includes a ‘continuing your training’ section for qualified social workers: www.gscc.org.uk
Sectors
Overviews of the relevant sectors are at:
Social Care: www.prospects.ac.uk/links/socialsb
Voluntary: www.prospects.ac.uk/links/voluntarysb
Other Options
Click on the job titles for profiles of linked jobs courtesy of Prospects.ac.uk - entry to these professions may require further training:
Approximately 50% of ‘graduate vacancies’ are open to graduates from any subject. For more information see the Any Degree – Any Career section.
General Resources
Resources aimed for all students irrespective of course are available from the homepage: www.chi.ac.uk/careers. Subjects covered include CVs, applications, interviews, decision making, career planning through your course and work experience.
General Social Care Council (GSCC)
Social work is a regulated profession. As a social work student you will be expected to register with the General Social Care Council (GSCC), the social work profession’s regulator, and adhere to the standards set out in the Code of Practice for Social Workers.
As well as regulating individual social workers and students, we also regulate the performance of social work courses, the reports of which are published on our website, so you can check to see how each university is performing. For more information visit: http://www.gscc.org.uk