Jobs and careers in Social Services

Adults Services - Job Opportunities

About Devon County Council:

As the largest employer in the county, Devon County Council offers you a varied career, excellent benefits, promotional prospects and a superb working environment. A recent service and management reorganisation of our Social Services Directorate has created the opportunity to recruit professional people to the following pivotal roles:

All positions require social care qualifications DipSW, CQSW, CSS or DipOT and / or management qualifications DMS, CMS, NVQ4/5, but most importantly you will be passionate about improving outcomes for vulnerable people in Devon’s society.

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Professionally qualified Occupational Therapists and Social Workers are sought with a minimum of three years post qualification experience. These influential positions will make key contributions to the management of performance, practice and overall service improvement. The working context is one of developing integration with health partners for the benefit of service users and carers.

Posts are available in localities across the county

Examples include:

  • Resource Manager – (Older Peoples and Disability Services Division) Mid and North Devon

    Ref:
    Salary c.£31,700 - £35,400
    An enthusiastic self- starter with considerable experience of managing people in a health and social care environment. Budgetary knowledge is essential, as is the ability to negotiate, facilitate and influence
  • Practice Managers (Older People and Disability Services Division)
    Ref:
    Salary c.£28,000 - £31,700

Flexible working conditions will be accommodated wherever possible.

All jobs within Devon County Council are advertised at 'Choice' - Devon's Online Recruitment Guide'. This can be viewed on-line at www.devonjobs.gov.uk/.

If you would prefer to complete an off-line application then often you will be able to download a Word version of the application form from the page listing individual job details. Or please contact the First Stop Desk below and ask for an application pack to be sent you.

First Stop Desk

Human Resources (HR) Helpdesk

For further information about working within Domicilary, Residential or Day Care please contact one of our Resource Managers:

Mid & North Devon Locality

  • Lorna Priest, Tel. 01392 253319.

South & West Locality

  • Val Corfield, Tel. 01392 386 989, e-mail: vcorfiel@devon.gov.uk

Exeter & East Devon Locality

  • Maggie Hogarth, Tel: 01392 383 051, e-mail: mhogarth@devon.gov.uk

Devon County Council employment information:

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About Devon - the cream of the crop!

In a survey by Country Life magazine, Devon was named as the best county in England with a quality of life that puts it ahead of its rivals by a wide margin. Gloucestershire were runners up, followed by Cornwall, Dorset, Cumbria, Northumberland, Yorkshire, Suffolk, Hampshire, Lancashire and West Sussex.

Statistics were collated from Government Departments, countryside organisations, the Land Registry, the Meteorological Office, the Good Pub Guide and various independent reports, to produce a quality of life index. Points were awarded for categories including:

  • average property price
  • County Councils
  • education
  • sunshine hours
  • tranquility
  • wildlife diversity
  • housing projection figures
  • burglary statistics
  • landscape value
  • National Trust sites
  • sport
  • the arts
  • outstanding pubs.

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The county league table produced several surprises; Cornwall, the poorest county in England excelled for its quality of life, while Northamptonshire with its good hunting and fine churches, was almost at the bottom.

So how did Devon do so well? Devon got off to a good start with its temperate climate and north Devon coastal resorts such as Barnstaple and Bideford rivalling France's Biarritz.

With 300 miles of seashore, Devon has two quite different coasts. There is soft, red arable soil in the south of the county and wetter, soft acid soil in the north. There is an an abundance of native wildlife in the miles of of hedgerows and vast copses of oak and beech.

Devon's great wealth of National Parks includes the bleak beauty of Dartmoor, as well as part of unspoilt Exmoor, and more areas of outstanding natural beauty than any other rival county.

It also has more National Trust properties ranging from medieval cottages to Lutyens Castle Drogo, the last castle to be built in Britain. Devon also scored particularly well on Council services and burglary statistics. It has four exceptional grammar schools and the very successful and popular Exeter University. Although relatively populous, with 1.1 million residents, Devon remains a tranquil county with industry, open mines, large airports and motorways making little impact on the landscape.

Property in Devon, although recently subject to some of the largest increases in the country, is still relatively affordable. People with second homes in Devon have not priced out local people to the same extent as in the most popular parts of Cornwall and the Lake District and plans to build 64,500 new homes will scar Devon's green fields to a lesser extent than in some other counties.

Devon's only failing is the shortage of outstanding regional theatres and galleries but it makes up for that with the number of outstanding pubs - an indicator not only of good beer but the vibrancy of village life, rural prosperity and the quality of local produce, including, of course, the Devon's famous clotted cream!

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Here are links to some of the cultural services the County Council provides and supports:

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Devon County Council, Topsham Road, Exeter, EX2 4QD

Our contact numbers | Tel: 0845 155 1015 | Fax: 0845 155 1003 | SMS: 80011 (please start all messages with the word Devon).

E-mail: customer@devon.gov.uk