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Graduate Social Work Jobs

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Start salary: £21,000 - £25,000
Professional salary: £30,000 - £42,000
Required Qualifications: Bachelors or Masters in Social work approved by the GSCC.
Jobs available: 2,728,000 people work in social care around the UK, a rise of 2.3% from last year.

Social work is a career in the front line that is both emotionally rewarding and mentally challenging for graduates. It is perhaps best summed up by the strap line from the government's social care recruitment campaign: "Social work is about people, it's as simple and complicated as that."
Social workers are a professional group within the care sector, and the term can only be used by people who are registered and have a formal professional qualification. The sector serves two million users accessing over 30,000 provider organisations. Local authorities employ a third of the workforce and most of the rest are employed in the private and voluntary sectors. Increasing numbers of workers are self-employed.

 


 

Graduate Social Work Case Studies

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Bryony Gilbert - Graduate Management Trainee - National Skills Academy

I am participating in the National Skills Academy for Social Care’s graduate trainee scheme. Through the scheme I was placed with a social care organisation, and was then fortunate enough to secure a secondment as acting deputy manager of a residential home. ... more

Nikki Barell - Graduate Management trainee in Adult Social Care - National Skills Academy

I am currently on a year long graduate management scheme in adult social care with the National Skills Academy for Social Care. This involves me splitting my time between the national charity The Princess Royal Trust for Carers and the local charity Blackburn with Darwen Carers Centre... ... more

Rowena Jones - Graduate Management trainee in Adult Social Care - National Skills Academy

I am currently on a year-long graduate management trainee scheme in adult social care, run by the National Skills Academy. During the twelve months I am based within a host organisation in order to gain first hand experience of leadership and management... ... more

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Rebecca Patel - VCS Strategy Co-Ordinator

I work within the voluntary and community sector (VCS), commonly known as the Third Sector and my position is an enabling position to bring together VCS organisations, including vulnerable Black and Ethnic Minority groups, together with Children and Young People’s Services to address identified issues such as safeguarding and child protection, in order to enable a healthy and dynamic sector. ... more

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Graduate Social Work Advice

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Routes Into Social Work

Take a look at the different routes into social work... more

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Do You Care?

Who’d want to be a social worker, eh? You’d have to want to... more

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Who's Hiring?

Your guide to who has jobs, who wants interns and who needs trainees.... more

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The Caring Profession

Social care can be an extremely rewarding area of work to go into. However,... more

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