Why choose social care jobs in Walsall?

Walsall is a thriving town in one of the nation’s most historic regions, with a proud tradition of cultural, community, creative and industrial diversity.

With easy access to major cities and to the countryside, a wide variety of attractively priced housing stock and a huge range of schools and other amenities for families and young people, Walsall is set to deliver a great future for residents - old and new alike.

Walsall’s surprising diversity of rural and urban areas include the Walsall Arboretum, the Beacon Regional Park and over 20 miles of canals - providing facilities for boating, walking and cycling. The town also boasts a wealth of entertainment and sporting facilities, an important Art Gallery and a number of museums.

Working for Walsall

Walsall social care and Inclusion is focused on modernisation. Improving how we deliver services, and improving the quality of what we deliver to those in need, is at the heart of all we do.

Now we’re actively recruiting people who can help us meet the challenges of our development programme and actively promote our departments and the services we offer.

You don’t have to be fully qualified to register your interest in Walsall. The link will take you through an unqualified link also, please inform us when you will be completing your qualification. Once you’ve registered, we’ll be in touch with you to arrange the next steps – one of which could be an interview with someone from our recruitment team.

Rewards and benefits

We want to attract the very best talent. Our generous benefits package reflects our commitment to hiring superb people.

·£1,500 golden hello

Offered to all qualified social workers, and paid on completion of a probation period.

Training

At Walsall we take care to ensure we provide comprehensive staff development opportunities. Investing in our people is crucial to ensuring Walsall Council remains a high quality organisation, trusted and supported by staff and the communities we serve.

We are committed to continued investment in training, and to facilitating an ethos that promotes the value of learning and achievement.

We also provide our people with:

Flexible working conditions
Local Government Pension Scheme
Reduced car parking scheme
Casual car and essential car user allowance
Annual discounted travel card scheme
Family friendly policies
Discounted insurance rates to employees
Employee assistance scheme

For more information on these and other aspects of our benefits packages, see the Job Shop pages

Living in Walsall

Walsall offers a chance to satisfy a huge range of personal tastes and needs: whether or not you have a family; if you like green open spaces or prefer the buzz of urban living; whether you prefer modern design or a more traditional home.

More information about housing in Walsall, and prices of bought or rented accommodation can be found at these sites:

For schools and other family-oriented information, follow the links below:

Contact us

Strategic Recruitment Team
3rd Floor, Civic Centre
Darwall Street
Walsall
WS1 1TP
Telephone 01922 655673
Textphone 0845 111 2910
Email recruitment@walsall.gov.uk

This page was last updated on 19 June 2009