Social Worker Children with Disabilities

Social Worker Children with Disabilities Closing in 15 days (9 February, 2026)
Job details

Salary: £37,280 to £41,771 per annum

Department:
Social Care

Working pattern:
Full Time

Location:

Yeovil

• We promote a healthy work-life balance and offer flexible working arrangements wherever possible, including working from home.
• Opportunity to improve the outcomes for disabled children, young people, and their families across East Somerset.
• At Somerset Council, we are proud to support our frontline workers with access to innovative AI technology. Our greatest asset is our dedicated workforce, and we need to ensure we evolve with technology and new ways to invest in them. We’re currently utilising Magic Notes, which has proven to help social workers reduce the amount of time spent on administrative work, allowing them to focus on using their skillset and creativity to support our shared vision of improving the life chances and outcomes for children in Somerset.

Let’s be honest being a social worker isn’t the job you always thought it might be. There’s paperwork , panels, planning, policies, and procedures (amongst other things, we ran out of P’s!) yet we still get to spend time with children and their families. That is the joy we get from our job - working with these brilliant children who have additional needs who teach us something new every day (like all children do!).

We know that many of you will not have considered working for Children with Disabilities (CWD) before, thinking you may not have the right skills knowledge or experience. We’ll teach you what you need to know. Others may think the work is mundane or less dynamic than other areas of social work, they're wrong! For a start, the work itself is fascinating, varied and rewarding.

Here’s what one of our team had to say about it:

“Even if looked for a job elsewhere, it would still be CWD. I love the complexity. You have to work harder to understand what is happening for children, you have to be more creative and 'think outside the box' to get the best outcomes for children with additional needs.