Social Worker - Adults Learning Disabilities

Sanctuary Personnel; Town Of Cambridge; On-site; AUD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A dedicated recruitment agency is seeking an experienced Social Worker for a locum position with a focus on Adults Learning Disabilities in Town Of Cambridge, Australia. This role involves professional leadership for complex cases, assessing the needs of service users and ensuring effective safeguarding. Applicants must hold a relevant degree and have significant frontline experience in Adults Services. The position offers a competitive pay rate of £37 per hour for a full-time, 3-month contract.

Qualifications

• Current Social Work England registration.
• Significant frontline experience in Adults Services.

Responsibilities

• Provide professional leadership for complex cases involving risk and safety.
• Identify service user needs and source appropriate interventions.
• Use analytical skills to inform assessment and decision making.
• Complete support planning to meet budgetary constraints.
• Take the lead on adult safeguarding issues.
• Assess individuals who lack capacity in planning their care.
• Provide complex reports for legal purposes.
• Manage risks and ensure protection from harm.

Education

Degree or equivalent in social work

Tools

Social Work England registration

Job description

Overview

Social Worker - Adults Learning Disabilities

Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency, has an exciting Locum opportunity available for an experienced Social Worker to join a well-established Adults service based in Cambridge.

Team/Specialism: Adults Learning Disabilities

Pay Rate: £37 per hour (assignment rate)

Contract: Locum, 3-Months

Hours: Full-time

Responsibilities

• Provide professional leadership for complex case arrangements, in situations which involve risk, complexity and safety of the service user and others.
• Identify through assessment the needs and strengths of service users and/or family carers and source appropriate solutions and interventions.
• Use analytical skills to inform assessment, decision making and intervention.
• Complete support planning with services users to ensure that outcomes identified at assessment are met within budgetary constraints through the provision of support, equipment, adaptations and enabling programmes.
• Identify and take a professional lead on adult safeguarding issues where abuse or neglect is suspected.
• Take a professional lead and oversee cases of individuals who lack capacity to agree to or plan their care, undertake proportionate assessment in accordance with current Adult Social Care legislation including Mental Capacity Act and Best Interest assessments.
• To provide more specialist social work practice skills and knowledge to make independent decisions and support situations in which risk, ambiguity or complexity is greatest.
• To act as the lead professional to services users and their carers and families to enable them to retain, as far as possible, choice and control of their lives.
• To provide written and verbal reports, appropriate for courts and other legal purposes, which are concise, informative, and based on complex evidence to support problem solving and resolution.
• Support in safeguarding process to assess and manage risk, knowing how to intervene proportionately and ensuring people are protecting from harm, while protecting their human rights.
• Assess and manage risk, knowing how to intervene proportionately and ensuring people are protected from harm, whilst protecting their human rights.

Requirements

• Degree or equivalent in social work
• Current Social Work England registration
• Significant frontline experience in Adults Services

Contact

This Social Worker job is advertised by Rihana Chowdhury; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

We welcome applications from Social Workers who meet the above requirements.

Regretfully we are only able to respond to experienced Social Work candidates who meet these requirements for this Social Work role as we need to meet our clients\' requirements, but please feel free to browse our open roles that may be more suitable for you.

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