Social Worker - Adults Learning Disabilities

Sanctuary Personnel; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an experienced Social Worker for a rewarding locum position in Adults Learning Disabilities. This role offers the chance to lead complex case arrangements, ensuring the safety and well-being of service users while providing them with the support they need. You'll utilize your analytical skills to inform assessments and decisions, and take the lead on safeguarding issues. This is a fantastic opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of adults with learning disabilities, all within a supportive and professional environment. If you are passionate about social work and want to contribute positively to the community, this role is for you.

Qualifications

• Degree in social work and current registration required.
• Significant frontline experience in Adults Services is essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership for complex case arrangements involving risk and safety.
• Identify needs of service users and source appropriate solutions.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Leadership

Safeguarding

Assessment Skills

Decision Making

Education

Degree in Social Work

Current Social Work England Registration

Job description

Social Worker - Adults Learning Disabilities

Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and nearly 1000 reviews 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

Main Duties:

1. Provide professional leadership for complex case arrangements, in situations which involve risk, complexity and safety of the service user and others.
2. Identifying through assessment the needs and strengths of service users and/or family carers and source appropriate solutions and interventions.
3. Use analytical skills to inform assessment, decision making and intervention.
4. 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.
5. Identify and take a professional lead on adult safeguarding issues where abuse or neglect is suspected.
6. 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.
7. Provide more specialist social work practice skills and knowledge to make independent decisions and support situations in which risk, ambiguity or complexity is greatest.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. Support in safeguarding process to assess and manage risk, knowing how to intervene proportionately and ensuring people are protected from harm, while protecting their human rights.

Requirements of the Social Worker:

1. Degree or equivalent in social work
2. Current Social Work England registration
3. 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.

Reasonable Adjustments:

If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.