Social Worker

5 Star Recruitment; Borough of Wyre; In loco; GBP 32.000 - 44.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

5 Star Recruitment is seeking a qualified social worker to provide a strengths-based assessment service across community and hospital settings. You will deliver professional social work with statutory responsibilities, prioritising independence and recovery for adults (excluding adult mental health).

You will work collaboratively with health colleagues and other agencies to ensure safe discharges and appropriate service placement, while maintaining high quality assessments and care plans in

Competenze

• Knowledge of general social work practice and legislation.
• Experience in assessing needs, risk and planning care with individuals.
• Good IT literacy and ability to use ICT systems for record keeping.

Mansioni

• Provide a professional social work service with statutory responsibilities.
• Contribute to strengths-based, outcome-focused service delivery.
• Collaborate with professionals to address complex needs and promote independence.
• Support safe and timely discharges from hospital in collaboration with health colleagues.
• Contribute to high quality assessments and support plans with persons and carers.

Conoscenze

Social work knowledge

Team collaboration

Communication skills

Formazione

DipSW or Social Work Degree

Strumenti

Liquid Logic

Descrizione del lavoro

To provide a strengths based, outcome focussed assessment service to all adults (with the exception of adult mental health) across community and hospital settings.

The post holder will be required to:

• Provide a professional social work service, including statutory social care responsibilities
• Contribute to service delivery that is strengths based and outcome focussed with an emphasis on promoting independence and enabling recovery
• Work collaboratively with other professionals and agencies to address complex needs and achieve the most ideal outcomes for individuals and their carers that supports their choice and independence
• Work collaboratively with health colleagues to ensure safe and timely discharges from hospital, to the most appropriate service and setting for the individual
• To contribute to the delivery of strengths based social care service as outlined in national legislation and guidance and in line with county policies and procedures
• To contribute to the provision of high quality assessments and support plans for individuals, in consultation with the person and their carer.
• To work collaboratively with health colleagues to ensure safe and timely discharges from hospital the most appropriate service and setting for the individual that actively supports their choice and independence.
• To promote the creative and flexible use of personal budgets to appropriately meet the needs of customers and carers
• To communicate effectively with customers, carers, other agencies and professionals to support the delivery of a co-ordinated response to customer and carer needs
• To effectively prioritise and manage your caseload.
• To keep accurate records in relation to the contact and work undertaken, using electronic record systems (Liquid Logic) and other relevant ICT systems.
• To contribute to effective team working and to service development and to work with management to identify improvements that could be introduced to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the Directorate
• To undertake continuous professional development including attendance at formal training

Person specification

Qualifications

• SW, CSS, DipSW or Social Work Degree

Current HCPC registration

Experience

• Accepting referrals.
• Gathering information.
• Assessing the needs of individuals and their families
• Work in a Social Services Directorate or other Statutory or Voluntary Agency.
• Work with a range of client groups within an Agency
• Managing a caseload
• Determining priorities
• Working as a member of a team

Knowledge, skills and abilities

• Knowledge of legislation relating to general social work
  practice
• Experience in assessing and analyising need and risk and
  planning care with individuals.
• Experience in working effectively with other agencies and
  professionals.
• Working understanding of relevant legislation and its
  application and ability to work within legal framework and
  accountability.
• IT literate, experience in using manual and computer systems
  for record keeping.
• Negotiating and networking with a range of professionals.
  Numerate and able to contribute to management of budgets
  and resources.
• Organisational skills, able to prioritise and manage a generic
  case load and work independently under pressure.
• A demonstrable understanding and acceptance of the
  principles underlying equal opportunities and diversification
  and a commitment to achieving these.
• Effective written and oral communication skills appropriate to
  the situation.
• A commitment to improving practice standards and personal
  competencies through continuous professional development, and use of supervision and appraisal to improve personal performance.

A commitment to improving practice standards and personal competencies through continuous professional development,and use of supervision and appraisal to improve personalperformance.