Social Worker

My Social Work News; Hereford; On-site; GBP 39,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative recruitment agency is seeking a dedicated Social Worker to join the South Adult Locality Team in Herefordshire. This role offers the chance to make a significant impact on the community by providing essential support and supervision to service users and their families. You will be responsible for ensuring compliance with policies, managing case files, and collaborating with various agencies to facilitate safe hospital discharges. Join a forward-thinking team committed to making a difference in people's lives while enjoying a competitive salary and the opportunity for professional growth.

Qualifications

• Must hold a Social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation is essential.

Responsibilities

• Manage own workload and identify risk issues effectively.
• Provide supervision to Assessment and Enablement Officers.

Skills

Social Work Qualification

Understanding of relevant legislation

Registered or eligible for registration

Education

Social Work Degree

Tools

Mosaic

Job description

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker within the South Adult Locality Team to work Full Time based in Herefordshire.

The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £38,223 per annum.

Responsibilities:

• The social worker has day-to-day responsibility of the prioritisation of their own work and identification of issues of risk.
• The social worker represents the Community Wellbeing Directorate and Hereford Council in their day-to-day activities and will comply with all relevant policy and procedure affecting their role, including safeguarding.
• To provide regular and effective supervision to allocated Assessment and Enablement Officers, as required.
• To ensure any appropriate legal/financial arrangements are correctly in place for the provision of services to service users and carers in liaison with appropriate teams and panels.
• To ensure monitoring and reviewing systems are in place for clients on their caseloads and to ensure case files and electronic recording on Mosaic is current.
• To consider an enabling and strength-based ethos and approach to supporting service users and their families/carers and in joint working with partners and agencies.
• To follow the relevant procedures for ensuring that information and data is collected and recorded accurately to enable reliable analyses and reporting.
• To work in a way that is consistent with Council’s Equal Opportunities, anti-discrimination and anti-oppressive practice policies.
• To undertake day duty and safeguarding duty when required.
• To work in conjunction with the Registration and Inspection Units in monitoring good practice within Local Authority and Independent Sector Residential and Nursing Homes.
• To work with nursing reviewing officers to ensure that under continuing care provision assessment for health services provision are undertaken when appropriate.
• To support hospital discharge arrangements for patients in liaison with hospital based professional staff and relevant agencies/teams to ensure safe discharge and prevention of admission.
• Identify where reablement (and/or other appropriate services) are appropriate and refer to relevant agencies.
• Preparation of assessments and funding recommendations on a weekly basis for consideration by any joint/funding panel. This will include consideration of referral for Continuing Health Care Funding.

Requirements of this Social Worker role:

• A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Registered or eligible for registration.

Contact: This Social Worker job is advertised by Zehnn Young; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients’ requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role.

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.

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