Social Worker Assistant

Elysium Healthcare Limited; Sawbridgeworth; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 28,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual salary

Annual leave

Career development

Ely-Vate platform

Wellbeing support

Blue Light Card

Life Assurance

Earned wages access

GP service

Maternity package

Pension

Free meals

Free parking

Job summary

Jacobs Neurological Centre is seeking a Social Worker Assistant in Sawbridgeworth. This role supports assessments and liaises with families and external agencies to identify the best health and wellbeing outcomes for adults with acquired brain injury.

Reporting to a Registered Social Worker, you will help with budgeting, safeguarding, and documentation, and you will assist with social circumstances reports to aid care planning.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work in a team and use initiative.
• Understanding of Mental Capacity Act and safeguarding vulnerable adults.
• Strong computer literacy and administrative skills.
• Good understanding of diverse client needs.
• Ability to maintain accurate records and reports.

Responsibilities

• Carrying out assessments with service users to identify outcomes.
• Liaising with external agencies to progress arrangements.
• Assisting with budgeting and financial arrangements for service users.
• Supporting service users to understand and manage personal budgeting.
• Maintaining timely and accurate records on relevant systems.
• Supporting the Social Worker in their duties.
• Assisting with Community Meeting activities.
• Gathering information for Social Circumstances reports and assessments.
• Covering meetings, telephone calls and patient interviews when needed.

Skills

Excellent communication

Teamwork

Initiative

Resilience

Computer literacy

Understanding Mental Capacity Act

Job description

Are you looking to step into the world of social care where helping some of the most vulnerable people in society is your passion? Then join Jacobs Neurological Centre in Sawbridgeworth as a Social Worker Assistant.

Working 37.5 hours a week, you will join the team at Jacobs Neurological Centre, a purpose-built neurological centre for men and women over the age of 18 years, who have an acquired brain injury).

Reporting to a Registered Social Worker, you will liaise with service users families/significant others as you gather information to assist in carrying out assessments and social circumstances reports to support service users to identify the best outcomes for their health and wellbeing.

From supporting service users health progression to promoting their independence, you will correspond and liaise with external agencies to facilitate and progress arrangements to meet service users set outcomes.

You will be responsible for accompanying service users on community leave and will support them in understanding and managing their personal budgeting and financial arrangements.

As a Social Worker Assistant, you will promote Adult safeguarding throughout the service, this will see you refer any safeguarding issues to a Social Worker/TDT and the Adult Safeguarding Team.

At Elysium a range of training opportunities are available that can see your career grow and you achieve your career aspirations.

As a Social Worker Assistant You Will Be

• Carrying out assessments with service users as directed identifying the best and most appropriate outcomes for the individual
• Corresponding and liaising with external agencies at the request of and on behalf of service users, to facilitate and progress arrangements to meet their individual outcomes (e.g. Housing, Health)
• Assisting service users in understanding and managing their personal budgeting and financial arrangements
• Having a understanding of the Mental Capacity Act and Safeguarding vunerable adults
• Maintaining timely and accurate records on relevant systems
• To aid and support the Social Worker role as required
• Community Meeting support
• Assist with the gathering of information for Social Circumstances reports and social work assessments.
• Complete and Maintain Visitor Records/Paperwork
• Cover meetings/telephone calls/patient interviews when Social Worker is not available.

To Be Successful In This Role, You'll Need

• To have an understanding of the Mental Capacity Act and safeguarding vunerable Adults
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• An understanding of the needs of different client groups
• The ability to work in a team and also use your own initiative
• Resilience, to cope with difficult situations
• Computer literacy and administrative skills

Where You Will Be Working

Location: Jacobs Neurological Centre has total of 82 beds on the same site in Sawbridgeworth (CM21 0HH), which is on the Hertfordshire and Essex border within easy travelling distance of London and Cambridge.

The centre delivers specialist 24-hour nursing and therapy services for people with complex long-term neurological conditions, and brain or spinal injuries who require ongoing support and assistance to maximise functional ability. Recovery is assisted wherever possible, with emphasis placed on maximising each individual's abilities, comfort and quality of life.

Each service has communal lounges, dining rooms, and all bedrooms have en-suite facilities with over 95% on single occupancy. All rooms are adapted to each resident's requirements according to their assessments and needs.

What You’ll Get

• Annual base salary of £25,564.50
• The equivalent of 33 days annual leave (including bank holidays) – plus your birthday off and the option to buy additional annual leave, in our annual selection window.
• Career development and training to help you achieve your professional goals
• Access to our Rewards & Benefits platform Ely-Vate; Your one-stop destination for everyday savings, exclusive benefits, and wellbeing hub!
• Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a healthy work-life balance
• Access to Blue Light Card, which provides a range of exclusive offers and discounts
• Life Assurance, for added peace of mind
• Stream – instant access to earned wages when you need it, plus access to save, directly from your wages, alongside financial wellbeing support.
• 24/7 GP service and second medical opinion, to ensure you are the best you can be
• Enhanced Maternity Package, so you can truly enjoy this special time
• Pension contribution, to help secure your future
• Free meals and onsite free parking

About Your Next Employer

Elysium Health care has over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 80 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move.

Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally.

Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments and is a Disability Confident employer, committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person’s individual responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of service users. All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure

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