Lead Social Worker

Lead Social Worker | Up to £45000 per annum + Great benefits

Sector: Nursing & Care

Type: Permanent

Location: North West

Main Purpose

Over-sees and leads all Social Worker activity. Co-ordinates, negotiates, and manages the mandatory processes and procedures to ensure the unit’s compliance with current legislation and statutory regulation; taking appropriate action to preserve the psycho-social and socio-economic circumstances of assigned clients attending Priory units; needs assessments of clients and their families and identification of relevant resources pre and post discharge.

Key Accountabilities

1. To conduct a comprehensive and objective evaluation of the client’s current status, environment, and functional abilities, including risk assessment of clients, staff, and the wider community.
2. Manages, monitors, and reviews an assigned caseload ascertaining the socio-economic circumstances of clients, ensuring that the relevant people are made aware of the clients' situations. Maintains accurate and timely records detailing each patient’s rehabilitation/progress.
3. To take the lead on POVA or Child Protection issues and take appropriate action with those statutory services. To apply working knowledge of statutory and company policies and procedures to set a strategy for protecting potentially vulnerable clients.
4. Assists and supports colleagues and relatives in understanding and interpreting changes in legislation and statutory regulations.
5. To collaborate and to act as the main contact between relatives, agencies, and other official organisations co-ordinating negotiations and communications regarding admissions, discharges, and long-term needs.
6. To co-ordinate health, rehabilitation, social service, medico-legal, and voluntary agencies to ensure an individually tailored programme is provided for each client, to establish the necessary level of care and to liaise with external agencies to help obtain the funding and services necessary to meet ongoing needs.
7. Responsible for the supervision and practice teaching of students and trainees assigned to the unit.