Social Worker - Learning Disability Partnership
| Posting date: | 17 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | £28.46 per hour |
| Additional salary information: | per hour PAYE depending on experience |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 June 2024 |
| Location: | HUNTINGDON, PE29 3AD |
| Company: | Triumph Consultants Ltd |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | CCC (HQ) CCC17616 |
Summary
What's involved with this role:
Interim Social Worker - Learning Disability Partnership
Reference no: CCC (HQ) CCC17616
Pay Rate: up to £28.46 per hour PAYE depending on experience
37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 3 months
City: HUNTINGDON
Enhanced DBS disclosure required
Social Workers will endorse and act in accordance with the principles of personalisation, ensuring that care and support are person-centred and as far as possible put the people with whom they work in control of their lives. In doing so they will carry out assessments of need, plan and deliver services and review outcomes with the individual, their personal networks and support providers.
Key Responsibilities
Provide professional leadership for complex case arrangements, in situations which involve, risk, complexity and safety of the service user and others.
Identifying through assessment the needs and strengths of service users and/or family carers and source appropriate solutions and interventions.
Use analytical skills to inform assessment, decision making and intervention.
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.
Identify and take a professional lead on adult safeguarding issues where abuse or neglect is suspected.
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.
Provide more specialist social work practice skills and knowledge to make independent decisions and support situations in which risk, ambiguity or complexity is greatest.
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.
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.
Support in safeguarding process to assess and manage risk, knowing how to intervene proportionately and ensuring people are protecting from harm, while protecting their human rights
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If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, we cannot, unfortunately, respond to all applications. If, therefore, you have not heard from us within 3 days please make a working assumption that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles
Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.
Qualifications:
Recognised Social Worker qualification
Relevant specialist post qualifying and or post graduate training.
Current Social Work England registration
Knowledge:
Proven knowledge, experience and understanding of needs of vulnerable adults including environmental factors and risk and protective factors.
Knowledge of relevant safeguarding legislation, statutory guidance, and procedures.
Knowledge of the personalisation agenda – applying creative problem solving to maximise independence.
Experience:
Proven previous experience of summarising, analysing, and evaluating complex information.
Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
Experience of identifying and assessing need, formulating, and implementing effective social work interventions
Experience of using information management systems to produce good quality data in a variety of formats.
Experience of negotiating to reach a resolution
Experience of successfully effecting change
Broad range of experience in multi-agency working
Skills & Abilities:
Excellent communication and negotiation skills including the ability to deal with complex issues in a sensitive and appropriate manner.
Excellent IT skills and ability to use a variety of IT devices, systems, and databases.
Ability to work from a variety of locations and travel countywide.
Ability to formulate and implement effective social work interventions focused on outcomes.
Ability to lead and direct team members regarding professional practice and social work interventions.
Ability to write concise reports and have excellent verbal communication skills
Ability to create a rapport and build relationships with clients and their families
Ability to prioritise tasks, manage own workload and be accountable for case work
Able to work with a person centred, strengths-based approach.
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Job Ref: CCC (HQ) CCC17616
Anticipated Length of Assignment: Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.
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