Senior Social Worker Learning Disability & Autism Specialist

GHJ, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Senior Social Worker within the Learning Disability & Autism Specialist Service to work full-time based in Medway.

The salary for this Senior Social Worker job is up to £51,130 per annum.

Main duties:

• Manage a caseload of individuals, providing professional social work knowledge and expertise, specifically tailored to supporting individuals with complex learning disabilities and autism.
• Provide quality formal and informal supervision as required to both qualified and unqualified staff in order to support effective and high-quality practice delivery across Adult Social Care.
• Ensure the delivery of high-quality, person-centred care and support, taking a holistic whole family approach to ensure that the person’s needs are met and identify any impact on family members or others in their support network.
• Work closely with colleagues within the council and partners ensuring that person-centred outcomes are met in ways which utilise available resources as effectively as possible within budgetary constraints.
• Represent the local authority in a range of key meetings, panels, and groups, ensuring follow up on agreed actions and work closely with colleagues within the council and external partners ensuring that person-centred outcomes are met in ways which utilise resources as effectively as possible.
• Maintain awareness of changes in legislation and related policies and practices and ensure all social work staff are also informed of these changes to enable consistent and timely implementation. This will include promoting and supporting the Council’s policies and procedures for safeguarding, carrying out duties and work at all times in a way that ensures the safeguarding and welfare of service users.
• To understand and actively keep up to date with GDPR responsibilities, including completing regular refresher training.
• Safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility, all employees are required to act in such a way that safeguards the health and well-being of children and vulnerable adults.
• To participate in the Performance Appraisal process and contribute to the identification of own and team development needs utilising the Career Progression Framework.
• At Manager’s discretion, other activities may be assigned that fit the job description.

Requirements of this Senior Social Worker:

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

Contact:
This Senior 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, GHJ 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. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.

Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

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.