Social Worker – Adults Safeguarding Team

Are you an experienced Social Worker looking for an opportunity to truly transform lives? Look no further! At Global Healthcare Jobs, we understand the immense impact you can make, and we are here to support you every step of the way. As a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency we believe in the power of personal connections. We are seeking Social Workers with UK experience to join our team and embark on a fulfilling journey with us. Let’s connect and explore the incredible possibilities that lie ahead for you.

Location: South Shields

Team/Specialism: Adults Safeguarding

Day Rate: £202.17

Why work with us?

• Personalized Support: At Global Healthcare Jobs, we believe in building strong relationships. Connect with us and benefit from your own dedicated consultant with extensive experience in recruiting social work roles in both the public and private sectors. We provide tailored guidance to ensure your success.
• Exclusive Benefits: Join us and enjoy a range of exclusive benefits that enhance your professional journey. We offer a fully online and paperless registration service, free DBS and compliance service, and access to paid mandatory e-learning and practical training modules (if applicable). Additionally, we provide exclusive access to fully managed service social work projects (some outside IR35) with high rates of pay, flexible working options, support from experienced social work practitioners, accommodation assistance (if applicable), retention bonuses (if applicable), and extensive equipment provided.
• Career Development: We prioritize your growth and revalidation/registration renewal based on your length of service. We also offer a £250 refer-a-friend bonus once your referral has worked 100 hours (uncapped – T&Cs apply) and a find your own job bonus of £250 for bringing your own position to us. Access our online career’s hub for further development opportunities.
• Smooth Payroll Process: Enjoy the convenience of daily payroll and our reliable in-house payroll system. We ensure timely and hassle-free payments, so you can focus on making a difference.

Main duties:

• Work alongside and in partnership with individuals, families and carers using a range of interpersonal and communication skills to comprehensively assess highly complex psychosocial need and risk, set objectives, develop care plans and deliver appropriate interventions.
• Provide person centred assessment of need at a level of complexity appropriate to the role, such as multiple social or health needs, complex care, and support arrangements, as allocated by your line manager and where requested.
• Work with people in crisis, promoting, enabling, and empowering individuals, families and carers through representation of rights; advocacy; nurturing strengths and capacities to make informed choices about highly complex life decisions.
• Network and liaise with other professionals and external organisations to provide services to individuals, families and carers and to challenge and question when necessary in the best interests of the user.
• Support people to receive support and treatment in the community rather than inpatient settings and to arrange effective discharge pathways, facilitating community connections, housing and discharge arrangements.
• Use active listening skills, observation and communication to develop supportive and therapeutic relationships with adults, their families and informal networks, exploring their situation with them and looking together for ways to move forward.
• Support and constructively challenge them to think about the social factors within their lives and help them establish their own goals for positive change, providing people with advice and the tools to achieve their aspirations.
• Refer, liaise, consult and work effectively with all relevant agencies and other professionals in order to help meet identified needs, bridging the gap between health and social care.
• Provide professional support and information, guidance and advice on how their needs could be partly or wholly met by universal and other non-care services.
• Work closely with the person or their carer to develop an agreed care and support plan to achieve the identified outcomes, promoting the delivery of strengths-based approaches to support planning, maximising on an individual’s strengths and community / family resources.
• Ensure care and support plans are person centred, capture the person voice and promote the independence, overall safety and well-being of adults and where relevant children.
• Support people to achieve a sustainable recovery, be independent and be discharged from services on a long-term basis, relying instead on their own support mechanisms and other measures they have put in place to prevent relapse.
• Proactively work towards embedding personalisation into practice including but not limited to individual budgets, direct payments, self-assessment and self-directed support. Practice and support planning will be focused on outcomes rather than service driven.
• Undertake reviews of support packages as required ensuring the right level of support is delivered only for as long as is needed and at a reasonable cost, advising the person and their carers’ of alternative support as appropriate.
• Take professional responsibility for managing a case load, including adults with complex problems and whose circumstances may place their personal liberty or safety at risk.
• Provide written reports and support plan to represent individual and carers needs and ensure you maintain a high level of data quality for all information recorded, ensuring that the information is timely, accurate and complete.
• Provide a commitment to knowing the community you serve and develop links and opportunities within it and liaise with local, universal and other services to promote access to them by people with care and support needs and carers.
• Ensure the proactive and appropriate positive management of risk with people, their families and carers

Requirements of the Social Worker:

• Degree or equivalent in social work
• Current Social Work England registration
• Significant frontline experience in Adults Services within the UK

Contact:

This Social Worker job is advertised by Nathan Rowe. If you are interested in this position, please click above to apply now.

We welcome applications from Social Workers who meet the above requirements.

Please note that while we regretfully can only respond to experienced Social Work candidates who meet the specified requirements for this role, we encourage you to explore our open roles that may be more suitable for you.

Reasonable Adjustments:

At Global Healthcare Jobs, we value inclusivity and diversity. If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustments 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.

Transform lives and make a difference as a Social Worker with Global Healthcare Jobs. Apply now to embark on an exceptional career journey!