Advanced Social Worker – Adult Home First & Urgent Reponse Team

Global Healthcare Jobs, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for an Advanced Social Worker within the Adult Home First & Urgent Response Team to work full time based in Swindon.

The salary for this permanent Advanced Social Worker job is up to £46,549 per annum.

Main duties:

• Providing support and leadership to our expanding team of both Social Workers and Assistant Care Managers within the intermediate care services.
• A dynamic approach, with a passion for developing the service, embedding strength based practice and with support of the management team upskilling the workforce to both manage risk and provide better outcomes for the people we support.
• Undertaking Adult Safeguarding Enquiry Manager role and offering support to the team when undertaking the Enquiry Officers roles to safeguard adults with care and support needs, who are at risk of abuse or neglect, with the aim of identifying and mitigating risks to ensure the person retains choice and control over their life.
• Assess individuals who have maximised their independence through an intermediate care provision, and arrange and coordinate ongoing support in their own home, or a place they call home.
• Undertaking a strength-based approach when completing Care Act Assessments and Support Plans for individuals that are receiving reablement, pre-assessment or D2A support.
• Arrange and coordinate ongoing support (post assessment) for the individual, including Carers Assessments of relevant.
• Support to complete complex Medical capacity assessments, best interest decisions and chair best interests meetings.
• Ensuring a comprehensive handover to the net allocated team and all ongoing referrals.
• To work closely with existing primary and secondary health, together with tertiary voluntary agencies to provide holistic and individualised care plan.

Requirements of this role:

• Social work qualification with registration with Social Work England.
• Experience in managing social work caseloads and supervising others.
• Experience of community and/or group work.
• Knowledge of children’s health and social care systems, agencies, and relevant legislation.

Contact:
This Advanced 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, Global Healthcare Jobs 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.

Global Healthcare Jobs 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, Global Healthcare Jobs 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.