Experienced Social Worker – Intake & Assessment Team

Global Healthcare Jobs, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for an Experienced Social Worker within the Intake & Assessment Team to work full time based in Cardiff.

The salary for this Experienced Social Worker job is up to £42,890 per annum.

Main duties:

• To review and update knowledge of legal, policy and procedural frameworks and demonstrate professional competence in social work practice as laid down in the Code of Practice for Social Workers.
• To work with individuals, families, carer groups and communities to help them make informed decisions, enabling them to clarify and express their needs and contribute to service panning.
• To assist users to enhance their independence and coping skills.
• To assess needs, risks and opinions, taking into account legal and other requirements, including child protection and protection of vulnerable adults.
• To assess, identify, plan, implement and review the circumstances of individuals and their families and the need for procedural and legal intervention to meet their immediate needs.
• To work actively with carers to identify and meet their support needs.
• To prepare for and participate in decision-making forums.
• To manage and prioritise the workload, carry out duties using accountable professional judgement.
• To monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of work, using professional and managerial supervision and support to improve practice.
• To contribute to the identification and agreement of outcomes required of the service.
• To work in multidisciplinary and multi organisational teams and contribute to policy review and development of best practice.
• To work with colleagues to agree a team approach to individual cases.
• To participate in duty rotas as appropriate.
• To record unmet or inappropriately met needs in line with Council policy and procedure.
• To participate in supervision, appraisal and team meetings, identifying issues and possible solutions where discussion and decision required.
• To work within budget framework of the service to identify specific packages of care to respond to individual assessments.
• To offer specific advice to social workers and other care professionals in areas of specialist knowledge.

Requirements of this Experienced Social Worker job:

• A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Continual professional development.
• Social Work England registered.

Contact:
This Experienced Social Worker job is advertised by Stefan Garrett; 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