Senior Social Worker – Adults Localities & Hospital Team

Global Healthcare Jobs, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Senior Social Worker within the Adults Locality Team to work full time based in Bexley/

The salary for this permanent Senior Social Worker job is up to £44,628 per annum

Main duties:

• To demonstrate understanding of the Council’s Customer Care Standards and ensure that these standards are met in order to deliver the Council vision of putting residents first.
• To use social work knowledge and skills to support children, young adults and their families.
• Accepting client cases, as allocated by the manager, in line with the departmental protocols for case allocation and workload management.
• Working with those clients who are the most vulnerable, or at the most risk and will be expected to have a higher degree of professional autonomy and accountability for their work.
• Managing your own workload, with support from the manager in a way in a way which: ensures professional best practice and integrity at all times, recognises the individual needs of each child/adult, and the importance of their family/carers.
• Is efficient in the use of the service’s resources and effective in the terms of outcomes and in meeting the department’s key performance targets and demonstrate the ability to work at a consistent high standard.
• Employing whatever professional social work methods or techniques are relevant to the needs of the situation and of a level of skill expected of a senior social worker.
• Assessing for and identifying eligible needs, deploying resources which maintain and promote children and young adult’s welfare/independent that may include, for example, respite/domiciliary care, support to carers or other appropriate services. Reviewing to ensure services remain appropriate to need.
• Accessing and optimising the use of resources provided by other statutory and voluntary organisations in meeting a child/adults needs.
• To ensure vulnerable children/adults are protected by identifying circumstances where abuse may occur, or is occurring, and working collaboratively with others within the framework of the multi-agency safeguarding procedures to protect vulnerable children/adults.
• To participate in planning for team and individuals which reflect service planning priorities.
• Maintain knowledge of the current Team Plan and understanding of own contribution in order to ensure delivery of this plan.
• Complete other reasonable tasks in order to fulfil role purpose or as instructed by management.

Requirements of this Senior Social Worker job:

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

Contact:
This Senior Social Worker 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.