Social Work Practitioner – Transitions Team (Lifelong Services)

Global Healthcare Jobs, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Work Practitioner within the Transitions Team (Lifelong Services) Team to work full time based in West Sussex.

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

Main duties:

• Act as a senior professional representative for the service by working with a focus on ensuring the effective delivery of services to those people who access or need the service.
• Manage and advise on complex cases within a specialist area including working alongside many other agencies, dealing with complex family dynamics, managing complex risk levels and dealing with legal issues. This will include effectively leading on the most efficient use of resources to produce the appropriate outcome and staff management.
• Take a lead and proactive role within the discipline of a specialist area, this may involve being a dedicated representative for a particular forum or being at the fore front of developments within a particular field.
• Develop effective working relationships and communicate effectively with those people who access or need the service, families, carers, colleagues and other professionals in order to deliver the appropriate interventions and service delivery.
• Responsible for promoting a strengths-based approach in both your own practice and that of the whole team; and for the application of creativity in support planning in exploring all potential options for meeting needs and outcomes, and consideration of the availability of resources across the service.
• Represent the service at events and meetings with external agencies, making commitments as directed and agreed.
• Maintain accurate records of all work undertaken and produce case reports and correspondence for a variety of audiences including, meetings, conferences, court, panels and other agencies. Monitor colleagues’ record-keeping as part of supervision.
• Responsible for the care of, accuracy confidentiality, security and maintenance of all individuals records and related manual and/or computerised information, including highly sensitive and confidential adults/child protection issues.

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 Social Work Practitioner 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.