Social Worker, Adult Community Team, Fenlands

Location Cambridge
Job type Permanent
Salary £38,258 - 40,958 per year
Reference 212813

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker within the Adult Community Team to work full time based in Fenlands, Cambridgeshire.

The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £40,958 per annum.

Main duties:

  • Provide professional leadership for complex case arrangements, in situations which involve, risk, complexity and safety of the service user and others.
  • Identifying through assessment the needs and strengths of service users and/or family carers and source appropriate solutions and interventions.
  • Use analytical skills to inform assessment, decision making and intervention.
  • Complete support planning with services users to ensure that outcomes identified at assessment are met within budgetary constraints through the provision of support, equipment, adaptations and enabling programmes.
  • Identify and take a professional lead on adult safeguarding issues where abuse or neglect is suspected.
  • Take a professional lead and oversee cases of individuals who lack capacity to agree or plan their care, undertake proportionate assessment in accordance with current Adult Social Care legislation including Mental Capacity Act and Best Interest assessments.
  • To provide more specialist social work practice skills and knowledge to make independent decisions and support situations in which risk, ambiguity or complexity is greatest.
  • To act as the lead professional to services users and their carers and families to enable them to retain, as far as possible, choice and control of their lives.
  • Represent Cambridgeshire County Council at a community level and by working jointly with key partner agencies to enable independence and source appropriate solutions for service users.
  • To contribute to the development of integrated services and policy and to promote new ways of developing service user care, taking account of resources constraints and national initiatives.
  • To take a key role in promoting and developing service user empowerment and recognise diversity and anti-discriminatory practice in all professional practice in the team.
  • Share knowledge and expertise with peers to support the development of a confident and skilled workforce.
  • Provide supervision or mentoring to a non-registered professional, a student social worker, or an apprentice social worker, or a newly qualified social worker where this is required and appropriate.

Requirements of this Social Worker role:

  • A professional Social Work qualification or equivalent.
  • Understanding of relevant legislation.
  • Registered or eligible for registration.

Contact:
This 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, Sanctuary Personnel 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.

Sanctuary 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, Sanctuary 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.