Social Worker - Hospital Early Intervention Team

Location Colchester
Job type Contract
Salary Up to £207 per day
Reference HQ00096603_1570706542

Sanctuary Social Care is currently looking for an experienced and dedicated Social Worker to work full-time within a Hospital in an Early Intervention Team based in Colchester. The ideal candidate will possess highly developed specialist knowledge of social work practice in adults services and be registered with the HCPC.

The pay rate for this locum Social Worker job is £207 per day and is an ongoing contract.

Job Purpose:

  • ECC Adult Social Care, through effective practice, is moving towards a transformational shift from a focus on long-term care support, to a model with four key principles: - prevention; early intervention; enablement and safeguarding.

  • This will enable people, their families and carers to access information and tools, live healthily and independently and for our function an opportunity to respond pro-actively to growing service demand in a sustainable way, within the financial constraints of the Council.

  • Social workers manage a caseload, including assessment of risk and purposeful intervention through direct work, commissioned services and review.

  • Quality assuring interventions and balancing need with finance.

Duties:

  • Assess complex social care needs and provide support to vulnerable adults, which enable them to live healthily and independently.

  • Develop support plans that gain commitment to solutions that drive the care required for each individual's needs.

  • Accountable for working within the statutory legal framework, policy and guidance and determining when the threshold for statutory intervention has been reached.

  • Work collaboratively building effective relationships with internal and external partnerships and stakeholders, and the voluntary sector to assist children and vulnerable people in gaining support for inclusivity from within the community.

  • Accountable for conducting assessments and plan responses to safeguard a child or vulnerable adult include intervention as required.

  • Develop a client centric approach which enables early intervention and prevention and increases independence.

  • Pro-actively influences in a range of planning, decision making and case discussions inter-agency.

  • Work with families, communities and individuals to help people age well supporting the Council's wider strategic aims.

  • Specific individual and shared targets and objectives are defined annually within the performance management framework.

Requirements of the Social Worker:

  • Professional Social Work qualification (e.g. Degree, DipSW, CQSW or CSS).

  • Registered Social Worker with HCPC

  • Extensive post qualifying experience and Hospital experience

  • Ability to demonstrate practice in accordance with professional standards

  • Experience of developing strong working relationships with partners, other agencies and the voluntary sector to deliver improved outcomes.

  • Evidence of continuing professional development and demonstrable capability of practice in accordance with current professional standards e.g. professional capability framework, knowledge and skills statement.

  • Experience within a social care setting with evidence of challenging social and family situations.

  • Strong communication skills and an ability to develop a rapport and engage with diverse groups of individuals.

  • Developing strong relationships with partners, other agencies and the local community to achieve joint objectives and offer a supportive framework for children and vulnerable adults.

  • Understand the financial implications of care packages commissioned

  • Evidence of clear decision making in order to highlight and limit the potential risks associated with intervention.

Contact:

This Social Worker job is advertised by Sam Jewell; 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.

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 by contacting us. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.