Adult Duty Social Worker

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for an Adult Duty Social Worker to work full time based in Harrow.

The salary for this permanent Adult Duty Social Worker job is up to £40,223 per annum.

Main duties:

• To work in a strengths-based way with adults and their families and carers, including those who are terminally ill. This includes working with multi-disciplinary colleagues, providing advice and information, working with community supports and liaison with other agencies, seeking the help of other professionals as necessary.
• To have person centred conversations with people and carers in a timely way evaluating the level of risk and an evidence-based analysis of need whilst promoting independence in accordance with agreed criteria and divisional policies.
• To assess for and provide equipment and minor adaptations to promote independence, and to monitor these as necessary, seeking advice where appropriate.
• To maintain and take responsibility for effectively managing a personal caseload including complex cases in consultation with the Team Manager.
• To work as a member of a multi-disciplinary team liaising with other professionals including health and the voluntary sector ensuring that there is the fullest co-operation with other team members, to provide an easily accessible service geared to meeting people’s needs.
• To ensure, along with other colleagues in other parts of the department, that people and their carers are involved in all decisions and advocates are recommended where appropriate.
• To assist in the planning of services in consultation with other professionals, to enable people to maintain as independent as possible.
• To liaise with staff throughout social services as well as other departments of the local authority and to liaise with statutory, voluntary, and independent organisations to ensure that working relationships are maintained, developed, and strengthened.
• To assist relevant managers in keeping with their allocated budgets and resources.
• To seek advice and guidance on matters that need resolution and report shortfalls in services to line managers.
• To offer advice to other workers within the multi-disciplinary team where a social worker has a particular level of skill or knowledge.
• To undertake any other duties that may be required commensurate with the general grade of responsibility of the post.

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 Adult Duty 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.