Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for an Adult Senior Social Worker within the Hospital Team to work full time based in Hull.
The salary for this permanent Senior Social Worker job is up to £40,221per annum.
Main duties:
- To promote and safeguard the welfare of adults at risk, families and their carers, within the making safeguarding personal principals.
- Undertake proportionate assessments, determine eligibility, and assess risk. Plan care and support and make the best use of available resources to enable people to live the life they choose. To ensure people are given correct financial advice and information about changing processes of the council.
- Works in partnership with Occupational therapy and Physiotherapy utilising their expertise in the assessment and review process. To assess, identify and source low level OT equipment where this could support an individual to live independently or as part of a wider package of care. To undertake role as an Equipment Trusted Assessor.
- Engages in critical reflection and constrictive challenge within the course of working with colleagues, other agencies and with vulnerable adults and families.
- Actively engages in team meetings/practice forums and other relevant meetings ensuring focused and purposeful social work is undertaken with all cases.
- Works with colleagues in the team to ensure the form of communications are clear and aligned with people’s needs. Demonstrate effective use of evidence-based social work practice. To ensure effective communication with people who have specific communication needs including learning disability, dementia, people who lack capacity and people with sensory impairment. Making sure advocacy arrangements are suitably in place.
- Works with colleagues in the team to ensure that case recording is up to date and that required information is available for a variety of purposes e.g. Multi-Agency meetings, strategy meetings, panels, court, case conferences etc.
- Engages in and advises on the professional decision-making process with adults at risk, families and their carers, and colleagues in relation to complex/high risk cases.
- Engages in and advises on the professional decision-making process with adults at risk, families and their carers, and colleagues in relation to complex/high risk cases. Occasionally deputises for the Practice Lead Manager.
- Provides day-to-day supervision of staff and contributes to practice education of any social work student attached to the team. Supports the leadership team in the development of the team.
- Takes a leadership role in managing the daily activity of the team, i.e allocation, duty work.
Requirements of a Senior Social Worker:
- A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
- Understanding of relevant legislation.
- Registered or eligible for registration.
- Experience in a Manager/Supporting Manager role.
Contact:
This Senior 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.
