Social Worker - Adult East Locality Team (28 Hours)

Location Newbury
Job type Permanent
Salary £32,076 - 41,418 per year
Consultant Zehnn Young
Call +44 7723 457338
Reference 206096

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker within the Adult East Locality Team to work Part Time (28 Hours) in Berkshire.

The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £41,418per annum.

Main duties:

  • To comply with the requirements of Social Work England.
  • To provide people with good quality advice and information relating to care and support.
  • When relevant, to work with people to connect them to community resources.
  • When necessary, to work with people in crisis to stabilise their situation.
  • When necessary, to work with people to meet long-term care and support needs.
  • When necessary, to review care and support arrangements.
  • Where appropriate, to arrange Direct Payments.
  • To undertake supervisory functions as directed by the Team Leader.
  • To ensure that service users are safeguarded by acting in line with the Care Act and Mental Capacity Act.
  • To assist service users and carers to construct a Support Plan which meets their needs, outcomes and covers identified risks. In doing so, offering the widest possible flexibility and choice through comprehensive engagement with the family, the community, activities, voluntary organisations, and provider services.
  • To ensure that all records/reports, in whatever format, are completed thoroughly and accurately.
  • To promote equality as an integral part of the role and to treat everyone with fairness and dignity.
  • To recognise health and safety is a responsibility of every employee, to take reasonable care of self and others and to comply with the WBC Health and Safety policy and any service-specific procedures/rules that apply to this role.
  • To ensure that own practice is of the required standard by knowing and implementing relevant policies procedures and guidance.
  • To actively participate in supervision and appraisal, and relevant training.
  • The post holder is responsible for identifying and recommending services or expenditure to meet people’s care and support needs.

Requirements of this Social Worker role:

  • A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
  • Understanding of relevant legislation.
  • Registered or eligible for registration.

Benefits:

  • Flexible working wherever possible between the hours of 07.00-19.00
  • Hybrid working wherever possible working 40% in the office
  • Access to a wide range of training and development opportunities
  • Generous Local Government pension scheme
  • Family friendly policies
  • A range of local discounts
  • Wellbeing Programme including Employee Assistance Programme and employee benefits
  • You will also be entitled to a generous annual leave entitlement starting at 29 days per annum (plus public holidays) Rising by an additional 5 days after 5 years’ service.

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.

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