Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker within the Adult Integrated Community Care Team to work full time based in Guernsey.
The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £56,090 per annum.
Main duties:
- To provide a social work service to adults living in the Bailiwick of Guernsey. To carry out assessments using the agreed standardised format. To participate in co-ordinating services for people wishing to remain within their own homes. To offer support to people who may be moving into care.
- To form relationships with service users to formulate an accurate assessment of complex psychosocial needs of service users, their families and service providers and assess for services in line with local policy.
- To provide complex psychosocial support for service users with terminal illness/life threatening illnesses and their families, advocating for service users, carers, and families around complex emotional & practical needs.
- Assess service users, carers, and family’s psychosocial concerns taking into account cultural, spiritual, psychological, social and financial issues and risk evaluation, in partnership with other members of the multi-professional team as appropriate.
- Formulate appropriate interventions to meet service user needs in conjunction and liaison with the multi-professional team, the person’s personal networks and other community resources.
- Undertake person centred assessments, evaluating & reviewing service user and families needs regularly and readjust care plans if necessary.
- Provide emotional and psychosocial support to service users and their relatives, using individual, group, and family techniques with an aim to improve communication within the family/professional network and help to resolve difficulties. Referring those in need of formalised counselling to the psychological therapies team.
- To develop effective links with families and carers (non-statutory and statutory) in order to achieving a comprehensive assessment and to develop an appropriate care plan based on individual need.
- To demonstrate a high standard of practice under their own direction, that reflects a value-based approach to working with adults and families that is person centred.
- Undertake training, and attend and participate in education events, such as conference to further individual professional development, keep updated regarding research and practice, and contribute to the development of the service and the organisation.
- Take responsibility for keeping updated on current social work practice issues in statutory services and care of adults accessing training when necessary.
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 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.
