Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for an Adult Social Worker within the Integrated Community Care Team to work full time based in Guernsey.
The salary for this permanent Adult Social Worker job is up to £59,343 per annum.
Main duties:
- To provide a social work service to adults living in the Baliwick 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 contribute towards a holistic assessment within the multi-professional specialist team, recognising that diversity, values and human rights may influence the decisions of people who use the service.
- 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.
- To take a key role in responding to referrals to the Adult Social Work team carrying a caseload of adults in need.
- Assess service users, carers, and family’s psychosocial concerns taking into account cultural, spiritual, psychosocial, social and financial issues and risk evaluation, in partnership with other members of the multi-professional team as appropriate.
- Assess family’s emotional resilience, coping skills, strengths, and difficulties within this practice setting, using expert social work skills & discussion with the multi-professional team.
- Undertake person centred assessments, evaluating & reviewing service user and families in needs regularly and readjust care plans if necessary.
- Take responsibility for recognising and addressing the needs of those with mental health problems, learning disabilities, and other vulnerabilities.
- Identify the need for planned respite for service users in conjunction with other members of the community team.
- Attend and contribute to formal multi-professional meetings to review and plan all aspects of service users care as necessary, chairing as appropriate.
- To develop effective links with families and carers (non-statutory & statutory) in order to achieve 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.
- To maintain up to date knowledge of research relevant to practice and contribute to its implementation.
Requirements of this Adult Social Worker role:
- A professional Social Work qualification or equivalent.
- Understanding of relevant legislation.
- Registered or eligible for registration.
- Substantial experience in health or social care.
Contact:
This Adult 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.
