Lead Social Worker

Lead Social Worker

Reference

PRI98604

Location

Priory Hospital Cheadle Royal, 100 Wilmslow Road, Manchester, SK8 3DG

Priory Group Division

Healthcare

Salary

Up to £45,000 DOE

Hours

37.5 hours per week

Vacancy Type

Permanent - Full Time

Job Advert Role Description

Main Purpose

Over-sees and leads all Social Worker activity, Co-ordinates, negotiates and manages the mandatory processes and procedures to ensure the unit's compliance with current legislation and statutory regulation; taking appropriate action to preserve the psycho-social and socio-economic circumstance of assigned clients attending Priory units; needs assessments of clients and their families and identification of relevant resources pre and post discharge.

Key Accountabilities

1. To conduct a comprehensive and objective evaluation of the client's current status, environment and functional abilities, including risk assessment of clients, staff and the wider community.

2. Manages, monitors and reviews an assigned caseload ascertaining the socio-economic circumstances of clients, ensuring that the relevant people are made aware of the clients situation. Maintains accurate and timely records detailing each patient's rehabilitation / progress.

3. To take the lead on POVA or Child Protection issues and take appropriate action with those statutory services. To apply working knowledge of statutory and company policies and procedures to set a strategy for protecting potentially vulnerable clients.

4. Assists and supports colleagues and relatives in understanding and interpreting changes in legislation and statutory regulations.

5. To collaborate and to act as main contact between relatives, agencies and other official organisations co-ordinating negotiations and communications regarding admissions, discharges and long-term needs.

6. To co-ordinate health, rehabilitation, social service, medico-legal and voluntary agencies to ensure an individually tailored programme is provided for each client, to establish the necessary level of care and to liaise with external agencies to help obtain the funding and services necessary to meet ongoing needs.

7. Responsible for the supervision and practice teaching of students and trainees assigned to the unit.

We pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer and embrace a diverse workforce. We employ people from all walks of life because they embrace our hospitals values;

Putting people first - We put the needs of our service users above all else.
Being supportive - We support our employees, our service users and their families when they need us most.
Acting with integrity - We are honest, transparent and decent. We treat each other with respect.
Being positive - We see the best in our service users and each other and we strive to get things done. We never give up and we learn from our mistakes.
Striving for excellence - For over 140 years, we have been trusted by our service users with their care. We take this trust seriously and constantly strive to improve the services we provide.

A career with Priory Cheadle Royal not only enables you to manage your own career pathway whilst paying a competitive salary, we also have a range of other benefits such as

• Free on site parking
• Subsidised meals
• Priory Perks discount portal
• Wellbeing committee
• Comprehensive Induction

We would welcome all applicants. If you can see yourself joining our team, apply to join now!

Division DBS info

About us

As one of the UK's leading providers of behavioural care and specialist support services, Priory promise a challenging and fulfilling career with the support of a world class organisation willing to invest in your development. Across our network of hospitals, residential care homes and supported living services, we are making a real and lasting difference to the lives of the people we support.

As part of our wider infection control efforts, and to meet our commissioner and customer requirements, we continue to record vaccination status for all colleagues and we therefore request that you disclose this information as part of your Pre-Employment checks. Your vaccination status will not affect any offer of employment and will be held in line with GDPR requirements. We thank you for your understanding.

Disclosure

All roles will be subject to a successful disclosure at an appropriate level from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), Access NI or Disclosure Scotland. We are an equal opportunities employer. Priory will cover the cost of a DBS check.

Closing Date

31/01/2025