Advanced Social Worker - Adult Intermediate Care Team

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Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for an Advanced Social Worker within the Adult Intermediate Care Team to work full time based in Swindon.

The salary for this permanent Advanced Social Worker job is up to £49,764 per annum.

Main duties:

* Undertake assessments, determine care packages/support plans and manage a large and complex caseload to maintain or improve the wellbeing of individuals in line with agreed service procedures and national legislation. Professionally supervise and support other colleagues.

* Participate in and where appropriate chair meetings of internal/external partners and other agencies, Best Interest Decision Maker, or facilitation of this, CHC joint decision making, etc.

* Manage a small caseload of complex work, using person centred practice principles to assess, support plan and review with the aim of promoting well-being and positive risk taking of individuals.

* Ability to manage and resolve complex and high-risk situations using negotiation and diplomacy, involving individuals, their families, or staff groups. Where these fail pass to senior managers.

* Promote, develop and model high quality social work practice including working within statutory responsibilities, evidence-based practice and comply with professional standards required by the Health and Care Professions Council.

* Provide professional support to social workers, assistant care managers and other team members, including development of skills, knowledge and experience and addressing performance issues.

* Provide specific operational professional advice and guidance to Team Managers, Heads of Service, Directors and commissioning colleagues on a broad range of issues relevant to social work.

* Work in collaborative partnerships with colleagues from the council, health and other stakeholders within the voluntary and community sector which promote well-being, social inclusion and resilient.

* Able to demonstrate independent critical judgement, to problem solve in complex and unpredictable situations and to effectively manage conflict.

* Able to communicate effectively with people at all levels with positive and person-centred approaches. Including via written reports.

* Ability to use and contribute to supervision/team meetings to promote your own and team development, skills and learning.

Requirements of this Advanced Social Worker job:

* A social Work Qualification or equivalent.

* Understanding of relevant legislation.

* Registered or eligible for registration.

* Experience in using professional knowledge to work within referral systems according to established criteria.

* Proven ability to work with challenging client groups and situations.

* Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

* Proven ability to deliver training.

* Accurate record-keeping and report writing.

* Knowledge of financial assessment processes.

* Fluent in the English language (as a requirement of Part 7 of the Immigration Act - for the effective performance of a client-facing role).

* Post-graduate qualification in a relevant area, e.g. Practice Educator or Best Interests Assessor or Approved Mental Health Professional.

* Good IT skills, able to use Word, Excel, E-mail and relevant Care Management Data Bases, be able to access information digitally and promote the use of self-help via digital platforms.

Contact:

This Advanced 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.