Job Description
Job Category : Social Care – Qualified (Adults)
Location : Hackney Service Centre, Hackney Council
Salary: £23.56
Social Worker position available in the Integrated Learning Disability Service Hackney. This is a multidisciplinary team. We have vacancies in the Preparing for Adulthood sub team as well as the Ongoing Support and Complex Cases sub team.
PURPOSE OF THE JOB
• An experienced qualified social worker (2 years +) To hold and manage a complex and challenging caseload of up to 20 adults .
• an experience of, and interest in working with adults with learning disabilities and their families is highly desirable
• To have knowledge and expertise in understanding and carrying out responsibilities under the Care Act, including undertaking safeguarding enquiries under s42, mental capacity act ideally with experience of managing adults subject to proceedings in the court of protection.
• To undertake s9 care act assessments, person centred care and support plans, reviews , safeguarding enquiries
• to evidence effective case management, purposeful evidence based interventions, analytical assessments and high quality written work.
Job context;
• To report to Senior Practitioner and Team Manager where appropriate
• The post holder will be required to work flexibly in line with health and social care integration priorities.
• To work flexibly in a hybrid way; from home, hackney service centre, and see adults face to face in care homes and their own homes
2x Preparing for adulthood
1x Reviews/complex cases.