Adults with Learning Disabilities Social Worker
Job Description
Job Title : Adults with Learning Disabilities Social Worker
Job Category : Social Care & Health Qualified
Location : Laurence House – Second Floor, Lewisham Council
Hours Per Week : 35.00
Start Date : Immediate start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:00
Salary: £21.80
SW posts in the Adults with learning disability transition team, candidate need to have a background in working with adults with LD, ADHD, Autism. Need to have completed ASYE , 2 years post qualifying. Must have good skill set including, strength based assessment, reviews, legal literacy, must have good working knowledge of legislation including MCA and DoLS , Safeguarding, Care Act. Equality Act. All assessments and Reviews are undertaken face to face. SW will have access to in house training and wider team learning events for CPD.
MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB
The main purpose of this job is to work as a care management social worker to assess the needs of vulnerable young adults and their carers, and to support them to arrange services to meet the needs and outcomes identified. The promotion prevention, independence and self-directed support, choice and control will be central to this post. Risk management and safeguarding will also be key parts of this role (including children’s safeguarding where relevant), together with case management support for those adult requiring frequent specialist intervention to meet their needs.
SUMMARY OF RESPONSIBILITY AND PERSONAL DUTIES:
Main activity
1. Ensure service users and their carers receive timely and proportionate care management assessments of their needs that identify the outcomes they wish to achieve.
2. Promote service user independence and recovery, including the promotion of Enablement and linking the service user to community based services that enhance personal wellbeing.
3. To work as part of multi agency teams providing seamless health and social care services.
4. To ensure that service users and carers are involved in individualised and creative support planning, encouraging choice and control through the use of personal budgets, including Direct Payments as the default position
5. Work with Community Development Staff to help people access community based services.
6. Ensure that risk management and adult safeguarding procedures are adhered to in social work practice. Be aware of any potential children’s safeguarding concerns and liaise as appropriate with Children’s Social Care Services taking into account children’s safeguarding procedures.
7. Carry out any assessments and service users reviews to a high standard in a timely manner in accordance with procedures reflecting the needs and outcomes of the service user and carer
All CV’s must have the Lewisham coversheet attached or they will be automatically rejected
SW posts in the Adults with learning disability 18 + transition team, candidate need to have a background in working with adults with LD, ADHD, Autism. Need to have completed ASYE , 2 years post qualifying. Must have good skill set including, strength based assessment, reviews, legal literacy, must have good working knowledge of legislation including MCA and DoLS , Safeguarding, Care Act. Equality Act. All assessments and Reviews are undertaken face to face. SW will have access to in house training and wider team learning events for CPD.
MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB
The main purpose of this job is to work as a care management social worker to assess the needs of vulnerable adults and their carers, and to support them to arrange services to meet the needs and outcomes identified. The promotion prevention, independence and self-directed support, choice and control will be central to this post. Risk management and safeguarding will also be key parts of this role (including children’s safeguarding where relevant), together with case management support for those adult requiring frequent specialist intervention to meet their needs.
SUMMARY OF RESPONSIBILITY AND PERSONAL DUTIES:
Main activity
1. Ensure service users and their carers receive timely and proportionate care management assessments of their needs that identify the outcomes they wish to achieve.
2. Promote service user independence and recovery, including the promotion of Enablement and linking the service user to community based services that enhance personal wellbeing.
3. To work as part of multi agency teams providing seamless health and social care services.
4. To ensure that service users and carers are involved in individualised and creative support planning, encouraging choice and control through the use of personal budgets, including Direct Payments as the default position
5. Work with Community Development Staff to help people access community based services.
6. Ensure that risk management and adult safeguarding procedures are adhered to in social work practice. Be aware of any potential children’s safeguarding concerns and liaise as appropriate with Children’s Social Care Services taking into account children’s safeguarding procedures.
7. Carry out any assessments and service users reviews to a high standard in a timely manner in accordance with procedures reflecting the needs and outcomes of the service user and carer
8. Work with advocates and carers where the service user does not have mental capacity to achieve outcomes in his/her best interests.
9. Ensure the principles of the Mental Capacity Act are applied where appropriate.
10. Ensure that all relevant case work recording is made on appropriate electronic systems in an accurate and timely manner. To be responsible for update Service User and Carer information and identifying and rectifying missing or incorrect information.
11. Manage own work and use both professional supervision, and the Council’s Performance Evaluation Scheme, as opportunities to seek advice and reflect on and develop practice.
12. Base decision making on research/evidence in consultation with others.
13. Prepare reports as required.
14. Work collaboratively with the lead officer, line manager and staff to provide positive peer challenge, and professional support to develop practice.
15. In personal professional practice (and that of supervised staff) promote an ethos of helping people help themselves or one another through initiatives to facilitate and support increased individual and community capacity. This includes utilising own resources, promoting social inclusion and community networks, reciprocal support and sustainable caring roles, through taking a strength based approach to assessment.
Partnership Working/ Team Work
16. Promote joint working at a frontline level, working in a multi-disciplinary way with colleagues in other departments of the Council and in Health.
17. Attend team meetings and foster a positive team working environment
18. Take responsibility for own and other people’s safety, by ensuring that team members and other staff are not knowingly exposed to the risk of violence
19. Alert line management to any situation of high risk which may attract negative public attention to the department.
General Duties
20. Adhere to legislation, guidance, proce