Social Worker (Adults)

Job Description

Job Category : Social Care Qualified
Location : Badminton Road Council Offices, South Gloucestershire Council
Hours Per Week :37.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time :09:00
End Time :17:30
Salary: £24.38

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* This is an essential SW role within Adult Social Care, where you will be responsible for carrying out SW assessments needs and providing advice and guidance to our service users. You will liaise and work closely with contacts from different sectors, health and the voluntary sector, working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, ensuring that communication is effective, and that knowledge and best practice are shared.
* You will review and monitor care plans and the quality of service provision and respond to changes need. This includes, develop, and evaluate reablement programs as part of care packages ensuring that programs to support independence are implemented.
* You will be responsible for managing your own caseloads or specific projects to ensure specialist inputs are obtained and effective outcomes achieved.
* You will raise awareness of a range of care issues and their implications and carry out risk assessments and complete safe methods of work practice guides, in order to ensure that needs are assessed, and appropriate action is taken.

Full clean driver’s licence and access to a car (or able to use another appropriate means of travel) to travel to a range of locations including home visits.

Role Purpose
To undertake the assessment of needs, devising and planning action, implementing and evaluating it in order to promote independence and deliver a high standard of personalised care.
Or
If relevant to lead or supervise a team to deliver high standards of personalised care.
Key Responsibilities

Carry out assessment of needs, providing advice and guidance to service users and their carers, in order to establish care plans where appropriate, ensuring that services are effective and meet legislation, regulations and codes of practice.
Review and monitor care plans and the quality of service provision, responding to changing needs and renegotiating service provision where appropriate.
Manage own caseloads or specific projects to ensure specialist inputs are obtained and effective outcomes achieved.
If relevant: supervise a small team on a day to day basis including allocations of casework, giving guidance, advice and feedback, ensuring that clear organisation and direction is provided and that all team members receive training support and development opportunities.
Support the delivery of designated areas of work by coordinating day to day operations and contributing to developing projects and processes.
Raise awareness of a range of care issues and their implications and carry out risk assessments where appropriate, in order to ensure that needs are assessed and appropriate action is taken.
Develop and evaluate reablement programmes as part of care packages ensuring that programmes to support independence are implemented.
Liaise and work with contacts from different sectors, including health and the voluntary sector, sometimes as part of a multi-disciplinary team, ensuring that communication is effective and that knowledge and best practice are shared.
Complete and present records and reports in accordance with professional and council guidelines.
Take necessary action in accordance with Safeguarding procedures in order to protect vulnerable people.
Make recommendations for significant budget spend ensuring that maximum value is delivered for the resources deployed and contribute to budget management or directly manage a small designated budget. This will ensure that the maximum value is delivered for the resources deployed.

Essential
Degree in Social Work or equivalent (e.g. DipSW, CQSW, CSS) (KSE1).
Registered with the Health Care Professionals Council (HCPC) (KSE1)
Experience of working with a broad range of people including families in a social care setting (KSE 2)
Experience of, or be prepared to work in accordance with the Councils Safeguarding policies and procedures (KSE3, 4)
Evidence of on-going continuous professional development and knowledge of current legislation and practice relating to social care. (KSE 2,3,4)
Experience of managing and prioritising a case load. (KSE2)
IT skills to use client data system (with training if needed), and common software packages e.g. word, outlook (KSE7)
Have good interpersonal skills, be able to carry out good quality assessments and outcome focused support plans and communicate findings and risks to service users, families, carers and keep detailed and accurate records. (KSE5)
To co-ordinate and lead a range of regional, sub-regional and corporate activity on behalf of the council in complex partnership settings in order to identify opportunities and secure improvements for the residents of South Gloucestershire by;
• Leading the project management and delivery of large scale, complex, high profile projects and strategies, establishing new external partnership governance arrangements as required.
• Managing a series of ‘virtual teams’ to support the Council’s input to a variety of regional strategies and projects.
• Co-ordinating and leading advice and support to the Leader and Chief Executive. Leading on the identification and assessment of local, sub-regional, regional and national policy developments, strategies, initiatives, projects and work programmes and identifying the impact on South Gloucestershire.
• Carrying out related projects and tasks, liaising and consulting widely within and across council departments, and externally with the public and partners, and keeping the Leader and Chief Executive fully briefed. This also involves briefing and informing elected members in order to gain their involvement and commitment to the high level sub-regional vision and objectives of the project/initiative.
• Developing and enhancing the effectiveness of strategic relationships with the West of England Combined Authority, the West of England Local Enterprise Partnership, the constituent Councils of these organisations, and other organisations and/or agencies as required.
• Leading on and managing conferences, workshops and briefings, ensuring appropriate resources are available and managed to meet deadlines, outcomes, follow-up actions and decisions.
• Leading on the development of policy and funding submissions to Government and other relevant agencies.
You will be required to travel widely within the Authority so you must either have a current driving licence and provide a car, or have access to appropriate means of travel.
Desirable
Completed, or prepared to work to complete, assessed year in employment (ASYE) (KSE1&2)
Some skills or experience of mentoring others (KSE4)
Qualified Best Interest Assessor ((KSE1)