Social Worker – Community Team – Chichester

Job Description

Job Category :Social Care – Qualified
Location : Durban House, West Sussex County Council
Hours Per Week : 37.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:30
Salary: £30.44

Location – Office Durban house – which is a large area cover from Emsworth, over to Selsey, Witterings, Chichester, Tangmere, Midhurst, Hazelmere, Petworth

Working arrangements – In office, doing face to face visits and some working from home. Expectation to be in the office at least once a week. All assessments are face to face. Hours are 9-5

Job Description –

Our Chichester community team have a dedicated focus to work and support adults with a range of needs relating from physical health needs, mental health needs, sensory impairments, neurological conditions, acquired brain injuries at later age. We also work collaboratively with individuals and family or friend, carers to identify people’s strengths, networks and community assets. We offer a dedicated, strengths-based approach in our work that we know makes a positive difference for the customer. Whether we are engaging with people seeking advice and providing information or starting a journey with people that may lead to a personal budget to meet complex needs, we are always looking to deliver the best outcomes. The Chichester community team covers a large, diverse geographical area. The team works with adults age 18+ with a range of physical, mental health and substance misuse difficulties, providing statutory Care Act assessments, reviews and completing safeguarding enquiries. The volume of work is significant due to the large area covered. This is an exciting opportunity, and we are looking for staff who share our passion for the customer group we support and who can help us to be even better than we are today and improve the customer’s journey. If you are happy to join our team and wish to take this opportunity, then we would like to talk to you. Due to the nature of the role, travel is needed and a driving licence is essential. As a Social Worker within our team, your role will involve working with adults from 18 years and upwards with physical disabilities, including some memory problems or sensory disabilities. You will be responsible for achieving positive change and improved outcomes, managing a busy and varied caseload by providing a statutory accountable social care service to those people who access or need the service. You will be undertaking Care Act assessments and reviews including mental capacity act assessments, processing safeguarding enquiries as a LEO, working as part of a team. You will be expected to work within organisational, policy and legislative requirements. For this role you will be expected to demonstrate relevant theoretical Social Work concepts, practices and detailed organisational knowledge relating to the provision of a professional Social Work service dealing with complex issues and ethical dilemmas. You will be solution focused and systematic with the ability and willingness to work flexibly to assist customers, carers and families and have a good understanding of partner agencies. You will be evidence based, challenging and curious in your professional approach whilst empathising and building up good and honest relationships with individuals, families and other partners e.g. health, housing, support providers. In this exciting opportunity, you will be able to organise your own workload and time, respond independently and creatively to unexpected problems and situations (with available support from your seniors for advice and guidance when required), and you will have the ability to take a person-centred approach and work with families and advocates whilst ensuring the voice, views and aspirations of the individuals are heard in assessments and reviews. Peer Forum is also part of your assessment process where you will have the opportunity for peer support and advice on availability and support for your customer in wilder community and available local resources and support. You will be able to practice with a strengths-based approach, drawing on people’s own resources, and those of the community, to meet people’s eligible needs and personal outcomes.