Social Worker - Adults - 2 YRS + PQE (Grade I-K) (CTL)

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB • To provide a professional social work service to adults, their families and carers in line within the requirements of the Care Act 2014 and the focus of the promoting wellbeing and identifying significant impact. • To comply with the statutory requirements of the relevant childcare, mental health legislation, identifying, responding to, managing and evaluating risk as appropriate considering and applying the Mental Capacity Act 2005 • The role holder will assist individuals, carers and families by completing strength based assessments which support the identification of individual, personal network, community strengths and universal services. Applying robust and evidence based eligibility decision making and promoting best value. • To develop support plans which meet personalised outcomes. Take a preventative approach to all intervention that maximises the opportunities to reduce and delay needs and provide sufficient advice and information to support informed decision making, including via the arrangement of advocacy as appropriate. Intervention is to be holistic, looking at the whole person and all relevant professionals around them as to work in an integrated way. • To undertake safeguarding enquiries in line with legislation, statutory guidance and good practice approaches with a focus on making safeguarding personal to ensure that the adult is at the centre of the process. DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES 1. Carry out responsibilities under mental health legislation and regulations including, where applicable, Approved Mental Health Professional duties. Have effective liaison and working relationships with mental health agencies and service providers. Attend case conferences, case meetings and team meetings as required. Participate in office duty arrangements and on-call arrangements. 2. Develop and implement plans aimed at resettling people with severe mental illness Promotes independence and autonomy 3. Uses a strength based, person centred approach, developing creative and personalised solutions to assist people to manage their lives independently for as long as possible, ensuring agreed outcomes are met. Encourage the use of direct payments as an option wherever possible 4. Promotes independence and community wellbeing, choice and control and uses self-directed support flexibly. Take a preventative approach to interventions, maximising use of appropriate resources including Reablement, equipment, adaptations, assistive technology and advice and information. Undertakes trusted assessment/provision functions to promote independence and, where appropriate, offer access to standard equipment, which may involve the issuing of an equipment prescription (for redemption via a retail outlet) and delivery/fitting. 5. Ensure those accessing the service, including families and carers, are at the centre of decision making over their support arrangements and that opportunities and capacity for choice and control are optimised and reflected in their assessments and reviews. Actively engage with, assist and provide advice to carers, conducting carers assessments when appropriate, to enable them to sustain their caring role 6. Develop and maintain effective working relationships with the Brokerage team, Initial Assessment and Shorter Term Support Services to ensure the smooth transition of clients through the pathway and directorate. Initiate and develop joint working with health related agencies (including GPs and Intermediate care), the third sector, local housing providers and other agencies, in order to facilitate co-ordinated, high quality outcomes for people needing support. 7. To ensure that people, including those who do not meet the Council’s eligibility criteria, have access to information, advice, and signposting to universal and preventative services which promote their health and wellbeing. Ensures effective safeguarding and risk management 8. To make ongoing assessments of need of service users allocated, including assessment of risk, with the objective of minimising risk and harm to service users and carers and seeking to achieve maximum independence possible. 9. Undertakes safeguarding enquiries, providing expert knowledge of safeguarding processes, practice, policy and case law where appropriate. Lead on cases where a safeguarding concern has been identified and utilise the council’s policies and procedures. Seeks the direction of a manager dependent on experience. 10. To ensure statements for court and reports for case conferences, panels and reviews are prepared and presented to a high standard, within allocated timescales and evidence the involvement of adults, families and carers. This could include mental health review tribunals, court etc.