Senior Social Workers - Newport, United Kingdom - Isle of Wight Council

Isle of Wight Council

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Newport, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

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Description

County Hall Office, Newport and agile working, Isle of Wight

Grade 11, £41,548 to £44,356 per annum

Vacancy Reference:2023_652

Closing Date:27/12/2023

Contract Type:
Permanent

Hours:37 per week

Are you an experienced Social Worker passionate about working with people to promote independence and dedicated to making a difference?

Do you have experience of supervising, maybe as a Practice Educator or Mentor?
You may already be a social work manager looking for a new role. We would love to hear from you

About the roles:

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We have two full time Senior Social Worker positions available on our Isle of Wight Initial Adult Social Care Contact (IASCC) Team.
Our IASCC team is the front door of Adult Social Care.

The focus of this post will be to support the IASCC duty desk and community-based teams dealing with daily calls from the public, supporting people to remain as independent as possible in the community and preventing a need for more formal support.

We are doing this using a strength based initial screening tool to promote independence and collaborative working with people rather than using a dependency model approach.

This links in with our Care Closer to Home strategy on the Island. You can read up on this scheme
here.

Our Initial Adult Social Care Contact Team will soon be moving to new ways of working, forming a Wellbeing and access Hub made up of multidisciplinary staff; including our Occupational Therapy colleagues, partner agencies from the third and voluntary sector, our reablement service, alongside trusted assessors, social workers, and other staff who are able to provide expert advice and guidance to support those we serve.

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We have a full time Senior Social Worker position available on our Hospital Social Work Team (Short Term Pathways)

We currently have a vacancy for a Senior Social Worker in our Hospital Social Work Team supporting our Care Close to Home Strategy.

This role will give further opportunities to support our Rehabilitation, Community Rehab Services, Continuing Health Care and Hospice. This is an agile working role.

Senior Social Workers will hold a limited caseload of the most complex and challenging cases where discharge is problematic or high risk.

Quality control and authorisation of assessments and support plans

Supervision is cascaded throughout the team with Senior Social Worker supervising several of the qualified Social Workers and Occupational Therapists within the team.

We have a full time Senior Social Worker position available on our Integrated Localities team (community) South locality team.

We currently have a vacancy in our Integrated Localities Teams - South locality for a Senior Social Worker supporting our Care Close to Home Strategy.

This is an agile working role.

The integrated localities team is co located with health colleagues with all the advantages that this brings of shared knowledge and joined up working.

Senior Social Workers will hold a limited caseload of the most complex and challenging cases where there is complex or high risk identified.

You will be overseeing the day to day operations and supervision of the adult social care staff in one of the integrated localities teams whilst being supported by the Team Manager.

You will be responsible for quality checking and auditing work completed by those you line manage and supervise.

You will be allocating and approving work, providing supervision and practice guidance to your staff using your knowledge of legislation and understanding of safeguarding.

You will monitor performance, quality control through audit and authorise assessments and support plans your team will produce. Supervision is cascaded throughout the team with the Senior Social Worker supervising several of the qualified Social Workers.

About you:

As a Senior Social Worker, we understand the work you do on a daily basis and provide the support you need to make a difference to the people of the Isle of Wight.

To join us, you must:

Have a social work qualification and be SWE registered.
Enjoy working in a fastpaced environment.
Have experience of chairing meetings.
Be able to demonstrate skills and experience of promoting a person centred and strengthsbased approach.
Have an excellent working knowledge of legislation used within Adult Social Care
Have a good knowledge and understanding of Safeguarding, including s.42 Enquiries, and making Safeguarding Personal.
Be confident in decision making, whilst knowing when to seek support.
Understand the importance of data in supporting staff, teams, and wider service.
Have the passion to promote people's strengths and the ability to make a difference in a safe working approach to social work practice.

Have proven ability to work as part of a team and capacity to lead a team that puts the strengths of individuals, families, and community at the heart of care and wellbeing.

Be able to take part