Social Worker - Luton, United Kingdom - Connect2Luton

Connect2Luton

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Luton, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Role:
Social Worker

Department:
Public Health & Wellbeing

Connect2Luton are excited to recruit a Social Worker on behalf of Luton Borough Council within their Public Health & Wellbeing department.

Main purpose of position:

The Adult Social Care Division exists to promote the independence, inclusion and well-being of all adults with social care needs.

It aims to do this by enabling people to:

Have control over their lives.
Live safe, healthy and fulfilled lives.
Have an active role in a stronger and prosperous community.
Access the support they need in order to be as independent as they choose.

As a Social Workeryouwill be responsible to:

Complete professional assessments of need and risk for highly complex and challenging cases in respect of service users and carers using Luton Borough Council eligibility criteria.

This will include safeguarding cases and undertaking AMHP and BIA assessments.

This involves:

Undertaking statutory duties under the Care Act 2014, Mental Health Act 1983 and Mental Capacity Act 2005, other legislation and guidance relating to service users and carers and maintaining professional registration.
Overseeing a duty role as necessary and prioritising level of intervention (including allocating initial assessments to social care staff).
Keeping appropriate case records, statistics and information utilising Council computer case recording systems, and other IT systems where required.
Providing reports for Court and other purposes, meeting the needs of internal/external agencies and complying with Luton Borough Council Policies and Procedures.
Working with other professionals and partners to achieve effective joint working through initiatives that require a multiagency approach, participating in and organising and chairing multi agency meetings.
Undertaking training and keeping up to date to with legislative changes and best practice.

Coach and mentor and provide support on case work issues to a group of up to 4 unqualified staff / Social Care Assessors.

Providing leadership, support and challenge to enable them to undertake assessments, including risk assessments, complete RAS paperworkand support service users and carers with support planning and review tasks.

This involves:

Ensuring that service users and carers are involved in timely assessment and support planning and review processes
Ensuring needs are met through negotiation with service users and their carers and consultation with professional colleagues, and that Support Plans are person centred and focused on individual outcomes, meet assessed needs, address risks, promote independenceand choice, respect service users dignity and rights and meet their cultural needs
Checking that support plans (or care packages) provide value for money and meet assessed needs and outcomes identified by the user and take account of any changing needs at review.

Skills and Experience

Substantial post qualifying experience in social/health care field.
Experience of coaching/ mentoring.
Experience of the customer interface environment and demonstrable commitment to customer satisfaction including knowledge of the different adult client groups.
Experience of advocacy and user involvement issues including promoting the involvement of people in developing their own care/support plans.
Significant experience of collaborative, partnership and interagency working.
Selfmotivating and managing, high achiever, dynamic and innovative, able to work as part of a team and meet strict deadlines and targets.
Able to undertake AMHP and or BIA assessments
Able to promote the benefits of working together as one multidisciplinary team and one department to minimise duplication and make best use of scarce resources
Able to work with complex and challenging cases with access to support and supervision where there may be issues of vulnerability and risk and where crisis intervention may be required in compliance with health and safety policies.

DBS

About Us

Luton Borough Council have partnered with Kent County Council to create Connect2Luton, a recruitment managed service for all contingent temporary agency, contract, and interim roles at the Council.

Our heritage and being local government owned which means we have a wealth of knowledge and expertise within the public sector, with many of our employees having previously worked for the Council or have supplied previously into the Council, for severalyears.