Social Worker - United Kingdom - Hampton's Resourcing Limited

Description

Children's Service, Social Worker - £

Wokingham Borough Council

It is an exciting time to be joining Wokingham Borough Council on our journey to good. Wokingham is committed to providing a learning environment and culture where Social Workers are given recognition and are valued for the important work that they do and where Social Workers are supported to be the best they can be, in turn supporting children, young people and their families to achieve the best possible outcomes for children in their care. This involves creative and innovative solutions to managing demand, providing the right level of service for the right children at the right time and maintaining manageable caseloads for our Social Workers.

Role Responsibilities:

Assessment

Use professional skills, knowledge, and experience and a range of interpersonal and specialist communication skills to gather information and complete and record a social care assessment proportional to need.
Complete a risk assessment that will be proportional to the presenting needs, with particular reference to safeguarding, mental capacity and the needs of complex cases, using the principles of positive risk taking.
Where appropriate, refer the person to other specialists; statutory services; and/or relevant agencies, and take a professional lead in meeting social care needs.
Establish the assessed person's eligibility using Adult Services' criteria.
Ensure an assessment is offered to a carer/s in relation to their caring role, and completed if requested.

Care & Support Planning

Ensure that appropriate action in conjunction with other agencies and within legal and statutory framework, to protect vulnerable people.
Ensure a care plan or support plan summary is written that identifies how needs will be met, outcomes will be achieved and any identified risks will be managed.
Where a safeguarding risk management plan is required, make a key contribution to that plan and ensure that a care or support plan summary is written in the context of the risks identified.
Resolve conflict with competing needs and mediate between different goals and objectives.
Ensure that the plan will take account of diversity, and will maintain and improve their quality of life. Care plans should promote dignity and empowerment and comply with legal and statutory requirements.
Ensure that where a person lacks mental capacity to make a decision concerning their social care, a Best Interest Decision is made on their behalf, unless there is another person with evidenced authority to make the decision.
Ensure that appropriate service provision is identified which is within the Department's resource framework and adheres to Best Value Principles.
Ensure the care or support plan summary is risk assessed using the principles of positive risk taking and following departmental practice guidance.
Ensure the care or support plan summary is agreed with the person concerned wherever possible, and/or their legal representative, it is appropriately recorded in their social care record, and all activities needed to meet the department's performance indicators are completed.

Case Management

Offer support and guidance and work in a professional manner with service users, carers and families to establish mutual trust and understanding and ensure services received meet identified outcomes.
Maintain case records that comply with current legislation and departmental policies and procedures. Records should be accessible to individuals, colleagues and managers as appropriate.
Produce reports as required which comply with statutory and departmental procedures and capture and analyse information clearly and guide decision making and case management.
Within the bounds of confidentiality and appropriate consent, communicate effectively with individuals and agencies using a variety of methods to keep them appropriately informed and involved.
Respond appropriately to feedback from service users and providers.

Review

Review and reassess as required care packages/support plan summaries against identified risks, assessed needs, and agreed outcomes.
Take appropriate action if a person's assessed eligible needs are not being met, including a re-assessment of needs if required.
Work with multi-disciplinary teams, and other agencies to ensure a review is proportional to need.
Ensure the review is agreed with the person concerned and/or their representative; it is appropriately recorded in their social care record; and all activities needed to meet the department's performance indicators are completed.

Finance

Ensure that people who have eligible social care needs are referred for a financial assessment, and are advised on how funding is allocated to meet assessed eligible needs. This will include an explanation on how service user contributions are processed.
Ensure all provisions are recorded and are authorised appropriately.
Ensure people are correctly signposted to information on benefits, contributions and allowances.
Check that personal budgets are an appropriate amount to meet assessed eligible needs, and if adjustments are needed, refer to line manager.

Professional Development

Complete continuing professional development as required by own professional body, and other training and development activities identified in your personal development plan or by the department.
Contribute to and participate in the development of others through sharing best practice and learning from events and experiences of practice with both positive and negative outcomes.
Offer advice and support to unqualified staff, newly qualified staff and students on placement, and in agreed circumstances provide specific support and supervision e.g. practice educator or work based supervisor.

Role Requirements:

Essential Qualifications

Relevant Social Work qualification
A current HCPC registration

Essential Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Good communication skills - and the ability to negotiate with service users, relatives and providers
Able to assess risks, needs, analyse information and recognise problems. Understand equality and diversity issues in social work practice and the principles of safety, dignity and empowerment
Understand philosophies, professional social work issues and legal frameworks underpinning specific client groups and social services statutory duty and role in the wider community
Understand data protection/confidentiality and need for accurate and timely recording. Computer literate.
Understand Best Value principles and need for resource constraints
Organised and able to manage time and conflicting demands.
Commitment to learn and develop in professional and job role, undertake post qualifying training and continuous professional and personal development
Able to fulfil the travel requirements of the role

If you are interested in this position or would like to have a confidential discussion to find out further details, please call Dan on

Hampton's Resourcing prides itself on creating opportunities for Social Care Senior Managers to challenge themselves to continually develop their skills and experience. Our aim is to consistently find work for the most talented individuals within Children's and Adults Social Care services, across the UK