Adult Social Worker Homecare Retender Project #000AB6861

Job Description

Please be aware this is a Long Term Temporary post to start ASAP.

The following is essential criteria:

– Degree in Social Work

– SWE Registration

– Right to work within the UK

Key Role Descriptors:

The role holder will work with complex cases in accordance with statutory responsibilities. They will deploy these responsibilities in accordance with national and local policies and procedures to secure positive outcomes for customers. The role holder will manage safeguarding risk effectively, working within a multi-agency environment, providing a professional social work service.

To promote the independence and well-being of adults of working age and/or older people.

To complete assessment and planning of individual packages of care for service users and carers, in line with criteria of eligibility and designated care plan.

To work in a holistic and person-centred way, ensuring customers and families remain central to the processes they are part of.

The role holder will supervise and develop students and trainees and contribute to the development of other staff including other social workers.

Key Role Accountabilities:

Effectively manage a complex caseload with appropriate supervision, guidance and support. The role holder will be accountable for highly complex decision making across a range of social work duties and responsibilities.

Prepare and produce a variety of high quality and professional written documentation on behalf of the City Council in accordance with national and local policies and procedures and within agreed timescales.

Work in conjunction with and providing consultation to partner agencies to deliver effective planning for Adults, their carer’s and families to ensure positive outcomes. This will include representing the City Council at a range of meetings, proceedings and reviews as required.

Ensure that the practice of ethical record keeping is observed and recording is evidence based, accurate and up to date.

Take an active role in team and service development. This will include supervising students and providing support to colleagues as and when required.

A personal commitment to continuous self, professional and organisational development. Through personal example, open commitment and clear action, ensure diversity is positively valued, resulting in equal access and treatment in employment, service delivery and communications.

Role Portfolio

The Social Worker is expected to work in a person centred, strength-based manner to achieve positive outcomes for the individual, supporting them to maintain their independence, and providing and promoting choice and control of their support to enable them to maintain their lives in their local community.

The Social Worker is required to recognise and identify safeguarding, taking a person-centred approach to safeguarding in accordance with the Care Act 2014 and Manchester City Council’s safeguarding policy and process.

The Social Worker is also expected to have an understanding of the Mental Capacity Act 2005, demonstrating that where an individual does not have capacity, that they are acting in their best interests with the least restrictive options at all times.

Manchester works in an integrated approach i.e. health and social care colleagues working alongside each other to achieve the best outcomes for our citizens, supporting citizens to remain in the community and promoting safe and effective transfers of care from a hospital setting back to their own homes.

Key Competencies and Technical Requirements

Behavioural Competencies

• Teamwork – Working together helps deliver the best outcomes.

• Customer Service – Putting customers at the heart of what we do.

• Delivery – Delivery of high-quality services is at the heart of what we do.

• Change – Improving services and making the most of resources.

Generic Skills

• Communication and Interpersonal Skills – Is able to effectively transfer key and complex information to all levels of staff, adapting the style of communication as necessary and ensuring that this information is understood. Ability to communicate equally, appropriately and effectively with the widest range of individuals and groups across all sectors and levels of society.

• Planning and Organising – Ability to organise own time effectively, creating own work schedules, prioritising, preparing in advance and setting realistic timescales for own self and others. Has the ability to visualise a sequence of actions needed to achieve a specific goal and how to estimate the resources required. Ability to maintain focus and objectivity under various conditions and skill in managing and maintaining a multi-priority workload, progressing various ideas and plans concurrently.

• Analytical Skills – Demonstrate the ability to apply analytical and logical thinking to gathering and analysing information, designing and testing solutions to problems, and formulating plans. Application of strong analytical reasoning skills and intellectual focus, taking in the wider external and internal environments.

• Problem Solving and Decision Making – Ability to react to immediate problems of a highly complex nature with associated risk factors and deliver immediate solutions sometimes under extreme pressure.

• ICT Skills – Ability to use IT systems to retrieve, record and update information and willingness to learn to use new systems.

.

Technical requirements (Role Specific)

• Social Work Qualification

• Willing to consent to & apply for an enhanced disclosure check

• Registered with Social Work England.

• Willingness to travel to any location within Manchester City boundaries.
Please be aware this is a Long Term Temporary post to start ASAP.

You must have:

• A professional qualification in social work

• Social Work England registration.

• Post qualified experience.

• Enhanced DBS/Update service.

• References required for the last 5 years of employment.

Benefits of working with Semester.co.uk:

• Free on-going training opportunities upon registering as part of our commitment to you.

• Competitive Rates of pay

• In house payroll, providing weekly payments and support

• Enhanced DBS completed.

• Support and expert advice from an approachable, dedicated and friendly team

• An assigned dedicated & experienced consultant

• Various employment opportunities in your preferred geographical area

If you would like to find out more information about this role, or the other opportunities Semester.co.uk have available feel free to click the ‘Apply’ button**