About the Role:
Leicestershire County Council are seeking an Social Worker to join their dedicated Mental Health Hospital Team.
The Social Worker will deliver a high quality, person-centered, accountable statutory social care service, ensuring that vulnerable adults and their families and careers;
- Are able to assess, manage and review their own needs and risks, maximise their own independence and self-direct the responses to deliver agreed outcomes
- Can access personalised care and support to meet their assessed needs and maintain themselves in the community
- Are protected and safeguarded
Key Responsibilities:
Ensure high quality outcome-based responses to all citizens eligible for social care services by:
- Providing appropriate responses or referrals within required timescales, organisational, policy and legislative requirements including the reimbursement legislation and eligibility guidelines
- providing prompt support to meet immediate risks and needs in crisis situations
- Providing targeted, appropriate support to citizens’ self-assessments of their needs, working in partnership with colleagues in health and other partner agencies to contribute to multi-disciplinary assessments as required
- Acting as care co-ordinator for citizens with complex needs, supporting high risk, complex assessments where there are specific concerns requiring a high level of specialist qualification and knowledge and/or where there are difficult life circumstances or serious trauma.
- Ensure that responses are geared to citizens’ ethnic, religious, cultural and linguistic background, practicing in a manner and delivering services which are in all respects anti-discriminatory
- That concerns and complaints are responded to and are addressed by making appropriate changes to existing practices.
Identify, investigate and manage potential safeguarding, mental capacity, continuing health care and other high risk situations where citizens’ safely or liberty may be at rick, working with all relevant agencies so as to enable citizens to take risks whilst protecting them from abuse, managing the risks to staff and the Council.
Promote independence and facilitate solutions, providing practical, person-centered assistance for citizens, their family/carer and their support network to:
- Assess and review their own risks and outcomes and determine the allocated personal budget
- Design and cost a mutually-agreed best value support plan to meet agreed outcomes
- Identify community and other natural support resources, hence maximising their assets using benefits, preventative/universal services and other funding sources
- Liaise and negotiate with local providers, support networks, and other resources
- Access, use and review their services, including the effective use of direct payments and the safe use of equipment and adaptations in compliance with relevant legislation, policy and guidelines on safe working practices.
- Identify and implement positive solutions in resolving any conflict between the parties involved
- Arrange, implement and review support plans if requested by the citizen, and providing intensive support if they require it to start activities or test new services
- Refer to the line manager unresolved support and service issues, including
- cases where it appears that outcomes to meet needs cannot be delivered by the personal budget allocated
- lack of availability of suitable services
- local providers’ apparent failure to meet national or locally determined quality or performance standards.
- Facilitate complex care and support arrangements on the citizen’s behalf
Contribute to team effectiveness and response by working to and enforcing Departmental standards and, where joint working is in place, those of the NHS:
- Prioritising work allocated by the line manager and managing a caseload under regular supervision
- Participating in a help desk/response system
- Maintaining comprehensive accurate case records and IT records consistent with agreed fieldwork practice
- Producing case reports and correspondence for a variety of audiences including meetings, conferences, court, panels and other agencies
Undertake the statutory functions of the Department relevant to the post, maintaining an up to date knowledge of legislation, policy and service developments in social work, occupational therapy and related areas of skill and expertise
Maintain efficient and reliable liaison with other statutory and voluntary agencies as well as other Council departments, having particular regard to effective working relationships with statutory and independent sector providers of residential, nursing and community based services
Develop expertise and knowledge of services, conditions and local community resources and to use this to contribute to the management and development of team, group and council-wide policies, processes, projects and services
Requirements:
- Qualified Social Worker
- Registered with Social Work England
- Eligible to work in the UK
Interested?
For more information on this role or to apply, get in touch with our vendor department who will arrange for a specialist consultant to get in contact with you:
0203 906 8670
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and manage a relationship to support service users and their families in line with statutory obligations through complex decision making to allow service users to access improved future opportunities.
- In conjunction with partner agencies and stakeholders, effectively assess and plan service users’ individual needs to ensure positive outcomes for Manchester residents.
- Develop positive and effective solutions in all aspects of service delivery and engagement, focusing on the quality of outcomes for service users.
- Collaborate with internal and external colleagues and stakeholders to actively contribute to the development and delivery of the service within Manchester City Council and partner organisations.
- Engage with stakeholders in the private and public sectors and across local communities to encourage a collaborative and transparent approach that promotes service users’ needs across a range of existing and new initiatives.
- Efficiently maintain accurate and appropriate records in accordance with statutory targets and City Council, local and national policy and procedures to evidence achievement of service targets and improvements in delivery.
- Roles at this level may be required to manage a range of assigned resources, which may be human, financial or other, to ensure continuous improvement in service delivery. Staff management duties may be either through direct line management of a team (including appraisals, performance management and other duties) or through matrix management of a virtual team of officers.
- Personal commitment to continuous self-development and service improvement.
- 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.
Requirements:
- Hold Degree/Diploma in Occupational Therapy
- Registered with the Health Care Professionals Council (HCPC)
- Willingness to consent to and apply for an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check
- Eligible to work in the UK
Interested?
For more information on this role or to apply, get in touch with our vendor department who will arrange for a specialist consultant to get in contact with you:
0203 906 8670