Adult Social Worker jobs in Waltham Forest

1 JOB DESCRIPTION Title: Senior Social Worker

Job Summary :

As a Senior Social Worker, you will act as the champion and leader of social care and safeguarding in the Community Mental Health Teams. You will be expected to give robust, consistent, and expert social care practice

You will promote high quality, recovery-focused and cost-effective social care services to service users and their carers, focused on the principles of choice, control and independence, as well as ensuring safety.

You will support social workers in your locality to maintain constant reflection and development of their practice and will support their continuing professional development in line with the standards set out by the professional regulator, Social Work England.

All Senior Social Workers must be registered with Social Work England , you will provide advice, support, and supervision to other AMHPs.

Job Responsibilities:

1. To be a champion of social care with a comprehensive understanding of legislation and statutory guidance.

2. Provide accurate, consistent, and robust social care, legal and practice advice, and support

3. To undertake the most complex assessments and reviews, for people who may present with a high risk, or those with significant interpersonal, social, legal and/or 2 environmental complexities, ensuring people are assessed appropriately against social care eligibility criteria as defined by The Care Act 2014.

4. To offer direct support to service users and colleagues, through information and advice, to ensure that those who do not meet social care eligibility are appropriately signposted and supported.

5. To ensure that appropriate health and social care services are commissioned with and on behalf of service users, including the duty to offer direct payments, and that processes are in place for service users to be charged by the local authority for the social care services they receive, if applicable.

6. To ensure that commissioned services allow choice to service users and carers and focus on people living in the community with appropriate support and access to universal services.

7. To undertake regular risk assessments and ensure that vulnerable people are kept safe.

8. To lead in the promotion of both child and adult safeguarding practice in line with current policy, and take a lead role in adult safeguarding investigations, including the chairing of strategy meetings and case conferences.

9. To advise colleagues in best practice when undertaking carer assessments, including identifying contingency plans, and provision of support.

10. To be skilled in partnership working and identify, develop, and facilitate a wide range of recovery-focused community services, ensuring that colleagues within the locality are also aware of developments and best practice.

11. To ensure the involvement of service users and their carers can learn from their experiences to make improvements to service delivery.

12. To ensure accurate computer records of all work undertaken are kept up to date.

13. To undertake your own post qualifying and other appropriate training to ensure high standards of practice and continuation of your registration with Social Work England.

14. continuing professional development.

15. To provide both management and reflective supervision to the team

16. To support ASYE assessor and engagement in the ASYE moderation process.

17. To undertake duties as an Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) or be willing to undertake AMHP training.

18. To participate in your own regular supervision and ensure regular reflection on your own practice as both a social worker and AMHP.

19. To undertake other tasks and duties which form part of the delegated social care responsibilities accepted by the Trust on behalf of Central Bedfordshire Council.

20. To adhere to Trust policies and procedures.

21. To undertake additional training as required.

22. To carry out any other duties as appropriately identified by your line manager. Working Relationships 3 The postholder will be expected to work as part of the multi-disciplinary team.

They will need to work in partnership with service users and carers and a wide range of stakeholders . They will need to demonstrate principles of dignity and respect, focusing on personalisation, choice, and control. They will be a champion and expert in the field of social care and safeguarding and will be responsible for ensuring that colleagues within the service provide high quality social care services.

Communication may focus on issues of a highly sensitive nature, e.g. child protection, adult safeguarding, Mental Health Act assessments.

Social workers are professionally accountable for information which may be shared formally, either verbally or in writing.

Communication with some service users and carers may be controversial and received with hostility and/or rejection.

Senior Social Workers will be responsible for ensuring clarity about social care and safeguarding developments and best practice within their locality. Clinical Responsibility

The postholder will demonstrate professional knowledge and competence gained through social work training, leading to registration with Social Work England.

Senior Social Workers will have undertaking training to practice as an Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP).

Expertise within their specialism must be underpinned by theory and post-graduate training. The postholder’s work will be relatively autonomous, but a reasonable level of support and supervision is provided.

Their work will focus on integrated assessment, care planning and care management directly with service users and carers who present with the most complex circumstances.

There is a requirement of the postholder to develop specialised programmes of social care and social care packages in the most complex of situations and ensuring this is done in partnership with service users and carers. Leadership and Management Responsibility

This will include providing clinical supervision to less experienced social workers and to AMHPs, regardless of their professional background.

Judgement Skills The postholder will assess needs and outcomes and analyse a wide range of information in relation to service users and carers.

They will ensure that complex information is analysed, and recommendations made, for which there is professional accountability. They will involve service users and carers to enable us to learn from their experiences.

The postholder may be asked to undertake surveys and audits using research methods and contribute to trust wide surveys when required.

Planning and Organisational Skills The postholder will plan and organise activities requiring formulation and adjustment which may be complex.

Pay: £34,420.00-£56,112.97 per year

Work Location: Hybrid remote in South East London