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An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Ageing Well Mansfield Community Team North for an Advanced Social Work Practitioner. We are looking to recruit an experienced, enthusiastic, registered Qualified Social Worker who is strongly committed to working in partnership with the people of Nottinghamshire.
If you have experience and skills to supervise staff, participate in promoting a learning environment, facilitate group supervisions and provide leadership to Social Workers and Social Care Practitioners we would like to hear from you.
You will have experience working with individuals with complex care and support needs, have ideally completed a qualification such as Practice Educator, Best Interest Assessor or Approved Mental Health Practitioner or be willing to work towards this.
You will also be expected to have a good working knowledge, experience and understanding of the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act and other relevant legislation. You will be responsible for a small but complex caseload and will be expected to undertake and complete comprehensive safeguarding investigations.
You will be expected to work closely with and provide guidance to Social Care colleagues regarding adults who have care and support needs and carers providing Strengths Based, evidence based assessment and reviewing intervention. This role will also involve working in partnership with colleagues and staff from other agencies.
You will be expected to be experienced in IT skills, Promote Independence, choice and control of service users to enable them to continue to live within their homes whether this is in the community or a care home environment.
You will need to be experienced in completing Safeguarding Adult Enquiries, assessments and reviews in a timely manner with older people, have experience of record keeping procedures, working as a member of a team and have very good organisational skills. You will also be experienced in working to tight timescales and commissioning cost effective personalised support to meet the assessed needs of the service users as part of the reviewing process. Managing Safeguarding as part of Making Safeguarding Personal is part of the role and this can be offered as a development opportunity for the post holder.
The post requires you to be able to provide structured, positive supervision to social workers and CCO, providing support in complex case work. You will be responsible for supporting the development of good, evidence-based practice particularly in the key areas of risk enablement, safeguarding, the Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act, Court of Protection work.
You will be joining our established team of person centred, passionate, enthusiastic and committed Social Work and Social Care Practitioners and Occupational Therapists.