Are you ready to make a real, positive impact on another person's life?
There are currently vacancies for Social Workers within East Sussex County Council's Learning Disability Service, providing an opportunity to work with adults, their families, and carers, and to contribute to making a positive impact on their lives, prospects, and outcomes.
As a service, we are committed to working with our clients to build on their strengths, enabling them to live full lives within the community as independently as possible. This involves working closely with our health colleagues and key partner agencies, so excellent communication skills are a must.
An essential part of the role focuses on Safeguarding, and you will be expected to take on the Lead Enquiry Officer Role alongside other statutory work. You will need to be able to independently travel to cover the area of the service, which is countywide and includes rural locations. Occasionally visits to clients outside of the county may be required.
Our hybrid working arrangements allow for a mix of being home and office-based throughout the week. We have vacancies in Cavendish House, our Hastings office, and Bellbrook, our Uckfield office.
Main Duties of the Job
We recognize that this is a challenging role, not for everyone; however, East Sussex is committed to providing the support and professional development to make the most of your skills, including the opportunity for career progression.
We are looking for candidates who:
* Are keen to develop further as a social worker.
* Can work as part of a team.
* Have communication skills and feel confident in discussions with other professional disciplines.
* Have an ability to meet travel requirements of the post.
* Have a commitment to training and personal development.
Job Responsibilities
A practitioner who is able to undertake a full range of social work tasks independently and is able to demonstrate the ability to deal with complexity and work to the legislation relevant to their service area.
1. Undertake a range of tasks which could include investigation of adult safeguarding issues, carrying out assessments of need, analysis and planning, assessing and managing risk, commissioning support, and reviewing.
2. Identify and appropriately report children and adult safeguarding concerns, liaising with key agencies to gather information and acting as Investigating Officer as delegated.
3. Work with a range of legal interventions and departmental policies and procedures to support outcome-based planning for adults.
4. Work directly with adults in need, carers, families, and their communities to support people to make informed decisions and choices, empowering them to express needs and participate in the decision-making process.
5. Work with partner agencies and adults in need and their carers and families to enable them to build networks of community support and maintain their independence for as long as possible.
6. Maintain good case recording and present reports to panels and in court as appropriate.
7. Contribute to the learning of social work students, newly qualified social workers, and other team members, for example through group supervisions and mentoring.
8. Evidence ongoing commitment to continuous professional development and undertake relevant training in line with the Professional Capability Framework.
Essential Education and Qualifications
* Social work qualifications and registered with the professional regulatory body.
* Successfully completed Assessed and Supported Year in employment, or the equivalent if prior to 2012, (NQSW year and academic module) or equivalent.
Essential Key Skills, Abilities, Knowledge, Experience, Values and Behaviours
1. Engage effectively using creativity, compassion, and authority to overcome resistance, build relationships, and communicate while maintaining professional boundaries with children, families, and carers in complex, variable, and emotionally challenging situations.
2. Ability to promote, develop, and establish effective, collaborative partnerships and networks to promote appropriate information sharing.
3. Able to manage workload independently, applying critical reflection and analysis to maintain, develop and apply a range of effective judgments and assessments.
4. Able to demonstrate accountability and effective judgment when anticipating, identifying, assessing, and managing risk.
5. Able to articulate a positive social work identity and application of power and authority.
6. Apply the principles of social justice, social inclusion, and equality decision-making in all casework.
7. Able to demonstrate knowledge of, and competence against, the 9 domains of the Professional Capability Framework at social work level.
8. Demonstrate knowledge of appropriate legal and policy frameworks and an awareness of current case law.
9. Understand forms of harm and their impact on people.
10. Experience of completing needs assessments upon which effective plans are based.
11. Able to make use of research to inform practice.
Salary
£38,865 to £44,428 a year (East Sussex Single Status)
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