Safeguarding and response to need
1. Provide professional leadership for complex case arrangements, in
2. situations which involve, risk, complexity and safety of the service user
3. and others.
4. Identifying through assessment the needs and strengths of service users
5. and/or family carers and source appropriate solutions and interventions.
6. Use analytical skills to inform assessment, decision making and
7. intervention.
8. Complete support planning with services users to ensure that outcomes
9. identified at assessment are met within budgetary constraints through the
10. provision of support, equipment, adaptations and enabling programmes.
11. Identify and take a professional lead on adult safeguarding issues where
12. abuse or neglect is suspected.
13. Take a professional lead and oversee cases of individuals who lack
14. capacity to agree to or plan their care, undertake proportionate
15. assessment in accordance with current Adult Social Care legislation
16. including MCA and best interest assessments.
17. To provide more specialist social work practice skills and knowledge to
18. make independent decisions and support situations in which risk,
19. ambiguity or complexity is greatest.
20. To act as the lead professional to services users and their carers and
21. families to enable them to retain, as far as possible, choice and control of
22. their lives.
23. To provide written and verbal reports, appropriate for courts and other legal
24. purposes, which are concise, informative and based on complex evidence to
25. support problem solving and resolution.
26. Assess and manage risk, knowing how to intervene proportionately and
ensuring people are protected from harm, whilst protecting their human
rights.