Temporary Social Worker - Adults Social Care
Reference no: S Tyneside 1000569914785278
Pay Rate: £154.99 per day PAYE
Hours per week: 35-37 Monday to Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 3 months
City: SOUTH SHIELDS
Enhanced DBS disclosure required
Work collaboratively with people who have complex needs to formulate support plans that maximise abilities, enable individuals to make choices and work towards their identified goal.
You will contribute to the development, performance, quality assurance and continuous improvement of Adult and Integrated Care Services. Ensuring services are responsive to the local and national landscape and contribute to the Council’s aims and objectives within an overall framework that safeguards adults, promoting health, independence and wellbeing.
Key Responsibilities
* Provide person centred assessment of need at a level of complexity appropriate to the post, facilitating choice through the promotion of independence, as allocated by your line manager and where requested.
* Work with the person or carer to develop an agreed care and support plan to achieve the identified outcomes to meet assessed eligibility need within resource allocation.
* Refer, liaise, consult and work effectively with agencies and other professionals in order to meet identified needs.
* Ensure care and support services are person centred, focused and promote the independence, overall safety and well-being of adults and where relevant children.
* Promote and embed the effective delivery of strength based approaches to support planning, maximising on an individual’s strengths and community / family resources.
* Provide professional support and information, guidance and advice on how their needs could be partly or wholly met by universal and other non-care services.
* Proactively work towards embedding personalisation into practice including but not limited to individual budgets, direct payments, self-assessment and self-directed support. Practice and support planning will be focused on outcomes rather than service driven.
* Undertake reviews of support packages as required ensuring the right level of support is delivered only for as long as is needed and at a reasonable price, advising the person and their carers’ of alternative services as appropriate.
* Take professional responsibility for managing a case load, including adults with complex problems and whose circumstances may place their personal liberty or safety at risk.
* Provide written reports and support plan to represent individual and carers needs and ensure you maintain a high level of data quality for all information recorded, ensuring that the information is timely, accurate and complete.
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If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
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