Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency, has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker within the Adult County Team to work Full Time based in Herefordshire.
The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £40,777 per annum.
Responsibilities:
* The Social Worker has day-to-day responsibility for the prioritisation of their own work and identification of issues of risk.
* The Social Worker represents the Community Wellbeing Directorate and Hereford Council in their day-to-day activities and will comply with all relevant policy and procedure affecting their role, including safeguarding.
* Provide regular and effective supervision to allocated Assessment and Enablement Officers, as required.
* Ensure any appropriate legal/financial arrangements are correctly in place for the provision of services to service users and carers in liaison with appropriate teams and panels.
* Ensure monitoring and reviewing systems are in place for clients on their caseloads and to ensure casefiles and electronic recording on Mosaic is current.
* Consider an enabling and strength-based ethos and approach to supporting service users and their families/carers and in joint working with partners and agencies.
* Follow the relevant procedures for ensuring that information and data is collected and recorded accurately to enable reliable analysis and reporting.
* Work in a way that is consistent with Councils Equal Opportunities, anti-discrimination and anti-oppressive practice policies.
* Undertake day duty and safeguarding duty when required.
* Work in conjunction with the registration and inspection units in monitoring good practice within local authority and independent sector residential and nursing homes.
* Work with nursing reviewing officers to ensure that under continuing care provision assessment for health services provision are undertaken when appropriate.
* Support hospital discharge arrangements for patients in liaison with hospital-based professional staff and relevant agencies/teams to ensure safe discharge and prevention of admission.
* Identify where reablement (and/or other appropriate services) are appropriate and refer to relevant agencies.
Requirements:
* A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
* Understanding of relevant legislation.
* Registered or eligible for registration.
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from diverse backgrounds. We are committed to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and provide reasonable adjustments for candidates with disabilities.
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