Main duties of the job
What you’ll do
* Work closely with adults and families to provide tailored support and care planning in a strengths based and person centred way, embracing what community assets and strengths.
* Champion independence, dignity, and wellbeing in every interaction
* Collaborate with health professionals, community partners, and colleagues to deliver joined‑up services
* Bring compassion, resilience, and creativity to complex situations
* Help develop our workforce through supervision of up to 4 Community Care Officers.
Job responsibilities
As part of the wider Council’s objectives, you will be responsible for providing statutory professional social work as part of a team supporting adults with differing needs to promote independent living and to draw on care and support when required. You will demonstrate through practice experience a commitment to strengths‑based practice and skills in supporting people to identify and build support networks to achieve their identified outcomes, ensuring people are as safe as possible and adult safeguarding concerns are addressed promptly. You will be responsible for assessment, care and support planning, implementing and reviewing packages of care and support on a varied and more complex caseload. You will provide advice, support and mentoring to other Adult Care practitioners in relation to their cases. You will be expected to work with autonomy, to know and understand the local community and embed yourself within place‑based services. You will manage a case load and demonstrate a multi‑agency approach integrating your practice with colleagues across the health and care sector. Work may include travel outside the county.
Manage a varied and complex caseload with supervision and advice from the Team Manager/ Advanced Practitioner at a level of complexity appropriate to the post holder’s experience, and professional capability and be accountable for your professional practice.
Undertake needs assessments on more complex cases in line with the Care Act 2014 to identify care and support needs adopting and promoting a strengths‑based approach to identifying outcomes people want to achieve, opportunities for independence and identify solutions.
Work with specialist Safeguarding colleagues to contribute to and undertake safeguarding enquiries which put the person and the outcomes they want to achieve at the centre of safeguarding practice in line with LCC Safeguarding policies and procedures.
Deputise in the absence of the Advanced Practitioner e.g. Representing the Advanced Practitioner at multi‑disciplinary meetings.
Supervise up to four non‑registered social care practitioners (e.g. Community Care Officers), including planning, allocation and checking of work including setting targets, dealing with day‑to‑day capability and conduct issues/ providing basic staff welfare and support/ identify training needs.
Supervise / mentor students or act as Practice Educator, where appropriate to Social Work students and mentor newly qualified social workers undertaking the ASYE (Assessed and Supported Year in Employment).
About us
We want everyone who works with us to feel included and celebrate their uniqueness. We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity, eliminating unlawful discrimination, harassment and victimisation, and promoting good relations for both employee and for the people of Lincolnshire.
Qualifications
* Professionally qualified as a Social Worker
* Current SWE Social Work Registration
Experience
* Minimum of 2 years post qualification practice experience or 1 year post qualification experience (ASYE completed) together with 3 years experience at a similar level in a non‑qualified role in a complex health and social care setting.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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