Objective:Provide timely and appropriate support to Southend-on-Sea residents, including those from outside the borough.Responsibilities:
1. Recognise and build on each person’s strengths and desires to help them live as independently as possible.
2. Assume that individuals know what’s best for their own life goals and well-being.
3. Conduct assessments and help create personalised care plans that leverage localmunity resources, personal networks, and services to lessen reliance on formal support.
4. Collaborate with health and social care professionals, and other partners, to adopt creative and forward-thinking practices aimed at improving life in Southend.
Innovation and Creativity:
5. Use your creativity to contribute ideas and opinions.
6. Drive change by ensuring solutions are based on best practices and innovation.
7. Join a team that values change and works effectively together.
8. Set an example of high-quality social work practice with excellentmunication, knowledge, values, and a focus on the individual.
9. Encourage critical thinking and group work to maintain a safe, responsive, flexible, and emotionally intelligent work environment.
Planning and Organisation:
10. Work with partners, including the police and health and social care providers, to coordinate efforts and resolve any arising risks or issues.
11. Foster an environment that encourages innovative and bold practices to achieve the best oues for themunity.
Collaboration and Co-production:
12. Promote a culture of active engagement and co-production within the team,munity, and broader system.
13. Engage with people at all levels to co-produce services.
14. Get involved inmunity engagement tobat isolation, loneliness, and disconnection amongst adults and families.
15. Apply critical thinking to the development and maintenance of services withmunity and stakeholders.
16. Build effective relationships with key stakeholders, such as GPs, primary care professionals, hospital staff, andmunity leaders, to contribute to a better Southend.
Strengths and Asset-Based Engagement:
17. Embrace an asset-based approach, integrating health and social care to bolstermunity resilience.
18. Follow the principles of the Care Act (2014) and related legislation as part of the transformation of Adult Social Care.
19. Implement a strengths/asset-based perspective in assessments, care plans, reviews, and team culture.
20. Uphold social work ethics and values, ensuring individuals remain the focus of practice.
Resilience and Independence:
21. Cultivate your strengths and aspirations to feel empowered and prepared forplex practice challenges.
22. Encourage a team culture of empowerment and independence that mirrorsmunity-based practice approaches.
23. Adopt positive risk assessment and decision-making to move away from overly cautious practices.
Change Management and Ownership:
24. Partner in creating change within themunities and systems you work in.
25. Challenge existing practices and hierarchies, and take ownership of innovative ideas.
26. Engage in the broader transformational goals of Southend with active participation.
27. Employ critical thinking to develop a holistic understanding of the system-wide impact.
28. Offer your insights and perspectives to shape the future.
Quality Assurance:
29. Take on professional duties for Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards, safeguarding enquiries, and Mental Capacity Act assessments when needed.
30. Maintain a high standard in yourpetency workbook, ensuring goals and oues are tracked and assessed.
31. Manage your workload effectively, prioritising tasks to maintain high-quality service delivery.
Staff Development:
32. Invest in your professional growth to handle theplexities of social work with confidence.
33. Be a proactive agent of change, supporting practices that empower and develop themunity.
34. Play an active role in the ongoing development of practice.
35. Pursue leadership training to enhance your ability to lead change and contribute to Southend Borough Council’s evolution into a learning organisation.
Expectations:
36. The selected individual should be prepared to work beyond standard hours, which may include weekends, bank holidays, and participating in an on-call rotation as necessary.
37. Flexibility to serve across different Social Work teams is expected, contingent upon the evolving needs of the service.
Benefits to You:
Southend-on-Sea City Council value their social workers and provide a nurturing environment, allowing you to thrive professionally and personally.
38. Work-Life Harmony:
Enjoy a generous annual leave package and flexible working arrangements to suit your lifestyle.
39. Supportivemunity:
Be part of a collaborative team that’smitted to making a real impact in social care.
40. Extra Benefits:
Take advantage of our volunteering leave to give back to themunity.
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