Job Purpose:
To deliver a high quality social work service to older people who are deemed vulnerable or needing support due.
You will need to work with the citizen, carers and families to provide support and to develop resilience and independence, ensuring that the citizen, families and carers are at the centre of decision making about their lives and the outcomes that they want to achieve.
Duties and Responsibilities - Job Specific
Provide a direct social work service to those citizens who are vulnerable in accordance with statute, national and regional policies and guidelines, incorporating an outcome focussed approach helping service users to acquire, re-acquire, maintain or develop their independent living skills, identifying appropriate service responses at different levels of independence to achieve this.
Work in partnership and develop effective relationships with colleagues in other Social Service service areas, private and voluntary sector, Health and Emergency services to deliver an integrated response to meeting need.
Build effective relationships and work in partnership with citizens and their families/carers to identify and meet needs and ensure that the rights of the individual are safeguarded.
Ensure that the statutory timescales for assessment and review are met.
Use Person Centred Planning approaches, to support the effective participation of citizens in the assessment, care planning and review processes, ensuring they are at the centr...