Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency, has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker within the 0-25 Disability Team to work full time for Hertfordshire.
The salary for this Social Worker job is up to £45,859 per annum.
Main duties:
* Provides professional leadership in situations which are complex or ambiguous.
* Actively engages with, assists, and provides advice to carers, conducting carers assessments when appropriate, to enable them to sustain their caring role.
* Acts as the lead professional in safeguarding situations (both inter-agency and inter-professional situations).
* Assess and manage risk, knowing how to intervene proportionately and ensuring people are protected from harm while protecting their human rights.
* Engages with, assists, and provides advice to carers, conducting carer’s assessments to enable them to sustain their caring role.
* Acts as the lead professional when an adult is at risk of social exclusion and assists people to deal with adverse circumstances such as poor health, poverty, inadequate living conditions, as well as maximizing the strength of individuals, their families, and their communities.
* Acts as the lead professional where a person is severely constrained by social or family circumstances and provides support to achieve a reasonable degree of independence and autonomy.
* Promotes independence and community wellbeing, choice, and control within a personalisation framework and uses self-directed support flexibly.
* Acts as the lead professional when a person’s health or capacity is deteriorating or likely to deteriorate without intervention, and the alternative may be premature admission to institutional forms of care or a legal intervention by the state in the lives of a family.
* Keeps and maintains accurate, up-to-date service user records, in line with professional requirements and departmental recording methods.
* Maintains accurate and up-to-date knowledge of resources through continual professional development, supervision, and active engagement with local communities.
* Undertakes specialist training as required to maintain and progress career within the organisation.
* The duties and responsibilities listed above describe the post as it is at present. The post holder is expected to accept any reasonable alterations that may from time to time be necessary.
Requirements of this Social Worker job:
* A Social Work Qualification or equivalent.
* Understanding of relevant legislation.
* Registered or eligible for registration.
Contact:
This Social Worker job is advertised by Zehnn Young; if you are interested in this position, please click above to apply now.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.
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