Role: Adults Social Worker - Learning Disabilities team
Location: Yeovil, Somerset
Rate: £38 an hr
Eden Brown are recruiting on behalf of Somerset Council who are looking for an experienced Adults social worker to join their Learning Disabilities team on a locum basis.
This is a full time, hybrid, locum position to start as soon as possible. £38 an hour.
Duties and responsibilities include:
- Make ongoing assessments of allocated cases to reflect individual circumstances including assessment of risk, enabling independence and need to ensure that service users are protected from significant harm.
- Responsible for a caseload of varying complexity, commensurate with ability and qualifications, receiving and responding to referrals from various sources.
- Community Care, integrated care programme approach and risk assessment to work to protect the safety and protection of individuals.
- Statutory reviews and comply with appropriate legislation, policy and procedures.
- Assess client needs in consultation with them and with other professionals and agree levels of support.
- The need to engage with people refusing a service who are at risk to self or others.
- The need for sensitive negotiation when assessing service users and carers where there is conflict or lack of insight.
- Effectively manage people presenting in crisis needing a quick resolution, using relevant legislation and resources.
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