Social Worker x 2 – First Contact Team
Salary: £39,855 - £47,532
Full time, Permanent
Location: West Middlesex University Hospital
R0006730
About us at Hounslow
We’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.
We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs.
About our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.
As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates.
Our Benefits
If you join us, you’ll have access to a range of employee benefits.
About The Role
Hounslow’s Adult Social Care department is a dynamic, fast-paced service comprising of Social Workers, Social Work Assistants and Social Care Advisors that work with multiple professionals to ensure that residents of Hounslow have access to a Adult Social Care Duty team that will identify the support they require as soon as possible.
Within the role as a Social Worker, staff are required to contribute to MDT discussions, complete Mental Capacity assessments, Best Interest meetings, family meetings and safeguarding concerns. You will also be required to complete Care Act assessments to identify what support is available to the residents we serve.
As a Social Worker, your primary functions will be to take responsibility for your practice and performance whilst ensuring an appropriate use of resources.
Human Rights is at the centre of the service’s work, and we ensure that we are the voice of the resident that we are serving and that we embody our social work values in our day-to-day roles.
The successful applicant will be registered with Social Work England as a qualified Social Worker and have a passion for social work values and supporting residents.
About The Team You’ll Be Working In
The First Contact Team is the front door for Adult Social Care in Hounslow. Your role as a Social Worker will be to support the functioning of the duty team and ensure that we respond to emergencies in a timely manner.
The team will require your support and input in the following ways:
1. Completing Care Act Assessments
2. Completing Mental Capacity Assessments
3. Completing incoming Safeguarding alerts and identifying whether Section 42 enquiries are required to manage risk for our residents.
4. Working effectively as part of a team and contributing to a collaborative environment.
About You
You will have contributed to a positive team culture and be a strong team member, with an emphasis on achieving collective goals and supporting colleagues on a daily basis.
You will bring experience of delivering positive outcomes for residents and demonstrate examples of where you have upheld human rights.
You will have good knowledge of legislation such as the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005, and a basic knowledge of Ordinary Residence statutory guidance and Safeguarding Adults procedures.
You will be able to demonstrate your ability to work to tight timescales in a fast-paced environment.
Qualifications:
SWE England Registration and Social Work Qualification
Essential for The Role:
Enhanced DBS
When Interviews Will Be Held And Who To Contact.
Email: Richard.Brown@Hounslow.gov.uk
Telephone: 0208 583 6209
Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 16th December 2024
Closing date is 8th December 2024
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