Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency, has a new permanent position available for a Senior Social Worker within the Transitions Team to work full time based in Redbridge.
The salary for this permanent Senior Social Worker job is up to £51,890 per annum.
Main duties:
* To review the needs of service users and carers, using your ability to present ideas relating to individual need to include a range of options.
* To facilitate service users' independence and empowerment as far as possible by ensuring that at all stages of a service users' transition plan, clients and carers are kept fully informed of their rights and have access to all relevant information.
* To ensure that individual care plans are person-centred and responsive to the needs of users, including their religious, cultural, and linguistic needs, and the needs of disabled service users.
* To ensure that users have access to translation and interpretation services and that Braille and signing facilities are made available wherever possible.
* To always maintain a courteous, helpful, and polite response to users, and to ensure that individual needs are recognised and supported.
* To attend multi-disciplinary case conferences, meetings, and reviews, as appropriate. Identifying the individuals' housing needs and recommending appropriate packages of care and ensuring that service users and carers are supported in making a full contribution to meetings.
* To participate in the Team’s Duty Rota, responding to calls requiring urgent intervention, including situations which require investigation and action under Safeguarding Procedures.
* To liaise and consult with users, carers, colleagues, and with a range of statutory and voluntary agencies in compiling information to provide the basis of an assessment of client need.
* To respond effectively and sympathetically to any complaints made about the provision of services in accordance with the appropriate Council complaints procedures.
* To participate fully in the development and maintenance of good liaison and cooperation with the local community, community groups, and other agencies and non-statutory organisations.
* To attend relevant internal and external meetings in relation to transition and as required by the Line Manager.
* To devise a Transitions Care Plan between Children’s Service and Adult Service, working in partnership with the young person, his/her family/carers, and any other significant people in the life of the young person.
* Any other duties appropriate to this area of work and consistent with the level of the post, as may from time to time be required.
Requirements of this role:
* A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
* Understanding of relevant legislation.
* Registered or eligible for registration.
* This post requires registration with the relevant health professional council/governing body (Social Care England).
Contact:
This Senior Social Worker job is advertised by Stefan Garrett; 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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