Senior Social Worker (Ref: 2024_1034)
County Hall, Newport / St Mary’s Hospital, Newport / Island Wide.
Grade 11, £41,548.00 to £44,356.00 per annum
Contact: For further information or an informal discussion, please contact Julie Green at Julie.green@iow.gov.uk or 01983 823900
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: 37 per week
These are exciting times on the Isle of Wight within Adult Social Care, the whole service has supported a redesign that enhances strength-based practice, working with the community and our third sector partners.
We currently have two Senior Social Worker vacancies in our Wellbeing & Access Hub:
1. The first vacancy is based at St Marys Hospital supporting our Wellbeing & Access Hub Duty Team and working closely with our health colleagues.
2. The second vacancy is based at County Hall supporting our Wellbeing & Access Hub Front Door Team.
Our Wellbeing & Access Hub has moved to new ways of working, the team is made up of multidisciplinary staff including our Occupational Therapy colleagues, partner agencies from the third and voluntary sector, our reablement service, alongside trusted assessors, social workers and other staff who are able to provide expert advice and guidance to support those we serve.
The focus of these posts will be to support the Wellbeing & Access Hub Team with referrals and daily calls from the public, supporting people to remain as independent as possible in the community and preventing a need for more formal support. We are doing this using a strength-based initial screening tool to promote independence and collaborative working with people rather than using a dependency model approach.
The Senior Social Worker will hold a limited caseload which tends to be more complex and challenging cases. For example, the role of the Hospital Senior Social Worker would be to support with complex discharges, offering information and advice to patients and families, and assessing care and support needs prior to discharge. Both positions will require you to deal with crisis situations, and you will need to have a good understanding of risk and risk management. You will be expected to chair meetings, for example, Best Interest of MARM. You will be required to quality control and authorise assessments and support plans. You will also provide information and advice to staff while supporting staff to learn and develop their practice.
Supervision is a key role, and this is cascaded throughout the team with Senior Social Workers supervising several of the qualified Social Workers and Occupational Therapists within the team.
The successful candidates will be suitably qualified with a Social Work degree. You will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of The Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Data Protection Act 1998, and evidence of ability to work to practice guidance/procedure. You may be required to take part in the Out of Hours (OOH) stand-by duty rota as and when requested by management on an occasional basis.
To join us you must:
1. Enjoy working in a fast-paced environment.
2. Have experience of chairing meetings.
3. Be able to demonstrate skills and experience of promoting a person-centred and strengths-based approach.
4. Have an excellent working knowledge of legislation used within Adult Social Care.
5. Have a good knowledge and understanding of Safeguarding, including s.42 Enquiries and Making Safeguarding Personal.
6. Be confident in decision making while knowing when to seek support.
7. Understand the importance of data in supporting staff, teams, and wider service.
8. Have the passion to promote people’s strengths and the ability to make a difference in a safe working approach to social work practice.
9. Have proven ability to work as part of a team and capacity to lead a team that puts the strengths of individuals, families and community at the heart of care and wellbeing.
You will share our ambitions, passion, and attitude to ensure the people we serve live the best lives possible. You will be a critical thinker who has competence and confidence in your practice.
You will implement and promote departmental safeguarding procedures and adhere to departmental recording policy as well as attend multi-agency discharge planning meetings to ensure timely discharges. You will also be supporting carers and family members sharing and advising where required as well as offering Carers Assessments in line with the Care Act 2014.
You will benefit from a unique and enriching environment within an organisation that values strong leadership, a good work-life balance, quality management, and reflective supervision.
Team IWC Values:
1. Community & Customer focused.
2. Effective & Efficient.
3. Working together.
4. Fair & transparent.
We are proud of our commitment to offer:
1. Supporting and supervising all our social care workforce.
2. Providing opportunities for our staff as they develop and progress their professional careers.
3. Providing regular training opportunities.
For further information or an informal discussion, please contact Julie Green at Julie.green@iow.gov.uk or 01983 823900.
Closing Date: Rolling
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