Main Purpose
Over-sees and leads all Social Worker activity, co-ordinates, negotiates and manages the mandatory processes and procedures to ensure the unit’s compliance with current legislation and statutory regulation; taking appropriate action to preserve the psycho-social and socio-economic circumstance of assigned clients attending Priory units; needs assessments of clients and their families and identification of relevant resources pre and post discharge.
Key Accountabilities
1. To conduct a comprehensive and objective evaluation of the client's current status, environment and functional abilities, including risk assessment of clients, staff and the wider community.
2. Manages, monitors and reviews an assigned caseload ascertaining the socio-economic circumstances of clients, ensuring that the relevant people are made aware of the clients' situation. Maintains accurate and timely records detailing each patient’s rehabilitation/progress.
3. To take the lead on POVA or Child Protection issues and take appropriate action with those statutory services. To apply working knowledge of statutory and company policies and procedures to set a strategy for protecting potentially vulnerable clients.
4. Assists and supports colleagues and relatives in understanding and interpreting changes in legislation and statutory regulations.
5. To collaborate and to act as main contact between relatives, agencies and other official organisations co-ordinating negotiations and communications regarding admissions, discharges and long-term needs.
6. To co-ordinate health, rehabilitation, social service, medico-legal and voluntary agencies to ensure an individually tailored programme is provided for each client, to establish the necessary level of care and to liaise with external agencies to help obtain the funding and services necessary to meet ongoing needs.
7. Responsible for the supervision and practice teaching of students and trainees assigned to the unit.
We pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer and embrace a diverse workforce.
Putting people first - We put the needs of our service users above all else.
Being supportive - We support our employees, our service users and their families when they need us most.
Acting with integrity - We are honest, transparent and decent. We treat each other with respect.
Being positive - We see the best in our service users and each other and we strive to get things done. We never give up and we learn from our mistakes.
Striving for excellence - For over 140 years, we have been trusted by our service users with their care. We take this trust seriously and constantly strive to improve the services we provide.
A career with Priory Cheadle Royal not only enables you to manage your own career pathway whilst paying a competitive salary, we also have a range of other benefits such as:
* Free on-site parking
* Subsidised meals
* Priory Perks discount portal
* Wellbeing committee
* Comprehensive Induction
We would welcome all applicants. If you can see yourself joining our team, apply to join now!
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