About the Role
The London Borough of Hounslow's Adult Social Care department is a dynamic 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.
The team is based within Hounslow House and staff work both on site and remotely.
Responsibilities
* Providing guidance and advice to staff regarding the Care Act and statutory duties that we must comply with
* Supervising staff
* Managing incoming Safeguarding alerts and identifying whether Section 42 enquiries are required to manage risk for our residents
* Working effectively as part of a team and contributing to a collaborative environment and acting as a duty manager once per month at weekends which will require telephone discussions to be held and guidance given to workers when required.
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 that you have worked with and demonstrate examples of where you have upheld human rights.
You will have sound and detailed knowledge of legislation such as the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005. You will require a good knowledge of Ordinary Residence statutory guidance and Safeguarding Adults procedures to help lead the time on decision-making in these areas
You'll have to demonstrate your ability to work to tight timescales in a fast-paced environment and be able to flexibly manage your day-to-day priorities.
Benefits
If you join us, you'll have access to a range of employee benefits. Read more about these here.
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, best articulated in \'Harness the Mix\'. It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.
We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.
As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There's space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.