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Interim Social Worker - Adults Locality Team
Reference no: Barnsley 0009 7E7B / 1
Pay Rate: £20.85 per hour PAYE
37 Monday – Friday, 08:45 - 17:00
This opening assignment is for 2-3 months
City: BARNSLEY
Enhanced DBS disclosure required
Hybrid working is available with a requirement to spend 3 days office based.
You will need to be able to undertake visits within a vast geographical area with the Central and Penistone area of Barnsley and be proficient with IT skills.
The role is for an experienced Social Worker to work within an adult locality team and will entail working with individuals, families, carers, and communities to enable them to make informed decisions, to promote independence, whilst working in a strengths-based approach.
You’ll need relevant experience of working with adults and be expected to produce high quality assessments, collaborating with various agencies, and interpreting case law and legislation. Experience of undertaking assessments under the Care Act, Mental Capacity Act and investigations for Safeguarding Adults are essential. You will need to be able to work in a faced paced environment arranging packages of care and residential care. Experience of managing complex case work including best interests and self neglect/hoarding is desirable.
Key responsibilities:
Support the delivery of agreed plans of care ensuring that service users are supported safely and individual needs and service targets are met. The quality and standard of care must meet CQC fundamental standards.
Support clients with their personal care as determined within their individual care plan. Personal care can include supporting service users undertaking activities such as dressing, washing, bathing or shaving, toileting, getting in or out of bed, eating, drinking, taking medication and communicating.
Postholders are required to be involved in monitoring the progress of service users, being mindful of triggers for challenging behaviour, seizures and acting appropriately in line with agreed guidelines and to highlight any changes in an individual’s behaviour to the manager so that the support plans can be updated.
Provide support for individuals who may regularly place emotional demands on the jobholder; and raise significant issues to the manager.
The activities and support undertaken by care workers should have a direct impact on the positive well-being of individuals. Therefore, postholder will work with senior officers to ensure that activities motivate and interest service users and provide a positive experience. As such they will contribute to the planning of daily activities and risk assessments.
Postholders will attend and contribute positively to meetings as requested by the manager providing input by sharing the outcome of interactions with service users and highlighting issues that may have an impact on the review of the service user’s case.
Ensure the accurate administration and recording of medication, including rescue medication, in line with the Councils Medication policy. Postholders will need to ensure that agreed protocols are followed when supporting an individual’s personal care such as peg feeding, postural care, changing stoma bags, buccal suction, medication via a peg etc.
Expected to ensure all records are updated and accurate. This includes ensuring appropriate information security protocols are applied when sharing and preparing information relevant to the service user’s care. Records include care plans, risk assessments, work related logs and other template based documents.
Have direct contact with a range of people involved in care delivery; service users, families, care/medical professionals, other colleagues etc, they must ensure they act and communicate professionally and appropriately at all times.
Where appropriate to attend and contribute positively to meetings as requested by their line manager.
Need to exercise appropriate interpersonal caring skills in order to meet the needs of clients. This includes using guiding and persuasive skills as appropriate to encourage the service user to undertake tasks such as eating, dressing etc. Referral will be made to a senior officer where the service user’s response could have a negative effect on their or others health, safety, and/or care.
Qualifications:
Social Work qualified
HCPC Registered
Knowledge:
Demonstrate a sound working knowledge of Adult Social Care legislation and practice.
Knowledge of relevant current Social Care and Health legislation relating to adults and young people in transition, e.g. Care Act (2014), Mental Capacity Act (2005), Health & Social Care Act (2022).
Working knowledge of duties and responsibilities of a Local Authority, Health, Public Health, Financial Regulations and Voluntary Sector.
Experience:
Relevant experience of working with adults in the community and/or hospital settings.
Working across a range of agencies and understanding their roles.
Skills & Abilities:
Skills in undertaking strength-based assessments
Interpersonal skills to negotiate with others.
Excellent communication skills with a wide range of people and mediums.
Good team and collaborative working skills.
Effective organisational skills and ability to set priorities.
Ability to understand budget management principles.
Ability to manage workload and make sound decisions even when under pressure.
Ability to chair meetings.
Ability to use the electronic client recording system and able to use mobile working tools
Ability to undertake safeguarding enquiries
Ability to use the Mental Capacity Act (2005) to determine an adult’s capacity and to consider making best interest decisions where appropriate
Ability to listen and work with adults in a person centred approach.
Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
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Clients are generally looking for candidates who are local to, or who can commute easily to the place of work. It will help your application if your CV states, in broad terms, where you reside – there is no need for a full address.
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If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
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Job Ref: Barnsley 0009 7E7B / 1
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