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Social Worker Level (Social and Healthcare Qualified), Huddersfield
Client: mbi Medical Ltd
Location: Huddersfield, United Kingdom
Job Category: Other
EU work permit required: Yes
Job Reference: 02f7e958a78d
Job Views: 87
Posted: 22.01.2025
Expiry Date: 08.03.2025
Job Description:
Undertake preventative work with service users to diminish safeguarding concerns, investigating concerns of significant harm and making appropriate use of legislation to safeguard and promote the welfare of service users.
Provide a Social Work service to individuals, their families and carers by assessing and identifying their needs and meeting them through direct therapeutic work, care planning and management. Be able to integrate a theoretical approach with practice.
Manage a caseload, exercising complex decision making in line with professional criteria and ensuring that case work is appropriately planned, critically evaluated and reviewed.
Engage effectively with situations of increasing complexity and challenge including multi-agency input, complex family organisational dynamics, multiple problems/disadvantage, and multiple significant risk factors, while considering the public interest.
Ensure appropriate care for service users, demonstrating innovation with existing mainstream and specialist resources. Accept responsibility for and supervision of service users provided with care services and undertake expert and robust review of such cases.
Provide expert witness testimony and give evidence to court and other relevant bodies as required, including presenting reports and applications for appropriate Legal Orders.
Work in partnership with other agencies and organisations to fulfil the provision of a Social Work service, representing the perspective of the organisation.
Maintain contact with a wide range of statutory and voluntary sector professionals for information exchange, exercising judgment and influencing outcomes in case planning and decision making.
Contribute to multi-disciplinary assessments, chairing and leading meetings when required, and participate in planning meetings and reviews, promoting information sharing within/between organisations.
Mentor newly qualified and less experienced Social Workers to develop their expertise and/or offer placements to Social Work students as a practice educator.
Self-manage a challenging and demanding workload of cases, seeking support where necessary, and undertake research to apply knowledge regarding emerging best practices.
Participate in the provision of training throughout the department, assisting in developing new resources, working on specialist projects, and acting as a member of a professional development or service planning group.
Identify and act on learning needs to participate continuously in professional development opportunities, including regular supervision and appraisal, in line with Social Work registration and HCPC standards.
Apply Social Work ethical principles and values to guide professional practice and decision making, including partnership, consultation, and the participation of service users.
Maintain up-to-date, accurate, concise, and purposeful records of work in line with departmental policy on case recording and access to files, producing high-quality assessments that accurately assess and manage higher levels of risk and complexity.
Act in accordance with the priorities and policies of the department, actively promoting and supporting council policies on equality and working in an anti-oppressive manner.
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