Adult’s Social Worker / Learning Disabilities Team

Adult’s Social Worker
Team: LD
Location: Leeds

Details:
LD team – must have LD experience

Job Purpose & Context:

Responsible for providing a high quality and comprehensive social work service to adults, carers and the community in accordance with statutory guidelines and the Authority’s needs, policies and practices. Responsible for managing a caseload involving high levels of challenging and complexity including the assessment and management of risk.

Accountabilities:

• Undertake a wide range of complex assessments including Community Care and Best Interest Assessments and construct innovative and cost-effective solutions
• Carry out Safeguarding investigations within multi-agency procedures
• Carry out risk assessments and identify needs and options
• Using a person-centred approach, develop and maintain effective relationships with service users, their families and carers enabling them to make informed choices
• Promote independence and early intervention, helping resolve conflict where needed
• Contribute to the enhanced screening of new referrals and existing service users
• Work in courts with appropriate support to obtain and implement court orders
• Contribute to the development of practice and services
• Carry out specific pieces of work on cases that are allocated to other teams
• Undertake the Practice Educator Level 2 role
• Participate in the Approved Mental Health Practitioner (AMHP) rota where qualified
• Undertake the office duty role as required

Skills, knowledge & experience:

• Considerable experience working in a statutory setting
• Planning, managing, prioritising and evaluating work with service users
• Providing a high level of effective written and verbal communication
• Overcoming resistance and exercising assertiveness where appropriate
• Negotiating, challenging and managing conflict
• Solving problems and innovating to promote positive change
• Supporting service plans
• Maintaining accurate service user records, assessments and following policy and procedure
• Chairing multi agency meetings and representing the Authority in a professional capacity
• Supervising, supporting, encouraging and advising qualified and non-qualified staff
• Using reflective practice techniques to critically analyse information to inform decision making and planning

Ashberry Recruitment would ask that applicants meet the following:

• DIPSW or equivalent qualification in Social Work
• Social Work England registration
• Enhanced and in date DBS certificate.
• Excellent communication skills and be able to make good decisions based on information available.
• Can work alone and within/contribute to a team/multi-agency set ups
• Possess knowledge of service needs.
• Competent IT skills and be able to navigate electronic file/recording systems.
• Can write clear, concise, and robust assessment/reports/files.
• Have a flexible approach to work and working hours when the need arises

Why Ashberry?

• Dedicated experienced Consultant providing the ultimate support through your job search
• Friendly compliance team to guide you through the registration and placement process
• Provides your essential Enhanced DBS
• £250 Referral bonus.