Details:
- Salary: £30 - 34 - Hour
- Job Type: Contract
- Job Status: Full-Time
- Salary Per: Hour
- Location: South West London London
- Date: 1 week ago
Description:
Requirements:
Social Work England Registration
Extensive Adults Social Work Experience
Experience of safeguarding vulnerable adultsThis local authority based near Twickenham is seeking an experienced Social Worker to join the Community and Advice Support Team (CAST), which is a Front Door Team to Adult Social Care.
The Social Worker in the Community Advice and Support Team will be responsible for working in a truly person-centred way offering residents the option to engage with the service in a way that suits them, including on the phone, video or face to face at local talking points.
Key Functions
Multiple place - based teams delivering a preventative offer to local people and unpaid carers approaching adult social care for the first time.
To promote good conversation and enable exploration of appearance of care and support needs to agree together and prescribe meaningful preventative support:
Strength Based Conversations to explore personal strengths, strengths in existing networks, build resilience in networks and link people in with local community strengths and supports.
Deliver preventative offers: Advice and Information (including signposting), Care Technology, Trusted Assessment of Minor Equipment, One Off Direct Payment and refer to Community Reablement.
Following robust exploration of preventative supports, eligible ongoing care and support needs to be explored via SSA Combined Assessment and Support Plan DASCPH Staff Guidance Assessments to enable support planning and proportionate review of any new long-term service.They are offering hybrid working and the expectation is that you will be going out to assess service users. The hourly rate is negotiable after the interview.
For further information on the role, send your CV in a Microsoft Word format to Jessel on or give me a ring on (phone number removed) Ext: 7153