Adults Senior Social Worker, Cluster Team, London

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for an Adult Senior Social Worker within the Cluster Team to work full time based in Redbridge.

The salary for this Adult Senior Social Worker job is up to£58,323 per annum.

Main duties:

• Support the manager, team and service by providing professional leadership within an integrated service.
• Deputise for the team manager as required.
• Assist with overall responsibility within the team for assessment, care/support planning and review of people with a range of needs and their carers, working within a multi-disciplinary framework.
• Undertake the legal and statutory duties of the post as required by the Care Act, Mental Capacity Act, Mental Health Act and any other relevant legislation.
• Provides expert guidance on statutory duties, prepares court reports and attends court and court of protection hearings in order to provide expert evidence when necessary.
• Provide and develop specific specialist knowledge relevant to your professional role.
• Ensure people receive the required health and social care support within the community, prevent hospital admission and proactively work with the principles of admission avoidance.
• Support people to maintain their independence within their home and the community by ensuring an asset-based approach is used within assessments and support planning.
• To lead, support and work collaboratively with health colleagues to ensure people are discharged from hospital within agreed timeframes and with appropriate mechanisms in place.
• Promote and deliver new ways of working and evidence-based practice, within the service.
• Ensure the service user and carers needs and outcomes are met whilst utilising resources.
• Directly manages staff from both health and social care disciplines.
• Provide supervision, line management support, advice and guidance to members of the team and service as required.
• Ensure effective communication within the team and with colleagues internal and external to the organisation.
• Actively promote and implement principles and practices of working within an integrated health and social care framework.

Requirements of this Adult Senior Social Worker:

• A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Registered or eligible for registration.

Contact:
This Adult Senior Social Worker job is advertised by Stefan Garrett; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients'requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning'Best Candidate Care'at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.

Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.