Adults Senior Social Worker, Hospital Team, London

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for an Adult Senior Social Worker within the Hospital 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.
• 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 pro-actively work with the principles of admission avoidance.
• To lead, support and work collaboratively with health colleagues to ensure people are discharged from hospital within agreed timeframes and with appropriate support mechanisms in place.
• Have a knowledge of a range of complex equipment, to enable service users to be safe and independent whilst complying with relevant legislation and guidance.
• Ensure the service users and carers needs and outcomes are met whilst utilising resources effectively
• Develop, encourage and maintain high professional standards by supporting the service with practice and knowledge development, quality assurance and contribute to the strategic direction of the service.
• 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.
• Provide leadership, assessment, supervision and guidance to the team on the Mental Capacity Act, including Deprivation of Liberty, Best Interest Assessment and/or the Mental Health Act.
• Ensure that the team meetings performance requirements and outcomes.
• Actively promote and implement principles and practices of working within an integrated health and social care framework.
• The above-mentioned duties are neither exclusive nor exhaustive. From time to time you may be required to undertake responsibilities outside the normal remit of your JD as required by the line manager, and are broadly within your grading level and competence.

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.