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Senior Social Worker-Hospital Discharge Neighbourhood Team

Posted 5 days ago by Triumph Consultants Limited

£20.85 Hourly
Permanent
Not Specified
Temporary Jobs
Yorkshire, Leeds, United Kingdom, LS1 8
Job Description
What's involved with this role: Interim Senior Social Worker - Hospital Discharge Neighbourhood TeamReference no: Leeds / 1Pay Rate: £20.85 per hour PAYE 37 Monday - Friday, normal working hoursThis opening assignment is for 3 monthsCity: LEEDSEnhanced DBS disclosure requiredHybrid working
  1. Take a key role in supporting the team alongside the team manager including supporting less experienced staff with complex cases.
  2. Support with allocations and attending partner meetings in the absence of the team manager.
  3. Responsible for own case load which will be based both in hospital and outside of hospital. Such work will include supporting safe and timely discharges from hospital and reviewing care in temporary placements and in people's homes.
Key responsibilities:
  • 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
Key requirements:
  • Appropriate social work professional qualification (BSc, BA, MA, DipSW, CQSW, or equivalent) with significant post-qualification experience
  • Registration with the Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC)
  • 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
  • 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
Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.Clients are generally looking for candidates who are local to, orwho can commute easily to the place of work. It will help your application if your CV states, in broad terms, where you reside - there is no need for a full address.Please feel free to apply to us directly via by quoting the job reference and exact job title.If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles.Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please
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