Social Worker – Adult County Team

Position: Social Worker – Adult County Team

Location: Full Time based in Herefordshire.

Salary: up to £40,777 per annum.

Main Duties

• The Social Worker has day-to-day responsibility of the prioritisation of their own work and identification of issues of risk.
• The Social Worker represents the Community Wellbeing Directorate and Hereford Council in their day-to-day activities and will comply with all relevant policy and procedure affecting their role, including safeguarding.
• Provide regular and effective supervision to allocated Assessment and Enablement Officers, as required.
• Ensure any appropriate legal/financial arrangements are correctly in place for the provision of services to service users and carers in liaison with appropriate teams and panels.
• Ensure monitoring and reviewing systems are in place for clients on their caseloads and to ensure casefiles and electronic recording on Mosaic is current.
• Consider an enabling and strength-based ethos and approach to supporting service users and their families/carers and in joint working with partners and agencies.
• Follow the relevant procedures for ensuring that information and data is collected and recorded accurately to enable reliable analysis and reporting.
• Work in a way that is consistent with Councils Equal Opportunities, anti-discrimination and anti-oppressive practice policies.
• Undertake day duty and safeguarding duty when required.
• Work in conjunction with the registration and inspection units in monitoring good practice within local authority and independent sector residential and nursing homes.
• Work with nursing reviewing officers to ensure that under continuing care provision assessment for health services provision are undertaken when appropriate.
• Support hospital discharge arrangements for patients in liaison with hospital based professional staff and relevant agencies/teams to ensure safe discharge and prevention of admission.
• Identify where reablement (and/or other appropriate services) are appropriate and refer to relevant agencies.

Requirements

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

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