Job description
Job purpose:
- To provide quality assurance of practice and processes across the whole of Adult Social Work
- To develop and support adult social work processes.
- To drive improvement and raise practice standards through working with the Head of Safeguarding Adults to ensure a robust audit framework is in place.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Supporting the provision of a resident-focused and efficient service to residents within the Borough.
- Supporting the service to ensure practice across teams ensures adults at risk of abuse are safeguarded.
- Ensuring the service complies with the principles of equal access and non-discriminatory practice and is accessible to all members of the community.
- Ensuring the assessment and meeting of eligible needs through a personalised approach of people, ensuring effective use of reablement resources to increase resident’s independence and reduce demand on social care services.
- Promoting a strong partnership working culture across Adult Social Work teams ensuring the delivery of good standards of assessment, care and personalised support and to work with health service colleagues to develop integrated approaches to the care and support of service users.
- Maximising the contributions of intermediate care and early intervention in supporting people at home.
- Maintaining an overview of all court and legal proceedings ensuring that planning for any vulnerable service user is of a high quality, timely, adheres to judicial protocol and that the Council is well regarded in this area by the courts.
Requirements:
- Social Work Degree.
- Registration with Social Work England.
- Ability to work in partnership to implement service-wide change while maintaining staff cohesion and operational delivery standards.
- Understanding and knowledge of local and national policy and legislative in adult social care.
- Experience of using Case Management systems (such as IAS) and working with ICT/systems experts to enhance and configure functionality.
- Enhanced DBS, dated within the last 12 months. On the update service? You could be fast tracked through our recruitment process today.
- Willingness to complete an enhanced DBS if you do not currently hold one.
Working with Archer Resourcing Ltd:
We have been helping all health care professionals find exciting new roles for a number of years, so we know exactly where to look when it comes to sourcing the best opportunities. We operate across the UK, and, with amazing relationships with the biggest employers in UK social care, we give you the best chance of landing your next role.
We have a reputation for recruiting efficiently, however, we can only respond to candidates who meet the exact requirements of the position. If you have any queries about a role or application, then please call Archer direct on the provided contact details.
We also offer a £250 referral bonus should you know of anyone who may be interested.
Must be eligible to work in the U.K