- This role sits within a first response adults social care team. The core functions include assessment, support planning, long term support arrangements, and review of customers in the community with sometimes complex needs. The post holder will be required to carry out Mental Capacity Assessments. * To provide a social work service to an allocated caseload within the agreed performance management, quality assurance and budgetary framework and the highest standards of service are achieved.
- To act as a member of a team providing an effective, efficient and personalised assessment, support planning, and brokerage service to adult service users, carers and their families in order to deliver the key strategic aims of the organisation and to ensure that the citizens of Newham have access to high quality services which safeguard and promote their welfare.
- To ensure people are fully supported to have the best possible opportunities and are supported to exercise choice and control to meet the outcomes they define. The specific function requirements of the Access to Social Care Team is to complete assessments and support planning for new Customers or customers who require a reassessment. Along with Carers assessments and provide a crisis intervention response The successful candidate needs to be proactive, able to use one's initiative and work when necessary with limited supervision. Have good time management skills and organised as type work needs to be produced weekly to achieve performance outcomes. You need to be timely in ones approach to transfer to other services or through to completion as the Access to Social Care Team is a time limited service.
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