Overall Purpose of Job

• This role sits within the Preparing for Adulthood social care team. The core functions include assessment, support planning, long-term support arrangements, and review for customer in the community with 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 that 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.