Senior Social Worker - R&A - South East London
- Posted 14 February 2019
- Salary £31.00 - £35.00 per hour + Depending on experience
- Job type Contract
- Discipline Social Care
- Referencehol-4876_1550157557
- Contact NameHolly Astrop
Job description
Remedy Recruitment Group are currently seeking an experienced Senior Social Worker to work within a Referral and Assessment Team for a Local Authority based in South East London.
Job Purpose
- To be responsible for undertaking all social work on allocated cases, or those worked with on a short term assessment basis
- To maintain accurate records of all work undertaken on behalf of the Directorate, and to ensure that service users are aware of their right to see such records.
- To ensure that service users are aware of their right to complain about the service they receive.
- To produce case reports and correspondence for a variety of readership, including meetings, conferences, court, other agencies and service users.
- To ensure that all work is undertaken in compliance with policies, procedures, guidance and legislation.
- To ensure that the needs of service users/carers from all communities are addressed, and that close attention is paid to equalities issues in all aspects of work.
- To participate in duty systems for the service unit, as appropriate.
- To develop and maintain effective working relationships at appropriate levels with other agencies relevant to the work of the unit.
- To input data, using Information Technology, as required
- To take responsibility for one's own, and others safety, by ensuring that team members and other staff are not knowingly exposed to risk of violence.
- To attend, contribute and participate fully in supervision, in accordance with the Department's supervision policy.
About you
- To provide supervision, as appropriate, to social workers, students and/or Social Work Assistants
- To undertake such project work as appropriate to the post holder's service unit
- To undertake cases with complex risk levels
- To take responsibility for decision making on duty on a day-to-day basis as appropriate
- HCPC registration
- Enhanced DBS
If you are interested and would like to find out more please apply to this advert with a copy of your updated CV. Alternatively, please send your CV directly