Senior Social Worker - R&A - South East London

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