Jobs, fresher vacancy - ASW, Mental Health • UK

Company: Pertemps

UK

Adult Social Worker - Mental Health£28.40 in line with MOUWest Midlands37 hours p/wAbout the role:• To provide professional social work, working alongside agencies, providers, healthcolleagues to assess and provide appropriate interventions.• To provide a high quality and effective social work service that involves engagingwith adults, carers, families, groups and communities in a timely manner and withinstatutory guidelines.• To assess need, plan and deliver focused intervention to safeguard adults withadditional needs and promote positive wellbeing.• To undertake varied and complex work, across early intervention and statutorylevels.• To work collaboratively with colleagues within the social work teams and alongsideagencies, providers, health, colleagues in order to promote the best outcomes forAdults with care and support needs.• The job involves direct contact and working with individuals, carers, families, groupsand communities, health, police, voluntary partners, commissioners, serviceproviders• The job involves the worker identifying suitable care and support packages thatprovide value for money. There is accountability for interventions that required careand support expenditure through the department or independently• The job involves direct responsibility for handling and processing sensitiveinformation, where care, accuracy, confidentiality and security are important.Principal Duties and Responsibilities:Corporate and Professional ResponsibilityResponsibility for own professional practice, as defined within corporate guidelines andpriorities; and social work professional standards. Take responsibility to ensure the practiceand learning of other staff where appropriate.To ensure that Customer Outcomes are achievedTake responsibility for own practice. Apply the principles of outcome led conversations /assessment and support planning and micro commissioning. Take responsibility in this areato ensure the practice of other staff, where appropriate. Quality assuring and authorisingown outcome led conversations/assessments within an agreed budgetary envelope. Ensureconversations/assessments are focused on supporting independence, demonstratingoptimum and proportionate use of available resources across the community,SafeguardingEnsure that children/adults with care and support needs are safeguarded by appropriatelyidentifying and reporting potential abuse. Ensure immediate protection of children/ adultswith care and support needs. Responsible for conducting safeguarding enquiries inaccordance with local safeguarding policy and practice procedures.Performance/SupervisionActive participation in the supervision process to improve performance and enhanceconfidence in own social work practice. Provide professional supervision and support toothers when/ where appropriate.Staff Development/CoachingTo actively participate and where necessary take responsibility for receiving and providingstaff development opportunities to apply critical reflection and analysis to inform decisionmaking. To be able to supervise others for example students and newly qualified andunqualified health and social care practitioners and impart best practice skills andknowledge.Resource UseTo take responsibility for the identification of suitable resources to meet the assessedneeds of individuals and carers informed by evidence based practice.Administration/MeetingsTo take responsibility for working in accordance with systems and quality standards forcommunication and administration in accordance with council and legal duties andresponsibilities.Specialist Skills and KnowledgeTo contribute to identifying, developing and evaluating specialist skills and knowledge inown and others practice.Joint WorkingTo demonstrate the ability, skills, knowledge to engage and carry out competent Care Actconversations with individuals, families, groups and communities and carers that identifiesrelevant partners who need to be involved in any social work interventionRisk Assessment & ManagementTo work in accordance with agreed risk assessment and management approaches tosafeguard the individual, families, groups and communities in all social work interventions.Knowledge• To develop knowledge in one or more specialist areas of your practice. Expand yourknowledge to inform the connections between this and other settings or areas ofpractice• To demonstrate knowledge and application of appropriate legal and policyframeworks and guidance that informs and mandate social work practice. Apply legalreasoning, use professional legal expertise and advice appropriately, recognisingwhere scope for professional judgement exists• To demonstrate and apply to practice a working knowledge of human growth anddevelopment throughout the life course• To recognise the short and long term impact of psychological, socio-economic,environmental and physiological factors on people’s lives, taking into account ageand development, and how this informs practice• To recognise how systematic approaches can be used to understand the person-inthe-environment and inform your practice• To acknowledge the centrality of relationships for people and the key concepts ofattachment, separation, loss, change and resilience• To understand forms of harm and their impact on people, and the implications forpractice, drawing on concepts of strength, resilience, vulnerability, risk andresistance, and apply to practiceSkills• To communicate skillfully and confidently in complex or high risk situations thatmodels and help others to develop communication skills• To sustain and model engagement with people in fluctuating circumstances andcapacities including where there is hostility and risk• To determine people’s needs and manage the associated risks• To liaise with other agencies on operational issues and deliver service in partnershipthat ensures quality and optimum and effective provision of services• To gather information quickly and effectively so as to inform judgement forinterventions including crises, and in response to challenge, or in the absence ofcomplete information• To communicate effectively in highly charged, complex or challenging circumstancesto a wide range of audiences for different purposes and at different levels.• To use assessment procedures discerningly so as to inform judgementAbilities• To demonstrate, maintain and expand a range of frameworks for assessment andintervention• To actively support and initiate community groups and networks, includingprofessional ones• To contribute to the development of the organisation’s information strategy andsystems• To act as a role mode and help others with appropriate information sharing• To act as a role model and help others to manage changing circumstances• To recognise and appropriately manage the authority inherent in your position What you need:A degree in Social Work or equivalentRegistered with Social Work EnglandCompleted relevant post-qualifying trainingEnhanced DBS checkExcellent communication and written skills Why Work with Pertemps Social Care? We’re committed to making your job search seamless and rewarding. Here’s what our candidates can expect: ✅ Your Own Consultant – Your contact will be a social care specialist who knows the sector inside-out, has great connections across the region, and provides the tailored career advice you need to ensure the next step is the best one for you. ✅ Simple, Online Registration – Our process is designed to ensure your registration journey is quick and straightforward.✅ Exclusive Roles – you have access to roles exclusive to us ✅ Great Incentives – We have an exceptional referral scheme. Recommend your friends and colleagues and earn an introduction fee of £250. We will pay you £250 if you find your own role ✅ State of the Art Compliance – We use powerful next-generation software to manage these critical processes are as quick, efficient, and stress-free as possible. ✅ Fast, Reliable Payroll – Get paid promptly and securely, every time. And much more to ensure your job-search is smooth and hassle-free. Our Roles We place Social Care Practitioners into a wide range of essential roles, including: Independent Reviewing Officer (IRO)Best Interest Assessor (BIA)Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH)Looked After Children (LAC)Fostering / AdoptionChildren’s & Adult Social WorkService Manager / Head of ServiceTeam Manager / Assistant Team ManagerOccupational Therapist If you’re interested in finding your next role in social care, we can help! Get in Touch Today! kaye.fleming@pprsocialcare.co.uk 07435 787 863 / 0161 804 7658 Take the next step in your social work career with us!