Adults Senior Social Worker 5 Yrs

Senior Social Worker for Learning Disability Team -The main purpose of this job is to work as a senior social worker with a small complex caseload and supervisory responsibility for a group of staff within a large team managed by the operational manager.Risk management and safeguarding will be key parts of the role ; post holders will be expected to develop expertise in this area and offer advice to others. Post holders will also be expected to promote prevention and personalisation, and adopt a strengthbased approach in the management of all case work. We operate hybrid working. 1. To work as part of a multi agency team, ensuring integration and seamless delivery of services to service users and their carers. 2. Ensure risk management and adult safeguarding is effectively embedded within practice and responded to appropriately. Be aware of any potential children’s safeguarding concerns and liaise as appropriate with Children’s Social Care Services taking intoaccount children’s safeguarding procedure. 3. In personal professional practice (and that of supervised staff) promote an ethos of helping people help themselves or one another through initiatives to facilitate and support increased individual and community capacity. This includes utilising own resources,promoting social inclusion and community networks, reciprocal support and sustainable caring roles, through taking a strength based approach to assessment. 4. Maintain a strong focus on improved outcomes around independence and personalisation, including the promotion of enablement and linking the service user to community based support services that enhance personal wellbeing. 5. Promote the principles of self directed support and outcome based support planning, enabling service users and their carers to make choices about how their Personal Budget is managed and the services purchased to meet agreed outcomes. Manage own work and the work of others as delegated by the operational manager 6. Act as “Safeguarding Adults Manager” in designated cases; ensuring that all aspects of the safeguarding process has been carried out and has been appropriately concluded. 7. Carry out any assessments and service user reviews to a high standard and in a timely manner in accordance with procedures reflecting the needs and outcomes of the service user and carer. 8. Ensuring personalisation and choice and control is embedded in practice 9. Present cases to Vulnerable Adults panel for funding. 10. Chair complex case reviews and safeguarding adults case conferences. Supervision of staff 11. To work within a performance management framework, using performance management information to improve service delivery. 12. Offer professional supervision to social work staff on a regular basis, to be recorded and in line with the departments supervision policy 13. Ensure that supervised staff are offered personal appraisals in line with Council Policy and are appropriately directed to training and CPD opportunities. 14. Ensure that supervised staff are monitored in terms of their performance and conduct with any concerns being reported to the operational manager for advice on how to proceed. 15. Working as directed by the operational manager, audit and review electronic case records on a regular basis to ensure practice standards are met/exceeded. Take remedial action as necessary.