Job Introduction
An exciting opportuning has arisen for a Senior Practitioner to join our social work service based at Connections Day Service Radstock but work across the Bath and North East Somerset area. You will be working within our Specialist Services across our Learning Disabilities, Autism and Hearing and Vision Team.
We offer a close and supportive environment that recognises the importance of peer and reflective supervision. As a Senior Practitioner who will be encouraged to work autonomously, operating a strength-based approach to the work we do whilst upholding core social work values and principles.
You will undertake assessments and reviews with vulnerable adults with an autism diagnosis, adults with learning disabilities, and adults with impaired hearing and vision, their carers, and to work with service users to create care and support plans which meet their needs.
You will work Monday - Friday covering core hours of 9am - 5pm, with the flexibility to work remotely from home to support and maintain a work-life balance. This is a full-time position, there is room for flexibility within this upon discussion.
If you are an established Social Worker looking for the next step in your career, or an established Senior Practitioner already looking for a different environment, we would love to hear from you!!
Main Responsibility
As a Senior Practitioner you will manage a caseload which will include complex cases and will work independently and effectively, under the general supervision of a Team Manager.
Responsibilities will include but are not limited to:
- Provide leadership and assist the Service Manager with a variety of management tasks within the team.
- Play a lead role in supervising other members of the team and supporting social work students
- Chair Multi Agency Risk Management meetings (MARMs) and other complex case meetings
- Undertaking assessments and reviews of people with care and support needs and carers in accordance with the principles of the Care Act 2014
- Creating care and support plans which appropriately meet the needs of people with care and support needs and carers.
- Undertaking Mental Capacity assessments and, where appropriate, complete Best Interests Decisions in accordance with the Mental Capacity Act 2005.
- Undertaking risk assessments and work to reduce risk or engage with the person and MDT in well considered positive risk-taking strategies.
The Ideal Candidate
You will:
- Be a qualified Social Worker
- Registered with Social Work England
- Significant experience working at a Social Worker level or a Senior Practitioner already
- Have a Full UK Driver’s License and access to a car
Ideally you will have had experience working with wider range of adults including people with Autism, Mental Health Conditions or Learning Disabilities.
Package Description
As a Senior Practitioner you will be a valued member of our Social Work team at Radstock.
You will feel valued as Senior Practitioner within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £36,418- £39,540 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- *An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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