Social Worker – Adults Learning Disabilities
Sanctuary Personnel has an exciting Locum opportunity available for an experienced Social Worker to join a well-established Adults service based in Cambridge.
Team/Specialism: Adults Learning Disabilities
Pay Rate: £37 per hour (assignment rate)
Contract: Locum, 3-Months
Hours: Full-time
Benefits of working for Sanctuary Personnel:
* Effortless Registration: Our fully online and paperless registration service streamlines the process, making it convenient and hassle-free for you.
* Compliance Made Easy: Enjoy peace of mind with our free DBS and compliance service, which includes paid-for mandatory e-learning and practical training modules tailored to your needs.
* Exclusive Opportunities: Unlock access to prestigious roles that you won't find elsewhere.
* Expert Guidance and Support: Benefit from personalised clinical governance and revalidation support from our in-house qualified health professional.
* Rewarding Referral Program: Refer a friend and receive a generous £250 bonus once they've completed just 100 hours of work.
* Professional Development: Working as a locum provides opportunities for continuous professional development.
Main Duties:
* Provide professional leadership for complex case arrangements, in situations which involve risk, complexity and safety of the service user and others.
* Identifying through assessment the needs and strengths of service users and/or family carers and source appropriate solutions and interventions.
* Use analytical skills to inform assessment, decision making and intervention.
* Complete support planning with services users to ensure that outcomes identified at assessment are met within budgetary constraints through the provision of support, equipment, adaptations and enabling programmes.
* Identify and take a professional lead on adult safeguarding issues where abuse or neglect is suspected.
* Take a professional lead and oversee cases of individuals who lack capacity to agree to or plan their care, undertake proportionate assessment in accordance with current Adult Social Care legislation including Mental Capacity Act and Best Interest assessments.
* To provide more specialist social work practice skills and knowledge to make independent decisions and support situations in which risk, ambiguity or complexity is greatest.
* To act as the lead professional to services users and their carers and families to enable them to retain, as far as possible, choice and control of their lives.
* To provide written and verbal reports, appropriate for courts and other legal purposes, which are concise, informative, and based on complex evidence to support problem solving and resolution.
* Support in safeguarding process to assess and manage risk, knowing how to intervene proportionately and ensuring people are protecting from harm, while protecting their human rights
* Assess and manage risk, knowing how to intervene proportionately and ensuring people are protected from harm, whilst protecting their human rights.
Requirements of the Social Worker:
* Degree or equivalent in social work
* Current Social Work England registration
* Significant frontline experience in Adults Services
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We welcome applications from Social Workers who meet the above requirements.
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity.
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons.
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