Senior Social Worker

• promote and lead the social care agenda, acting in accordance with the principles of personalisation, working to promote wellbeing, and enabling individual's rights to choice and control
• carry out complex assessments of need, plan and deliver services and review outcomes with the individual, their personal support networks and support providers
• ensure practice within the team is responsive, inclusive and community based with a clear focus on outcomes and bring your professional expertise to your work with complex cases
• supervise the social care staff within the team and support the wider team with social care
• manage the provision of assessments under the Care Act 2014 and the reviews of packages of care
• work collaboratively with community partners to ensure individuals and families are supported and their needs are met
• act as a champion and leader of social care within the locality/quadrant
• be professionally registered.

• leadership and management training opportunities
• 5% on top of basic salary high cost allowance supplement (subject to a minimum and a maximum payment pro rata)
• 27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service) plus bank holidays (pro rata where applicable)
• One of the UK's best pension schemes
• Comprehensive health and wellbeing services
• Special leave for family and personal reasons
• NHS Car Lease Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme

Essential

• An appropriate professional social work qualification
• Registration with General Social Care Council
• Education to degree level
• Masters Degree or equivalent training
• Approved Mental Health Professional training and qualification (or prepared to undertake training within a year of appointment)
• Relevant post-qualifying training for social workers

Desirable

• Other post-qualifying training e.g. CBT, family therapy
• Best Interests Assessment training

Essential

• Stong post qualification experience with demonstrable evidence of excellent practice at a high level
• Extensive knowledge of legislation, statutory guidance, theory and policy in relation to relevant adult and children's social care.
• Experience of undertaking assessments,focused as personalisation, choice and control, and care planning Understanding and experience of personal budgets and direct payments
• Experience of supervising and mentoring staff
• Experience of multidisciplinary working and evidence of collaborative work
• Experience of partnership working with service users and carers, demonstrating dignity and respect particularly in very challenging situations
• Experience of work as Approved Mental Health Professional.

Desirable

• Experience of work as a Best Interests assessor

Essential

• Excellent ability to communicate with a wide range of stakeholders including service users and carers, other professional colleagues, members of other organisations and local communities, verbally and in writing.
• Evidence of successful management of difficult meetings.
• Ability to manage highly sensitive information
• Experience of using electronic recording systems and ability to produce accurate, appropriate and timely reports

Essential

• Ability to analyse service user and carer information.
• Experience of undertaking small scale audits and surveys.

Desirable

• Understanding of basic research methods

Essential

• Demonstrable ability to working sensitively with diverse needs and environments
• Commitment to anti-discriminatory practice

Essential

• Ability to visit and attend meetings at a variety of locations and environments Experience of using computer - PC
• literate to ECDL standard
• Able to travel between bases and offices, as required, using suitable mode of transport.

Essential

• Ability to meet timescales and respond to crises and appropriate

Essential

• Flexibility and ability to respond to a variety of tasks, and to prioritise own workload
• Ability to manage others and convey information which may be contentious sensitively so that it achieves required improvements and outcomes

Essential

• Ability to deal with distressing and sometimes aggressive behaviour of service users, carers and colleagues

Essential

• Experience of working in an integrated health and social care environment