Social Worker
Job Description
Job summary
We have a vacancy for 37.5 hours per week.
We are looking for a person-centred Social Worker to join our award-winning Urgent Care team. This is an exciting time to join the Community Crisis Response Team as investment allows expansion of roles in admission avoidance and the development of exciting new initiatives. All roles are valued members of this highly integrated team and you will gain great satisfaction in using your skills, in collaboration with trusted health and social care colleagues, to work with patients during their health crisis.
The team includes Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, General Nurses, Mental Health Nurses, Social Workers, Community Care Workers, Paramedics, support workers and coordinators. In addition, there are opportunities for working with Acute Response Practitioners within the team to expand your understanding of physical assessment and clinical reasoning of frail elderly patients in primary care.
CCRT promotes a culture of learning and improvement, and as part of our team you will have the opportunity to gain desirable interdisciplinary skills whilst maintaining your social care identity. Staff are supported with a regular training programme to meet team competencies, as well as encouragement to attend relevant professional courses.
Please note that this role may not be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route.
Please note that Livewell may close the job advertisement earlier than the specified deadline.
Main duties of the job
- Manages a day to day case load and will be required to assess and support people to live independent lives in the context of intermediate care criteria and statutory duties in order to enable vulnerable people to manage their own lives.
- The post holder reports to the Advanced Practitioner via annual performance appraisals and six monthly reviews, 1:1 meetings where case work can be discussed as necessary and regular professional supervision.
- Responsibility for holistic and partnership assessments of service users and their carers who have complex needs, utilising Social Work theories, personalised approaches models and methods to identify strengths and needs to inform appropriate interventions.
- Assess the urgency of a request for action and identify the need for legal and procedural intervention.
- Complete assessments through detailed conversations with all groups of clients that may include those with mental health illnesses, learning disabilities, substance and alcohol misuse, sensory impairment, acquired brain injuries and a wide range of physical disabilities.
- Assess the outcome of any intervention against need, professional standards and best practice under the Care Act 2014.
- Assess eligibility and negotiate immediacy of intervention against resources, risk and need. The post holder will need to have an awareness of budgetary constraints.
All Livewell Southwest staff are expected to able and willing to work across a 7 day service.
About us
Livewell Southwest is an independent, award-winning social enterprise delivering integrated health and social care services across Plymouth, South Hams, and West Devon, with specialist services in parts of Devon and Cornwall. Our teams work in community hospitals, GP practices, sports centres, and health hubs.
As an organisation with a strong social conscience we are guided by our values, kindness, respect, inclusivity, ambition, responsibility, and collaboration. We focus on transforming services to ensure sustainability, while empowering staff and those we serve.
We involve the people we care for, along with their families and carers, in shaping the care they receive, striving to deliver the right care at the right time and place. Centering our work on individual needs helps people lead healthy, independent lives.
We prioritise employees' development, offering protected CPD time, training pathways, leadership programs, and funding for qualifications like the Care Certificate and Nurse Training Scholarships. Our induction and preceptorship programs ensure a smooth transition into our organisation.
Livewell Southwest values diversity and encourages applications from all sections of the community, including those with armed forces experience, lived experience of mental health, neuro-diverse conditions and learning disabilities. If you need assistance or reasonable adjustments during the application process, contact the Recruiting Manager listed in the job advert.
Job responsibilities
Promote and uphold the privacy, dignity, rights, health and wellbeing of people who use health and care services and their carers, at all times.
Work in collaboration with colleagues to ensure the delivery of high quality, safe and compassionate healthcare, care and support.
Communicate in an open and effective way to promote the health, safety and wellbeing of people who use health and care services and their carers.
Supervise and/or train students and Band 5 colleagues as and when required to ensure their practice is safe and professional.
Provide supervision on a 1:1 basis or through peer supervision as and when required to ensure practice is safe and professional.
Support the delivery of induction training for new staff within the service as and when required to ensure practice is safe and professional.
Strive to improve the quality of care and support through continuing professional development (CPD)
Uphold and promote equality, diversity and inclusion.
To be legally literate with the Care Act (2014), the Mental Capacity Act (2005) and Human Rights Act (1998). To have a good understanding of the Mental Health Act (1983) and its subsequent amendments and the Children Act (1989).
To have an awareness of national policy and guidelines and how these should be used in practice.
Preparing legal documents for court and representing the organisation in a court setting.
Maintain contact with people who use our services either face-to-face, telephone or assistive technology such as video links and conference calls.
Design, implement and review care and support plans, which may involve the input of other professionals /disciplines.
Work to a number of protocols/procedures such as lone working, risk management and health and safety.
Complete carers assessments and seek feedback from people who use the service.
Learning some basic clinical skills to enable the undertaking of holistic assessments and liaison with the multi-disciplinary team.
Take an asset-based approach, including signposting to universal services, advice and information and considering the persons links and integration with their community and services such as advocacy.
Duty of candour and supporting people to make complaints if they wish too.
Maintain positive working relationships and communicate clearly with team colleagues, line manager, other professionals, people who use our service and their families/carers which may include highly sensitive issues.
Listen to and work in partnership with the people who use our services and families and carers.
Maintain professional conduct and communicate clearly when faced with competing demands and in situations that are potentially highly emotive, such as being challenged by families or other professionals.
Present evidence-based decisions and judgements about potentially complex/ ambiguous situations in a manner fit for the audience. This includes writing court reports, explaining legal requirements to people and their families and projecting social work values in a multi-disciplinary setting.
Working closely with the integrated locality teams, Ageing well MDT, GP and voluntary sector.
Act as a patient advocate as required ensuring individual needs, preferences and choices are delivered by the Service.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- You must hold a qualification in Social Work, such as postgraduate diploma, bachelors degree or masters level.
- You must have a valid Social Work England professional registration.
Desirable
- Any postgraduate qualifications relevant to social work, such as Graduate Certificate in Practice Education or Approved Mental Health Professional
Experience
Essential
- Proven relevant experience of working in the health and social care sector.
Desirable
- Experience of working with other professionals in an integrated service
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Knowledge of social work theories and models, the strengths and limitations and how they can be applied to practice.
- Knowledge of the legal framework relevant to social work, including the Care Act (2014), Mental Capacity Act (2005), Mental Health Act (1983) and subsequently in 2007; and The Human Rights Act (1998).
- Knowledge of the Professional Capability Framework and the standards set by the social work regulatory body, and maintaining professional ...
