Social Worker
Job Description
Job summary
37.5 hours per week.
Exciting Opportunity for a Social Worker!
Join Livewell Southwest , a leader in integrated health and social care, and make a difference in Plymouth! We're looking for a motivated Social Worker committed to strengths-based practice to work with health funded individuals ensuring they have the best care possible.
What We Offer:
- Collaborative Environment: Work within a multidisciplinary team (MDT).
- Diverse Roles: Support health-funded individuals across Learning Disabilities, Mental Health, and Long-Term Conditions.
- Strong Support: Benefit from guidance by a dedicated social work manager.
Your Impact:
- Help clients achieve person-centered outcomes.
- Engage in a shared skills model for seamless care.
If youre ready to elevate your career and create positive change, we want to hear from you! Join us at Livewell Southwest!
The position offered to the successful applicant will be based on service need and the skill mix of the existing teams and applicants and can include 7 day a week working.
This role may not be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route.
Please note that we may close the job advertisement earlier than the specified deadline if a high number of applications are submitted. Therefore, we recommend you submit your application at the earliest opportunity.
All Livewell staff are expected to be able and willing to work across a 7 day service.
Main duties of the job
The post will use social work skills to primarily support health funded individuals
The post holder is required to discharge statutory social care functions on behalf of the organisation and to uphold the standards outlined in the Professional Capabilities Framework for Social Work. As such, they are required to undertake complex and proportionate assessments that are evidence-based. Examples include mental capacity assessments and health and social care assessments of people who have a variety of needs that may create a high level of risk to their wellbeing. The post holder is also required to arrange and review the delivery of social care support.
Wherever possible the post holder is required to support people to take risks in complex situations so that their outcomes and wishes are promoted. The post holder is also required to undertake safeguarding investigations and consider decisions made in a persons best interest that may deprive them of their liberty.
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.
To be legally literate with the Care Act (2014), the Mental Capacity Act (2005) and Human Rights Act (1998).
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
Social workers primarily work with people in complex situations. Complex is defined as - unpredictable or ambiguous situations where the person may be resistant, coerced or a significant risk to self and others. These situations are often time-consuming owing to the multiple factors that have led the person to becoming socially excluded. Decisions require proportionality and analysis of many different views and factors, such as psychological, biological, legal, environmental and economical.
Livewell Southwest is fully committed to an integrated health and social care workforce which operates a shared skills model, whilst adhering to the core principles of the social work profession.
MAIN DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES
Responsibility for People Management
- 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.
Responsibility for financial and/or physical resources
- Responsibility for the occasional short-term security of a persons cash, legal documentation or valuable items (e.g. house keys) until they can be securely deposited.
- Duty to consider best value option when planning for peoples care and support.
Responsibility for administration
Plan and organise day-to-day work using an online calendar, recording systems, and workload management tools (that are available on the intranet) in accordance with departmental guidelines.
Ensure records are timely, kept up-to-date, accurate and used in accordance with the GDPR and organisational guidelines.
Have a good understanding of the various computer programmes essential for the completion of daily work, such as Microsoft office.
Arrange and plan meetings with colleagues and/or people who use services and be willing to chair them if required.
Responsibility for people who use our services
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.
Responsibility for implementation of policy and/or service developments
Contribute ideas (and advocate on behalf of the people who use our services) towards the development and implementation of policies and/or services.
Work in other teams and across the organisation in order to support organisational demands and pressures.
Represent the team/organisation on planning or developmental groups as and when required.
A flexible and adaptable approach to organisational change.
Other Responsibilities
Correct use of computer hardware/software; security; processing and generating information; creating, updating and maintaining information databases.
Awareness of current social care research trends and to take part in development activities, such as Safeguarding Adult Reviews.
COMMUNICATIONS AND RELATIONSHIPS
Maintain positive working relationships and communicate clearly with team colleagues, line manager, other professionals, ...
