Senior Social Worker - Access and Duty

Senior Social Worker – Access and Duty Team – London

Location: London Borough of Hackney Council
Pay/Salary: up to £36 per hour
Office Working: Hybrid
Contract: Locum

We are currently working with the London Borough of Hackney to find a Senior Social Worker for their Access and Duty team in Adult’s Services. With a stable management team and a mostly permanent workforce, Hackney is looking for someone with solid experience to be able to pick up a caseload and support their service.

Duties

• You will be responsible for planning and monitoring tasks that enables the successful delivery of the business objectives of your designated team.
• Responsible for the effective appraisal and supervision of staff to deliver services that will achieve continuous improvement of the Council.
• To ensure compliance with Safeguarding Adults according to all relevant local and national policy and legislation.
• To support team members in maintaining and developing high professional standards
• Promote a strengths-based model of self-directed support to staff that seeks to enable service users and carers to determine their own solutions; which are outcome focused.
• To have specialist knowledge of key practice and legislation within Adult services, such as MCA/DOLS/BIA.MHA and Safeguarding. To represent the service in developing key service provision or local strategic initiatives. Develop and establish high standards of practice and to be accountable for service delivery in line with departmental standards working autonomously but also accountable to your team manager at all times.
• Liaise and work in partnership adopting a multi-disciplinary approach in line with integration plans for health and care across Hackney.
• Work closely with the Team Manager and Consultant Social Worker towards identifying priorities and achieving an appropriate balance between development and practice work.
• Keep accurate records of all work undertaken, including updating computer records.

What you need

• Social Work Qualification
• Social Work England registration
• Enhanced DBS (provided by us)
• Experience in an Access and Duty or similar service in Adult’s Services

Why use us?

At Sheldon Phillips, you are not just a number on a board, you are someone we get to know, creating a personal job search that is as individual as you are. Our expert team are trained to ensure that your needs are met, our compliance procedures are quick and efficient, while making sure you find the job you really want.

If you are interested in this Senior Social Work role in an Access and Duty team in Hackney, give Rhys Rafferty a call on 01635 226 350 or email rrafferty@sheldon-phillips.com

Referrals

Do you know someone who would be ideal and interested in this role? Refer them to Sheldon Phillips, and if we successfully place them into a Locum role, you receive a £300 Referral Bonus as a thank you. If you know any experienced social workers looking for their next opportunity, we’d love to hear from them. Terms and Conditions Apply.