Job description

Job responsibilities

1. Undertake a range of tasks which could include investigation of adult safeguarding issues, carrying out assessments of need, analysis and planning, assessing and managing risk, commissioning support and reviewing.

2. Identify and appropriately report children and adult safeguarding concerns, liaising with key agencies to gather information and acting as Investigating Officer as delegated.

3. Work with a range of legal interventions and departmental policies and procedures to support outcome-based planning for adults.

4. Work directly with adults in need, carers, families and their communities to support people to make informed decisions and choices, empowering them to express needs and participate in the decision-making process.

5. Work with partner agencies and adults in need and their carers and families to enable them to build networks of community support and maintain their independence for as long as possible.

6. Maintain good case recording and present reports to panels and in court as appropriate.

7. Contribute to the learning of social work students, newly qualified social workers and other team members, for example through group supervisions and mentoring.

8. Evidence ongoing commitment to continuous professional development and undertake relevant training in line with the Professional Capability Framework.

Mental Health addendum

9. In addition to the tasks outlined above, Social Workers working in Mental Health Services will also be required to do the following:

10. To train as an Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) two years after successful completion of the formal ASYE programme.

11. To act as an AMHP and contribute to AMHP rotas as required. This may involve continuing to work after 5pm on duty days.

12. To complete relevant training in order to provide practice placements for AMHP students in training.

Job responsibilities

1. Undertake a range of tasks which could include investigation of adult safeguarding issues, carrying out assessments of need, analysis and planning, assessing and managing risk, commissioning support and reviewing.

2. Identify and appropriately report children and adult safeguarding concerns, liaising with key agencies to gather information and acting as Investigating Officer as delegated.

3. Work with a range of legal interventions and departmental policies and procedures to support outcome-based planning for adults.

4. Work directly with adults in need, carers, families and their communities to support people to make informed decisions and choices, empowering them to express needs and participate in the decision-making process.

5. Work with partner agencies and adults in need and their carers and families to enable them to build networks of community support and maintain their independence for as long as possible.

6. Maintain good case recording and present reports to panels and in court as appropriate.

7. Contribute to the learning of social work students, newly qualified social workers and other team members, for example through group supervisions and mentoring.

8. Evidence ongoing commitment to continuous professional development and undertake relevant training in line with the Professional Capability Framework.

Mental Health addendum

9. In addition to the tasks outlined above, Social Workers working in Mental Health Services will also be required to do the following:

10. To train as an Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) two years after successful completion of the formal ASYE programme.

11. To act as an AMHP and contribute to AMHP rotas as required. This may involve continuing to work after 5pm on duty days.

12. To complete relevant training in order to provide practice placements for AMHP students in training.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Engage effectively using creativity, compassion and authority to overcome resistance, build relationships, and communicate while maintaining professional boundaries with children, families and carers in complex, variable and emotionally challenging situations. to facilitate access to opportunities that may enhance their economic wellbeing
• Ability to promote, develop and establish effective, collaborative partnerships and networks to promote appropriate information sharing, and utilise the expertise of external agency professionals, service users and carers
• Able to manage workload independently, applying critical reflection and analysis to maintain, develop and apply a range of effective judgements, and assessments, utilising a wide range of evidence and hypotheses to inform decision making, assessment and timely intervention to progress complex cases and safeguarding interventions
• Able to demonstrate accountability and effective judgement when anticipating, identifying, assessing and managing risk, seeking support and solutions where appropriate
• Able to articulate a positive social work identity and application of power and authority
• Apply the principles of social justice, social inclusion and equality decision making in all casework, challenging issues of discrimination and oppression and demonstrating the confident application of ethical reasoning to professional practice
• Able to demonstrate knowledge of, and competence against the 9 domains of the Professional Capability Framework at social work level
• Demonstrate knowledge of appropriate legal and policy frameworks and an awareness of current case law, that informs and mandates social work practice
• Understand forms of harm and their impact on people, and the implications for practice, drawing on concepts of attachment, loss, resilience, vulnerability, risk and resistance
• Awareness of changing contexts at local, national and organisational level and their implications for practice
• Experience of completing needs assessments upon which effective plans are based
• Able to make use of research to inform practice
• Demonstrate personal and professional resilience
• Able to demonstrate awareness of own professional limitations, personal values and knowledge gaps, to critically reflect on the influence and impact on professional practice and engage in regular supervision to improve practice and career development
• Work positively with others and contribute to team working and a learning environment for self, team and colleagues
• Able to meet the travelling requirements of the post

Qualifications

Essential

• Social work qualifications and registered with the professional regulatory body
• Successfully completed Assessed and Supported Year in employment, or the equivalent if prior to 2012, (NQSW year and academic module) or equivalent.

Desirable

• Academic /post graduate learning relevant to the post
• Level 1 Practice Educator Professional Standards (Enabling Learning or equivalent)
• Demonstrate an understanding of social welfare policy
• Demonstrate understanding of politico-economic environment and its influence on statutory social work delivery
• Experience of working within a legal framework
• Experience of implementing care plans and actively working adult protection plans
• Experience of contributing to the learning of student social workers

Experience

Essential

• Engage effectively using creativity, compassion and authority to overcome resistance, build relationships, and communicate while maintaining professional boundaries with children, families and carers in complex, variable and emotionally challenging situations. to facilitate access to opportunities that may enhance their economic wellbeing
• Ability to promote, develop and establish effective, collaborative partnerships and networks to promote appropriate information sharing, and utilise the expertise of external agency professionals, service users and carers
• Able to manage workload independently, applying critical reflection and analysis to maintain, develop and apply a range of effective judgements, and assessments, utilising a wide range of evidence and hypotheses to inform decision making, assessment and timely intervention to progress complex cases and safeguarding interventions
• Able to demonstrate accountability and effective judgement when anticipating, identifying, assessing and managing risk, seeking support and solutions where appropriate
• Able to articulate a positive social work identity and application of power and authority
• Apply the principles of social justice, social inclusion and equality decision making in all casework, challenging issues of discrimination and oppression and demonstrating the confident application of ethical reasoning to professional practice
• Able to demonstrate knowledge of, and competence against the 9 domains of the Professional Capability Framework at social work level
• Demonstrate knowledge of appropriate legal and policy frameworks and an awareness of current case law, that informs and mandates social work practice
• Understand forms of harm and their impact on people, and the implications for practice, drawing on concepts of attachment, loss, resilience, vulnerability, risk and resistance
• Awareness of changing contexts at local, national and organisational level and their implications for practice
• Experience of completing needs assessments upon which effective plans are based
• Able to make use of research to inform practice
• Demonstrate personal and professional resilience
• Able to demonstrate awareness of own professional limitations, personal values and knowledge gaps, to critically reflect on the influence and impact on professional practice and engage in regular supervision to improve practice and career development
• Work positively with others and contribute to team working and a learning environment for self, team and colleagues
• Able to meet the travelling requirements of the post

Qualifications

Essential

• Social work qualifications and registered with the professional regulatory body
• Successfully completed Assessed and Supported Year in employment, or the equivalent if prior to 2012, (NQSW year and academic module) or equivalent.

Desirable

• Academic /post graduate learning relevant to the post
• Level 1 Practice Educator Professional Standards (Enabling Learning or equivalent)
• Demonstrate an understanding of social welfare policy
• Demonstrate understanding of politico-economic environment and its influence on statutory social work delivery
• Experience of working within a legal framework
• Experience of implementing care plans and actively working adult protection plans
• Experience of contributing to the learning of student social workers

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

East Sussex County Council

Address

St Anne's Centre

729 The Ridge

St Leonards-on-Sea

TN37 7PT

Employer's website

https://www.eastsussex.gov.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)