To hold an individual caseload of varying degrees of complexity excluding casework that requires the expertise of a qualified professional.
To use strengths-based approaches to assess, monitor and review the social care needs of service users and informal carers and find appropriate solutions and make appropriate referrals to external agencies within a preventative, enabling and rehabilitation framework and universal services in accordance with the Care Act eligibility criteria.
Take responsibility for managing casework with the supervision of a qualified senior practitioner within an outcome focussed approach and within the teams expected performance targets and outcomes, whilst promoting independence and assessing and managing risk.
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Support those who have been out of work for longer periods might need extra help to move back into employment.
As a Client Advisor on the Restart programme, you will work with adult job seekers who are preparing to move into employment, helping them to identify and address the barriers that make this difficult by providing exemplary case management, including support, advice, advocacy and signposting to relevant services.
The Restart Scheme will break down employment barriers that could be holding people back from finding work.
As the Principal Social Worker consultant you will lead Adult Social Care in ensuring there is good quality practice and continued professional development with strength based practice and self-directed support being at the centre of social work delivery.
This is a 3 month contract as the Principal Social Worker to improve strength based practice across Bexley Adult Social Care following feedback from an LGA peer review and building on the work with the public sector consultancy firm Impower in relation to this.
It should noted that a key aspect of the contract is to co-produce a new practice framework for strength based practice with staff and people with lived experience which builds upon our Adult Social Care Vision.