To manage a caseload of complex and difficult cases involving assessment, planning and implementation and evaluation of appropriate action to ensure resources are utilised effectively to safeguard and promote the welfare of Service Users.
To support citizens across Southend-on-Sea (including out-of-borough cases) with the aim to offer the appropriate support in the right place at the right time.
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Our client, Southend-on-sea is looking for a Practice Leader to join their Ageing well Team.
Southend-on-Sea City Council are looking to appoint a permanent A&I experienced Senior Practitioner to help deliver Social Work services within the Assessment and Intervention Team.
Your new role
You will be required to contribute to the overall performance of the team in order to meet service requirements, key performance targets and statutory requirements of social service legislation.Along with this, you will need to support and manage the duty system.
Southend-on-Sea City Council are looking to appoint a permanent A&I experienced Senior Practitioner to help deliver Social Work services within the Assessment and Intervention Team.
Your new role
You will be required to contribute to the overall performance of the team in order to meet service requirements, key performance targets and statutory requirements of social service legislation.Along with this, you will need to support and manage the duty system.
To undertake statutory social work with children who are Looked After, providing support, assessment of their ongoing and changing needs and interventions which will secure their welfare.
To undertake assessments of the needs of children, their families and formulate plans for those children in accordance with statutory responsibilities and departmental policies.
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Our Client Southend Council is looking for a Qualified Social Worker to join their Children Looked After Team in a permanent post.
The Health Assessment Advisory Service arranges and carries out assessments for DWP.
We have been awarded the Health Assessment Advisory Service contract for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) in South East England, London, and East Anglia.
This new service will launch in 2024 and will run for at least five years.
Southend-on-Sea City Council is a Unitary local authority employing around 1,800 staff working alongside our partners and local communities to deliver the Southend 2050 ambition and make lives better for the people of Southend.
Southend itself is a vibrant place to live and work, offering coastal living alongside excellent and fast transport links into London.The team is committed to working together with parents and carers, education settings and partner agencies to ensure children and young people with SEND are given the best opportunity to thrive and succeed.
We are recruiting for registered Nurses (RGN, RMN, RNLD), Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists (OTs) and Paramedics in Southend who want to use their clinical skills applied in a new way and benefit from the excellent work life balance and professional development that a career as a Functional Assessor can give you.
To carry out out telephone, video and/ or face-to-face functional assessments to establish any functional restriction caused by a claimant's health condition and or disability and to evaluate the overall functional effects on their everyday life, following the PIP and/or WCA guidelines.
Assessors will be expected to use DWP (Department for Work and Pensions) processes and systems and conduct high quality assessments in an empathetic and professional manner.