Kent County Council are looking for Qualified Social Workers for their Adults Community Team. Various locations available across South kent including Dover, Sandwich and Folkestone. Hybrid working arrangements are in place.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Deliver high-quality, person-centred care and support. Identify what is important to the people we support, and how they can live a life they want to live. Being involved in people's lives in the least intrusive way - and always in their best interests
2. Take a holistic 'whole family approach' to ensure that the person's needs are met and identify how their care and support impacts family members or others in their support network. Facilitate conversations with people we support, their families and their carers based on what matters most to the
3. Support people and their carers, family members or others in their support network, to build and maintain community links, and to live as independently as possible, for as long as possible
4. Undertake an active approach with people we support to check how they are, how things are going and if anything needs to change
5. Manage crisis intervention to meet immediate requirements and reduce risk. Undertake safeguarding enquiries and assessments as Inquiry Officer and/or Designated Senior Officer as directed by the Senior Practitioner/Manager. 6. Have or work towards advance practice skills/training including Best Interest Assessor, Practice Educator, Approved Mental Health Professional and undertake duties in line with minimum requirements.
7. Actively contribute towards a learning culture as set out in the practice framework by delivering high-quality, person-centred care across all specialisms. Focus on reflection and personal development through supervision, training and other opportunities
Connect2Staff/Connect2Kent, part of Commercial Services Trading/Kent Ltd, is an equal opportunities Employment Agency & Business and positively encourages applications from all suitably qualified and eligible candidates.