Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: 37 per week
We currently have three Senior Social Worker vacancies in our Wellbeing & Access Hub:
1x Senior Social Worker to be based at St Marys Hospital supporting our Wellbeing & Access Hub Duty Team, working closely with our health colleagues.
2 x Senior Social Workers based at County Hall supporting our Wellbeing & Access Hub Team.
Our Wellbeing & Access Hub is the front door of Adult Social Care and this is your opportunity to join our dedicated team of professionals, supporting strength-based practice, working with the community and our third sector partners.
Our team consists of multidisciplinary staff; including occupational therapy, partner agencies from the third and voluntary sector, reablement teams, trusted assessors, social workers and other staff, all able to provide expert advice and guidance to support those we serve.
You'll support the Wellbeing & Access Hub Team with referrals and daily calls from the public, supporting people to remain as independent as possible in the community and preventing a need for more formal support. We do this using a strengths based initial screening tool, to promote independence and collaborative working with people rather than using a dependency model approach.
As a Senior Social Worker in our team, you'll hold a limited caseload (which tends to be more the complex and challenging cases) for example, the role of the Hospital Senior Social Worker supports with complex discharges, offering information and advice to patient and family, assessing care and support needs prior to discharge.
You will be required to deal with crisis situations and will need a good understanding of risk and risk management. You'll be expected to chair meetings, for example Best Interest of MARM. You'll also provide quality control and authorisation of assessments and support plans along with giving information and advice to staff, supporting staff to learn and develop their practice.
Supervision is key to this role, and is cascaded throughout the team. You'll be supervising several of the qualified Social Workers and Occupational Therapists within the team.
We understand the challenging work you do each and every day, and we will provide the support you need to make a difference to the people of the Isle of Wight. When you join our team, you'll benefit from a unique and enriching environment within an organisation that values strong leadership, a good work life balance, quality management and reflective supervision.
To join us you must:
· Be suitably qualified with a Social Work degree.
· Enjoy working in a fast-paced environment.
· Have experience of chairing meetings.
· Demonstrate skills and experience of promoting a person centred and strengths-based approach.
· Have a good knowledge and understanding of Safeguarding, s.42 Enquiries and Making Safeguarding Personal.
· Be confident in decision making, whilst knowing when to seek support.
· Understand the importance of data in supporting staff, teams and wider service.
· Promote people’s strengths and make a difference using a safe working approach to social work practice.
· Work as part of a team, with capacity to lead, focusing on the strengths of individuals, families and community.
· Share our ambitions, passion and attitude to ensure the people we serve live the best lives possible.
· Be a critical thinker who has competence and confidence in your practice.
You will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the following
· The Care Act 2014
· Mental Capacity Act 2005
· Data Protection Act 1998
You'll demonstrate the ability to work to practice guidance/procedure and you'll implement and promote departmental safeguarding procedures, adhering to departmental recording policy as well as attending multi-agency discharge planning meetings.
You'll also support carers and family members sharing and advising where required as well as offering Carers Assessments in line with the Care Act 2014.
Team IWC Values:
· Community & Customer focused.
· Effective & Efficient.
· Working together.
· Fair & transparent.
We are proud of our commitment to offer:
· Support and supervision to all our social care workforce.
· Opportunities for staff as they develop and progress their professional careers.
· Providing regular training opportunities.
For further information about this vacancy or for an informal discussion, please contact Maria Blazeckova via email Maria.Blazeckova@iow.gov.uk
PLEASE NOTE: Out of Hours Standby and Call Out
You will be required to take part in the Out of Hours Stand-by Duty Rota as and when requested by management. Standby and call out duties are paid in accordance with the IWC Terms and Conditions 2012 document.
When you join #TeamIWC you'll receive our staff benefits package, including:
- Annual leave entitlement of 32 days p/a PLUS public holidays!
- Local Government pension scheme
- Discounted Solent ferry travel
- Island bus network discount
- Cycle to work scheme
- Staff parking permit scheme
- Discounted island sports & leisure gym membership
- National and local discounts & benefits schemes
Relocation: For some vacancies (subject to criteria) a relocation scheme of up to £8,000 may be available if you are specifically relocating to the Isle of Wight to work with us, or if you choose to commute to the Isle of Wight daily, you may be eligible to have some travel costs reimbursed.
The Isle of Wight Council currently does not have a license to sponsor overseas workers.
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The Isle of Wight Council is an equal opportunities employer, who is proud to encourage applications from all cultures, backgrounds and abilities to better reflect the diversity within our local community. In addition to this, we are also a Disability Confident Employer. Along with a number of other areas of commitments, this means that providing you meet the basic essential requirements of the advertised role and have declared yourself as disabled, you will be offered an opportunity for an interview within the council.
The Isle of Wight Council is committed to supporting all newly qualified social workers (NQSWs) through the implementation of a robust post graduate competency framework referred to as the Assessed and Supported Year of Employment (ASYE). The ASYE is intended to be the first stage of the continuing professional development for Registered Social Workers, and the framework will be closely allied to the Professional Capabilities Framework (PCF). You will be therefore, be required to satisfactorily complete the ASYE programme within a 12-month period (or 18 months if part time).
If you have difficulty completing your online application or if you need further information about how to apply, telephone 01983 823134 or email callcentre@iow.gov.uk. Please note only applications completed and submitted online by the closing date will be accepted.
We often receive a high volume of applicants for our vacancies. If you do not hear from the recruiting manager within three weeks of the closing date, we regret that your application will not have been successful on this occasion. If unsuccessful, we actively encourage you to revisit our job pages and apply to alternate posts that may be suitable.
Closing Date: 16 October 2024