Social Worker Lead Practitioner, PERM, Adult’s

Social Worker Lead Practitioner, PERM, Adult’s Services
Pertemps are recruiting for a qualified and experienced Adult Social Work Lead Practitioner to join the Older People and Learning Disabilities Service in Barnet on a permanent basis.

Key Duties:

• Mentoring and supervision to staff within the team ensuring professional standards and best practice.
• Ensuring that the responsibility of safeguarding adults at risk is a fundamental element of this job and that the principles are embedded in all procedures, practices, professional advice, decisions and support.
• Working alongside and when required deputising for the team manager to prompt an environment of a supportive team enabling them and yourself to work with individuals to promote and support independence choice and control with wellbeing at the heart of everything we do.
• Conducting individual complex assessments and safeguarding enquiries to establish clear, relevant, proportionate, and appropriate options for the individual to meet their identified outcomes.
• Working in partnership with adults, their families, carers and advocates, colleagues, external organisations to provide appropriate, professional social work support for vulnerable older people, adults with physical and sensory impairment or learning disability and carers

Salary: £45-£50k

Working arrangements: Barnet offer a 36 hour a week, hybrid working with a mixture of office and home working, although staff are welcome to be office based fulltime if they wish.

Benefits:

• Supportive and visible leadership, enabling staff to talk about opportunities and express concerns.
• Free parking where available near our offices.
• Modern office working environment including free tea and coffee
• Tools, processes, and investment in excellent learning and development that help staff to be happy, efficient and effective
• 31 days annual leave
• Staff discounts of up to 25% with over 1,500 retailers national wide
• Broad range of payroll benefits including cycle to work, eye care vouchers, car leasing, home & electronics, travel and gym membership
• Employee well-being service including confidential employee assistance
• Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme, which provides a valuable guaranteed income in your retirement together with security for your dependents.

 
Candidate requirements:

• Must have a minimum of 2 years UK experience working in adult social care as a social worker
• Must have experience of supervising or mentoring social worker staff
• Must have experience of complex case work

 
If this sounds like the role for you, please contact Aishah Hassan on
Aishah.hassan@pprsocialcare.co.uk for more information

We recruit across all areas of Qualified Social Work. If you are a Social Worker and this isn’t the role for you, contact us about other roles including IRO, BIA, MASH, LAC Children’s Social Work, Adult Social Work, Service Manager, Head of Service, Team Manager and Assistant Team Manager