Qualified Adults Social Worker

Qualified Adults Social Worker
Localities  
Location: West Midlands
Pay rate:  £35  per hour
Up to £150 per week accommodation allowance

We have opportunities for Qualified Social Workers within the Adults Service for a local authority in the West Midlands. This role is for Locum Social Workers in a supportive adult’s locality social care team within Community Wellbeing Directorate. This is a welcoming and supportive place to work. We are seeking an enthusiastic, self-motivated, professionally confident Social Worker to complement our permanent workforce. It is Essential that you can complete face to face visits.

We are looking for a Social Worker who enjoys fast paced work with experience of working with adults with physical disabilities, learning disabilities, mental health needs and older people. This local authorities Adult Social Care is looking for a qualified locum social workers with experience in adults’ community social work. This role has the benefit of having a wide variety of adult social work, including Care Act Assessments and support planning, using a strength based approach, CHC and s117 work, section 42 Enquiries, Mental Capacity Assessments and Community DoLS. 
We are looking for someone with strong interpersonal and organisational skills. You will have good communication and IT skills and an ability to work within set timescales. This local authority Adult Social Care uses Mosaic IT system so experience with this database would be an advantage, but training will be provided as required. 

This local authority is currently working a hybrid system of part office/part home based working. There is a requirement to be able to work face to face for two days per week in the office in This local authority and be able to travel throughout the county as required. If you are a qualified Social Worker and registered with Social Work England, with a strong commitment to promoting wellbeing through strength based practice, then a warm welcome awaits you in our beautiful and diverse rural county, rich in history and community. 
In return we will invest in you with regular supervision, and you will be part of a supportive social care team. 

Working in accordance with social care legislation and local government requirements, informed by the values and principles of social care; you will be supporting in the delivery of person centred, safe and effective social care services. Using your professional knowledge and experience you’ll make assessments and decisions about the most appropriate interventions. Applying your significant Social Work experience and excellent communication skills you’ll establish and maintain relationships with service users and other agencies to ensure services meet identified needs.
You’ll be committed to ensure positive and sustainable results of your interventions. Using best practice, you’ll strive to provide the best outcomes for children. Most importantly however, you’ll have a passion for supporting children and their families to ensure that they thrive and flourish. Our priority is to protect the most vulnerable and to be as efficient as possible.

Perfect candidate will be:

• Qualified Social Worker registered with Social Work England .
• SW, CSS, DipSW or Social Work Degree Creative, flexible and forward thinking in approach.
• Work in a Social Services Directorate or other Statutory or Voluntary Agency.
• Constantly striving for continuous improvement to provide the best outcomes for individuals and their families
• Able to use excellent mediation and negotiation skills on behalf of service users.
• Work with a range of client groups within an Agency
• Highly skilled at building meaningful relationships with children and families to engage them in assessments and plans
• Committed to providing our service users with a high-quality service
• Experienced in working in a multi-disciplinary, interagency basis
• Knowledge of legislation relating to general social work practice
• 4 Years plus Qualified

In this role you will:

• Use skills, knowledge, and experience to make full assessment of risks protection and social care needs.
• Manage an agreed case load.
• Use specialist communication skills to achieve optimum outcomes for service users.
• Devise individual care plans, taking account of diversity and promoting dignity and empowerment.
• Offer advice and support to unqualified staff and students to assist development.
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This is an agency post and Pertemps can offer you:-
Dedicated consultant who has access to all roles across the UK and is available for you to speak to, easy registration process, referral schemes and incentives, ongoing compliance managed for you, prompt and reliable payroll and lots more.

This role is ideally located for those travelling from;  Stoke on Trent, Newcastle under Lyme, Crewe, Stafford, Macclesfield, Knutsford, Norwich, Burton upon Trent, Birmingham, Leicester, Sheffield, Coventry, Dudley , Hereford, Leominster, Ledbury, Bromyard, Kington, Ross on Wye, Weobley, Pembridge.

We recruit across all areas of Qualified Social Work. If you are a Social Worker and this is not the role for you, contact us about other roles including IRO (Independence Reviewing Officer), BIA (Best Interest Assessor), MASH, Children Looked After, MASH, Safeguarding, Duty & Assessment,  Children in Need, Child protection,  EHCP, children in care, Children’s Social Work, Children with Disabilities, Fostering, youth justice practitioner,  Adult Social Work, Long Term, Mental Health,  Hospital Discharge,   Homeless Intervention, Service Manager, Head of Service, Team Manager and Assistant Team Manager.