Social Work Officer

Social Work Officer
Haringey

Full time: 36/hrs a week
£23/hr
Start date: ASAP

AKTON Recruitment is working closely with the local authorities and we are looking for a Social Worker Officer in the Haringey area. Enhanced DBS required for this role.

Role Purpose

• This role will support vulnerable adults across the borough through the implementation of our strengths-based model of practice.
• This will include the assessment, review and development of support plans that help residents and their carers to maximise their independence, build on their strengths and improve their quality of life.
• This role will also assist social worker teams in managing more complex cases and will work closely with our partners in developing strong relationships and supporting creative new ways of ensuring outcomes are met.

Main Responsibilities
1. Working within strengths-based model of practice and holding a non-complex caseload to support residents to improve their independence and wellbeing by working closely with partners and maximising the use and benefit of community resources.
2. Undertake strengths-based assessments, reviews and support planning that enable residents to maximise their independence, improve quality of life and build their resilience.
3. Provide practical support to residents and carers, that helps support them such as accessing living aids: accessing the welfare benefit system in order to provide advice and information to service users.
4. Assist in arranging short term care and in providing clients and carers with respite to reduce carer breakdown
5. Work with adult clients, relatives, carers and communities to help them make informed decisions, enabling them to clarify and express their needs and contribute to support planning.
6. Liaise with colleagues across the Haringey health and social care partnership in order to gather information relevant to assessment and support planning activities.

Knowledge, Qualifications, Skills and Experience

• Examples and evidence which demonstrate your genuine motivation for continuing to develop a career in Adult Social care
• Awareness and understanding of the part that Adult Social Care plays in maximising the independence of vulnerable Adults - demonstrably gained experience or exposure to social care in a voluntary, paid or personal basis
• Evidence that you have researched the social care ethics and values and that you can explain what they are and demonstrate that you share these values and have behaved in ways that evidence this
• Examples that demonstrate that you have an achievement focus and have achieved or delivered what has been required and expected of you
• Ability to develop positive and productive relationships with people, including the ability to empathise, motivate and inspire as well as fulfilling your part of any requirement
• Ability to be creative and positive in identifying solutions with residents that maximise and build upon their strengths
• Ability to develop positive and productive working relationships with colleagues to deliver successfully both as an individual and as part of a team
• The ability to produce coherent and business like written communication such as high quality assessments, reviews, support plans and reports.
• Ability to plan and prioritise to meet deadlines and targets
• Knowledge and awareness of issues relating to communities from different racial and cultural backgrounds and Equal Opportunities
• Enhanced DBS check