Adult Social Worker, Fenland Community Team in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

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Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for an Adult Social Worker within the Fenland Community Team to work Full Time based in Cambridgeshire.

The salary for this Adult Social Worker job is up to £42,248 per annum.

Main duties:

• Provide professional leadership for complex case arrangements, in situations which involve risk, complexity and safety of the service user and others.
• Identifying through assessment the needs and strengths of service users and/or family carers and source appropriate solutions and interventions.
• Use analytical skills to inform assessment, decision-making and intervention.
• Complete support planning with service users to ensure that outcomes identified at assessment are met within budgetary constraints through the provision of support, equipment, adaptations and enabling programmes.
• Identify and take a professional lead on adult safeguarding issues where abuse or neglect is suspected.
• To provide more specialist social work practice skills and knowledge to make independent decisions and support situations in which risk, ambiguity or complexity is greatest.
• To provide written and verbal reports, appropriate for courts and other legal purposes, which are concise, informative, and based on complex evidence to support problem solving and resolution.
• Assess and manage risk, knowing how to intervene proportionately and ensuring people are protected from harm, whilst protecting their human rights.
• To contribute to the development of integrated services and policy and to promote new ways of developing service user care, taking account of resource constraints and national initiatives.
• To take a key role in promoting and developing service user empowerment and recognise diversity and anti-discriminatory practice in all professional practice in the team.
• Keep and maintain accurate service user records, in line with professional requirements and departmental recording methods.

Requirements of this Adult Social Worker job:

• A professional Social Work qualification or equivalent.
• Registered or eligible for registration.
• Have a good working knowledge of the relevant legislation.

Contact:
This Adult Social Worker job is advertised by Zehnn Young; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.

Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.