Social Worker/Senior Social Worker CLDT
Bognor Regis Area
Full-time, Fixed-term contract (Two years)
£27668-£33437 per annum

Interview date: 12th September 2017

As a Social Worker with the Western Community Learning Disability Team (CLDT), based at Durban house in Bognor Regis, you will undertake many roles from assessing need and risk management, adult safeguarding, mental capacity assessments, person centred care planning and crisis intervention. The focus of this position will be to undertake reassessments and to review current care packages.

The Western CLDT is a well-regarded, established, integrated health and social care team. The team consists of two Senior Practitioners, Social workers, Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Speech and Language Therapist, a Psychologist and a Psychiatrist.

This is an opportunity to work with experienced and committed health and social care colleagues, supporting progressive practice with adults with Learning Disability to enable people to be active members of their community and promoting true citizenship. You will need to be resilient and innovative in your response to the significant pressures upon adult social care. You will be part of a supportive team and will be supported by a programme of continuous training and development including supervision and management support to help you fulfil the role. We are currently trialling a number of initiatives of which you will be involved, giving you the opportunity to build you skills, qualities and aspirations you have for your future.

You will be expected to travel independently across the county and work autonomously, prioritise your work and respond flexibly to competing demands. You will have a clear understanding and working knowledge of legislation, current policies and national agendas relating to Adults with Learning disability.

As a qualified Social worker, you will have good communication skills to be able to nurture and build excellent working relationships within the multi-disciplinary team and with partners, customers, their families and carers. You will undertake occasional frontline duty at the first point of contact for the team and support the team duty worker, undertaking duty tasks on a rotational basis as a backup worker.

We offer an attractive benefits package including a childcare voucher scheme, flexible working and Local Government Pension Scheme. There will be an expectation that you will be able to perform at the relevant levels within the professional capability framework. You will be a qualified, registered social worker adhering to the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) standards of proficiency.