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SalaryWe have an exciting opportunity to join the Transitions Team as an Experienced Social Worker. In this role, you will be responsible for managing a caseload, supervising a team of four assistant care managers as well as sharing the transitions duty manager role.
Your next role
Within the Transitions team, we work closely with young people between the ages of 14 years and 25 years who may have a learning disability, physical disability or mental health needs and support them to prepare to enter in to adulthood and develop their independence as much as possible. This enables you, as a professional to get to know a young person and their family over a longer period.
You will be responsible for completing the Care Act Assessment in preparation for the young person turning 18 years old. During this time, you will be working in a multi-disciplinary framework with education, health, children services and supported employment services amongst others before the young person transitions to Adult Social Care. Following this, you will follow the care management process to review the support plan annually as well as continual planning for the future with the young person and their family.
You will be responsible for managing a caseload that may include capacity assessments, completing DOLS applications and attending MDT meetings.
You must be fluent in the English language (as a requirement of Part 7 of the Immigration Act “for the effective performance of a customer-facing role”).
Our transformation journey
Like all other local authorities, we are experiencing an increase in demand. As an organisation we know our Adults’ Services are on a rapid improvement journey which is why last year we started making big changes across the service to provide the best care for children and great conditions for our staff. This started with us recruiting an entirely new leadership team of experienced, forward thinking managers who are driving changes in the service and we aim to be one of the best Adults’ Services in the country.
Our Adult Practitioners’ Induction
A practitioner-specific, Swindon-specific induction programme, aimed at providing you with the information you need regarding the policies and procedures of Adult Social Care at Swindon Borough Council.
The induction programme incorporates a blend of face-to-face activities and e-learning modules aimed at consolidating and reviewing your knowledge of the key areas.
These key areas include:
• Understanding how to use our case management system
• Understanding the Safeguarding and Quality Assurance policies and procedures
• Understanding and using a strength-based approach
Improvements include:
• Multi-million pound investment in staff and support
• Significant restructure creating smaller Social Worker teams
• New intuitive IT system to cut down on desk time and make mobile working the norm
• High standards for management practice, support and supervision for staff
• Listening to our Social Workers by holding regular social work forums
• Implementing Liquid Logic and will be using this system from October 2023.
At the heart of it all is our desire to promote and cultivate a strong learning culture combined with outstanding leadership and supervision. Here is what you can expect to find when you arrive:
• Early help and community health practitioners co-located with our Social Workers, providing great working relationships
• Fantastic relationships with partner agencies such as the police and Swindon CCG
• Teams located within communities, providing a closer connection to the people we work with
Our new offer to you
We recognise that getting the best outcomes for our Adults means getting the best from you and we have listened to what our Social Workers and our Managers most value.
Please see our Rewards and Benefits offer for more details.
As an employee, you will receive a diverse and exciting environment in which to work, encouraging creativity and innovation whilst recognising the need to support ongoing personal development and a flexible work life balance.
For Swindon to thrive in the future, we need to lay the foundations now. It’s why our regeneration and transformation programmes are already underway. So, you’ll be joining us at an exciting time on our journey. We’ll look to you to share your knowledge, influence decisions and drive real, positive change. With your contributions, we’ll achieve our vision of a prosperous, re-vitalised Swindon together. And you’ll be proud to say it was made better with you.
Please see our Vison and Values page for more details
Your next steps
Read therole profile and select the Apply button where you will be redirected to the Swindon Borough Council website to complete our online application process. Clicking the ‘Apply’ button on this job website is not an application, you must register on the Swindon Borough Council website in order to be considered for the role.
For further information about the role please contact Hannah Ferguson, Team Manager – Transitions team at HFerguson@swindon.gov.uk
If you are experiencing technical issues submitting your application please email resourcing@swindon.gov.uk
