Senior Social Worker - Transitions Team

Remedy Recruitment Group are currently seeking an experienced Senior Social Worker to work within Lewisham Councils Transitions Team.

Job Purpose

• To work as part of a multi agency team, ensuring integration and seamless delivery of services to service users and their carers.
• Ensure risk management and adult safeguarding is effectively embedded within practice and responded to appropriately. Be aware of any potential children's safeguarding concerns and liaise as appropriate with Children's Social Care Services taking into account children's safeguarding procedure.
• In personal professional practice (and that of supervised staff) promote an ethos of helping people help themselves or one another through initiatives to facilitate and support increased individual and community capacity. This includes utilising own resources, promoting social inclusion and community networks, reciprocal support and sustainable caring roles, through taking a strength based approach to assessment.
• Maintain a strong focus on improved outcomes around independence and personalisation, including the promotion of enablement and linking the service user to community based support services that enhance personal wellbeing.
• Promote the principles of self directed support and outcome based support planning, enabling service users and their carers to make choices about how their Personal Manage own work and the work of others as delegated by the operational manager
• Act as "Safeguarding Adults Manager" in designated cases; ensuring that all aspects of the safeguarding process has been carried out and has been appropriately concluded.
• Carry out any assessments and service user reviews to a high standard and in a timely manner in accordance with procedures reflecting the needs and outcomes of the service user and carer.
• Ensuring personalisation and choice and control is embedded in practice
• Present cases to Vulnerable Adults panel for funding.
• Chair complex case reviews and safeguarding adults case conferences. Supervision of staff

You will need to be:

• SWE registered
• Eligible to work in the UK

Why Choose Remedy?

• Competitive pay rates
• Access to exclusive roles that aren't available from other agencies
• 1st tier agency
• Up to £250 for each social work professional you refer to us who we place*

If you are interested and would like to find out more please apply to this advert with a copy of your updated CV. Alternatively, please send your CV directly