Social Work - Senior Practitioner

Your responsibilities as a Senior Practitioner:

1. To undertake mental health assessments for the community needs and risks to encourage independence, provide support and prevent harm. This includes promoting a multi-agency approach in communities by developing and maintaining effective working relationships.
2. To undertake statutory intervention where individuals are deemed to be at risk, including situations where people may be neglected or abused in accordance with the Inter-Agency Policy and Procedures for Safeguarding Adults.
3. To work in partnership with service users and carers using a person-centred approach, with the aim of maximising independence, wellbeing and choice.
4. To hold a caseload appropriate to the level of expertise and provide support and expert advice to social care assessors, students and partners.
5. To provide mental health advice, information and guidance to service users and carers ensuring that that support plans and other information regarding individual care packages is shared with the service user, carers and other agencies as required in accordance with the Council's policies and procedures including those on data protection.
6. To facilitate service user choice and empowerment through promoting independence and the personalisation agenda through all stages of assessment, support planning and review to enable service users to maintain independence for as long as possible.
7. The Social Worker will monitor implementation of CMPH packages of care and support and adjust them as appropriate and to ensure that individual care packages, including funding arrangements for any services, are thoroughly reviewed in accordance with statutory requirements `and Council policy to ensure highest quality of service and best value.
8. To apply Social Work ethical principles and values to guide professional practice and respect diversity and apply critical reflection and analysis to inform professional decisions and use supervision to promote continuous professional development.
9. To ensure that information is recorded consistently, accurately and meets statutory timescales. To ensure that service user confidentiality is maintained, and that information is shared with the service user, care and other agencies in accordance with the Department's data protection requirements.

What you need:

• QSW Status - including qualification, Social Work England registration and completed ASYE
• A minimum of 2 years' experience
• Right to work in the UK

Benefits of working with Remedy

• A personal one-one service from your highly experienced dedicated consultant.
• Top tier supplier across London giving us first access to jobs
• Competitive Referral scheme
• Double payrolls each week.

*Terms & Conditions apply

You will be required to fully register with Remedy for all locum positions.

To be considered for this role, please apply with your CV to on the social care team.

Remedy Social Care is a REC Standard agency and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the vulnerable. Successful applicants will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the DBS. Our objective is to be an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from everyone with suitable skills and ability regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, gender, disability, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief. All applications will be accepted and reviewed solely on merit.

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