Qualified Social Worker | Adult Early Support Team

Are you an experienced Adult Social Worker?

Do you have safeguarding experience?

Are you passionate about making a difference to someone's life?

Yes?

Randstad are recruiting for a Qualified Social Worker to join Manchester City Council's Adult Early Support Team. This is a full time role offering a great pay rate of 30 per hour.

Benefits:

• Hybrid working
• Mileage reimbursement
• Supervision
• Competitive rates of pay
• Weekly pay
• One committed and dedicated point of contact
• An unlimited referrals incentive, giving you a 300 voucher for anyone you refer to us (T&Cs apply)
• A full range of free training available

Responsibilities:

• You will help shape, design and deliver Adult Social Care's new early help offer and model within the newly formed Adults Early Support Team.
• The aim of the team is to provide impactful strengths-based working at the front door to prevent, reduce or delay needs from escalating to maximise independence and enable Manchester residents to achieve their best outcomes at the earliest opportunity.
• This opportunity gives you experience of being at the forefront of social work, as the service is the first point of contact in Adult Social Care, for adults who are experiencing a range of situations.
• You will be the social worker with the mental health specialism within the team delivering the triaging function.
• Using your professional knowledge and expertise as a professional resource to deliver strength-based assessments and support for residents alongside being a professional resource for other ASC & Health colleagues.
• Your aim is to resolve these by providing short-term interventions and completing assessment to achieve person-centred outcomes. These outcomes can range from signposting and providing information and advice right through to the provision of early help, targeted support services, crisis intervention and adult safeguarding responses when needed.
• You will be an experienced mental health social worker with two years of post-qualifying experience with substantial knowledge of ASC and specialist knowledge about mental health difficulties gained by working with residents.
• You will be able to ensure that all work is carried out in line with the appropriate legislation, (Care Act 2014, Mental Health Act 1983, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Human Rights Act 1998) guidelines, policies and procedures.
• This will require you to work collaboratively with colleagues.
• You will use your knowledge of early help and secondary care offers to provide information and signpost people to the most appropriate services.
• You will be working in a fast-paced environment, be resilient to engage in evolving ways of working and deliver innovative and creative solutions.
• You will identify risk and explore risk management and mitigation in high risk and complex situations
• A key element of the role is developing effective working partnerships with a wide range of internal and external agencies to support delivery of the new front door model and an innovative and responsive early help offer. This will include supporting on the delivery of prototypes to test and embed new operational ways of working.

Requirements:

• Social Work Degree
• Social Work England registered
• Enhanced DBS

Experience:

• Adults

If you have any further questions, or wish to apply for this role then please contact Hannah on (phone number removed) otherwise Apply Below and I will be in touch soon.

Are you thinking about a change in your career but not sure about this role? Whether you are an existing candidate, new to the locum market and are exploring some options or looking for a new permanent role, we have several exciting opportunities with competitive pay & flexibility. If you wish to discuss this further please call (phone number removed) and we would be happy to have a confidential discussion.

Randstad Care acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Randstad Care is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merits alone.

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