Social Work Assistants

2 weeks ago

Slough, United Kingdom Slough Borough Council Full time

**Directorate: People (Adults)**:

- **Pay Level: Level 5**:

- **Working Hours: 37 per week**:

- **Location: Observatory House/Hawker House and Wexham Park Hospital**:

- **DBS requirement: Enhanced**:
**What you’ll be doing**:
The primary responsibility of a Social Work Assistant is to work with our Slough residents in a strength-based and community-focused way. Through the process of assessment you will be asked to listen and understand what is important to the individual, explore their goals and, in the first instance, to assist them to identify what support they have already available to them in the community and through the use of Assistive Technology to achieve their desired outcomes.

You will be linking individuals or families with social and community services such as health, Income Boost and Community Connectors. You will also arrange meetings with relevant agencies and act as an advocate to help residents throughout their journey.

**You will need to have**:

- Ability to manage autonomously a caseload of service users with various disadvantages, assessing and treating them and maintaining their electronic records.
- To work collaboratively with health and integrated teams and acute colleagues, including Local Access Point and Discharge to assess teams.
- To work with other members of the MDT to ensure effective assessment, safety, treatment, management of care pathways and transfers of care / discharges.
- Excellent time management skills. Including the ability to work to deadlines
- Demonstrate positive attitudes and behaviours, taking a strength based approach to assessments
- Experience of working with people of diverse cultural and religious communities

**Our Council**:
Our vision is to make a difference to our communities and our environment and we would love you to join us in our mission All of our employees, whatever their job, contribute greatly to delivering services to local people - either directly, or by supporting colleagues. We celebrate diversity and are continuously striving for our residents to enjoy fulfilling prosperous and healthy lives.

**What we offer**:
We offer a supportive place to grow and develop your career with a real opportunity for your input to be valued and heard. Ambition and innovation will be required now more than ever and you will join a friendly and collaborative environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

Alongside a competitive salary, we provide:

- 26 days annual leave (not including Bank holidays), rising to 30 days between 2 - 5 years’ service and 33 days after 5 years’ service.
- The Local Government Pension Scheme

We offer a wider range of great benefits including:

- Flexible and hybrid working options to promote work-life balance
- Our commitment to equality and diversity through a range of employee networks
- Wellbeing initiatives
- Tax - free childcare and childcare services
- Season loan ticket - to help with the cost of your rail / bus journey to & from work.

**Interested?

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