Social Work Assistant

**What's involved with this role:
Job Ref: Worcestershire RQ1258247

**DBS disclosure required**

The Adult Neurodiversity Team is an exciting new and developing team, consisting of social workers, social care workers and a housing officer. The team is supported by an Advanced Social work Practitioner and team manager. The team works with adults who have autism, ADHD, Learning difficulties and other associated conditions.

Key Responsibilities:

- Work with vulnerable adults, using a strength-based approach, who have complex or fluctuating needs and require intensive support to reduce and manage those risks.
- Work in partnership and engage other professionals to ensure there is a multi-agency approach which enables the adult and/or their carer to live as independently as possible.
- Meet statutory requirements including best practice in relation to the principles of the Care Act 2014 and the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and the Mental Health Act 1983.
- Fully engage in reflective practice, demonstrating you are an active member of the team.
- Identify and support adults and carers who may be at risk of abuse or neglect using Making Safeguarding Personal and complete section 42 enquiries as directed.
- Participate in a range of meetings with adults and carers’ and exchange information, participate in decision making, with support and review progress.
- Carry out meaningful conversations which determine eligibility under the Care Act (2014).
- Engage with adults and their carers using a strengths-based approach to identify available resources to meet their needs (wherever possible).
- Build to excellent and effective relationships with other agencies and the local community to sign-post when appropriate.

**To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, rather than as a PDF.**

**If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know **and we can send you some additiona**l **information for clarity.**

Other “Essential Requirements” - Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
**Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.**

Qualifications:

- Level 2 qualification (e.g. NVQ2) in health and social care or be able to demonstrate equivalent experience
- Level 2 qualification (e.g. GCSE A to C) in maths and English or demonstrable equivalent

Knowledge:

- Knowledge and understanding of strength-based assessment and support planning principles
- Working knowledge of IT packages such as Microsoft Office
- Detailed knowledge and understanding of community resources and how to access these
- Demonstrable understanding of the Care Act (2014), Mental Capacity Act (2005) and safeguarding

**Experience**:

- Significant experience of working in a health or social care environment, providing advice and support adults with care and support needs with a wide range of needs including learning disabilities, physical disabilities, long term conditions and dementia.
- Significant experience in assessing needs and translating these into person centred outcomes
- Demonstrable experience in developing and reviewing support plans
- Demonstrable experience in maintaining accurate records using computer-based information systems

Skills & Abilities:
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Good numeracy skills
- The ability to liaise effectively and build productive working relationships with other agencies and providers
- The ability to plan and prioritise own workload effectively

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**Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please