Adults Safeguarding Social Worker

A Local Authority in Berkshire are seeking an experienced Adults Safeguarding Social Worker to join their EDT Service dealing with Adults and Housing enquiries.

This is an Out of Hours role covering nights and weekends with a fixed shift pattern. Weeknight shifts are home-based and weekend shifts will be based in the office. This role predominately involves telephone assessments. There is rarely a need to go out into the community.

Adults Safeguarding experience is essential.

What's on Offer for the Locum Adults Social Worker?

• Pay rate of £40 per hour
• 4 month contract
• Mainly home-based role
• High level of support and supervision from stable management team

Roles and Responsibilities of the Locum Adults Social Worker:

• To be part of the team who provide crisis social work intervention in partnership with partner safeguarding agencies 365 days a year
• To provide an emergency service for assessment and action where vulnerable adults are referred as being indeed of care, at immediate risk or in need of housing. This will include responsibility for dealing with situations where the service user's needs are particularly complex, in accordance with the strength- based model of assessment and using a person-centred approach, you will devise and implement safety plans and support plans for people which take account of their views/ wishes in the implementation of those support plans to manage the risk until normal working hours. This will include appropriate escalation where required to the on-call managers
• Work autonomously, assessing and prioritising the social care requirements of all cases that present out of hours, ensuring interim/long term protection/risk management plans are in place in accordance with the principles and practice of Making Safeguarding Personal

• To assess eligibility and to take action on cases of homelessness arising out of hours as per local authority duties stipulated in the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017

Requirements of the Locum Social Worker:

• Social Work Qualification and a minimum of 2 years post qualifying experience
• Social Work England registration and clear enhanced DBS
• UK driving license and access to a car

Pay rate: £40 per hour

Location: Berkshire

If you are interested in this vacancy and wish to apply, please follow the application instructions stated on the website or contact Charles Hunter Associates directly and speak to Cassie Ferguson.

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