Social Work Officer
Haringey
£23/hr
Start date: ASAP
Full time: 36/hrs a week
Hatched Recruitment is working closely with the local authorities and we are looking for a Social Work Officer in the Haringey area.
Job Purpose:
- Working within strengths-based model of practice and holding a non-complex caseload to support residents to improve their independence and wellbeing by working closely with partners and maximizing the use and benefit of community resources.
- Undertake strengths-based assessments, reviews and support planning that enable residents to maximize their independence, improve quality of life and build their resilience.
- Provide practical support to residents and carers, that helps support them such as accessing living aids: accessing the welfare benefit system in order to provide advice and information to service users.
- Assist in arranging short term care and in providing clients and carers with respite to reduce carer breakdown
- Work with adult clients, relatives, carers and communities to help them make informed decisions, enabling them to clarify and express their needs and contribute to support planning.
- Liaise with colleagues across the haringey health and social care partnership in order to gather information relevant to assessment and support planning activities.
- Maintain and update reliable, timely and accurate case notes, systems and other records, write reports as required; support social worker to collect information and present to legal.
- Undertake reviews of care packages
- Contribute to effective Multi Disciplinary Team working by inputting through meetings and working with others to achieve best outcomes for those accessing services
- Attend safeguarding strategy meetings were required.
- Complete Continuing Health Care checklists and identify those that require full assessments