MediLink Consulting are recruiting Band 7 Senior Social Workers to work in Ilford, London safeguarding adults as they pertain to rehabilitation services.
Qualifications:
- Social work Degree
- Up-to-date registration with appropriate professional body.
- Achieved the relevant parts of the post-qualifying competency framework that are required to progress to this level.
Experience:
- Significant post-qualification experience in Social Care, Health related agencies or related private or voluntary organisation, of a magnitude that enables the post holder to have achieved the relevant level of the PQ Competency Framework.
- Experience of casework spanning a range of complexity, including Safeguarding.
- Joint working with partner agencies.
Skills & Abilities:
- Effective interpersonal skills to communicate effectively with service users, colleagues and partner agencies.
- Ability to prioritise and to work effectively on own initiative as well as part of a team.
- Effective written and IT skills for report and assessment writing and communication.
- Supervision, mediation, and negotiation skills
- Able to manage conflict and challenging situations and maintain a high- level of personal resilience
- Ability to contribute to and lead a range service-related project.
- Ability and commitment to support the Directorate’s Equality and Diversity Policy Statement which is an integral part of the Directorate’s service deliver and relationship with the person to respect people as individuals regardless of age, ethnic origin, cultural values, disability, gender, sexual orientation, or religion.
- Ability to travel across a wide geographical area in a timely and flexible manner to ensure the needs of the service are met, including evening and weekend working when required.
Knowledge:
- Evidence based understanding and application of adult safeguarding issues, policies, procedures, and protocols.
- Working knowledge of the relevant legislation and theories underpinning the provision of services to the relevant specialism.
- Good working knowledge of directorate and corporate policies, procedures, and practice
- Good understanding of integrated and joint working with
partner agencies
- Good working knowledge of financial procedures appropriate to the job
- Comprehensive knowledge of the Mental Capacity Act.
- Compliance with information governance, record retention, confidentiality issues and the General Data Protection - Regulations of data protection and confidentiality.
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