Senior Social Worker

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Job Description

Qualified Social Worker - Portsmouth Carers Service

Salary: Higher Grade: Band 10: £40.220 to £44,428 per annum (£32,610 - £36,022 for 30 hours)

37 hours per week, although will consider 30 hours - please state on your application the hours you are applying for.

Portsmouth City Council

At Portsmouth City Council we're all about developing our staff, because we want to build a bigger and better city, but we need the best employees to do so.

With a little over 207,000 residents and 7,000 businesses throughout this city, this unitary authority's main goal is to ensure the best care and development of all those within the city.

From customer service to multi-million-pound projects, our residents are at the heart of everything we do.

The Service

Through Health and Care Portsmouth, a partnership of local organisations, we are working together to change the way we provide health and social care. Our vision is to support people to live healthy, safe and independent lives by developing and offering services that are joined up and provided in the right place, at the right time. This post is based within Portsmouth Carers Service located at Portsmouth Carers Centre.

What is the role

This role involves working with unpaid carers in need of support and the person that they care for, identifying the needs of both and creating an assessment of their needs and a support plan based on this. Working in a creative and personalised way you will complete the work directly of value to the carer and information gained directly from their carer, the person they care for and professionals who know them well.

Other duties will include:

• You identifying the best resource to deal with any identified needs, (where this is not yourself) and, if you need to call on other resources to support you to meet these needs.
• Case work decisions will be informed by evidence.
• Working autonomously and be responsible for managing your caseload and maintaining case records that demonstrate that your practice and actions are Proportionate, Legal, Accountable and Necessary.
• You will need to have experience of working in a multidisciplinary team.
• You will receive supervision and support and be expected to attend regular team meetings including service-wide meetings as a representative of Portsmouth Carers Service.
• You will be required to supervise staff in different roles who undertake Care Act assessments and other statutory duties as well as day-to-day management tasks.
• The safeguarding of adults with care needs is an important and integral area of your work as will be the implementation of the safeguarding policy and procedures.
• You will be fully conversant with statutory legislation and guidance and demonstrate that you implement this in your day-to-day practice.
• You will contribute to service development and project management.
• You will maintain a portfolio of Continual Professional Development in line with Social Work England guidelines.

What you'll need to succeed

You will need a qualification in social work i.e., Dipsw, MSc, CQSW, CSS and be registered with Social Work England as a social worker with substantial experience as a qualified social worker. You will have knowledge and understanding of the needs of unpaid carers and with the ability to be an advocate for the voice of the unpaid carer.

You will have a thorough understanding of the legislation that governs the adult social care role and a comprehensive awareness of practice to safeguarding adults. With a knowledge of Adult Social Care eligibility criteria you will have excellent assessment skills with the ability to advocate for users and carers using a problem solving approach. You will have good negotiation skills and will be a good communicator with the ability to deal with conflict. You will be able to work on your own initiative, organise your workload whilst being able to cope with a case workload efficiently and effectively.

Please read the job profile for the full details of this role.

You will need to demonstrate that you have the Right to Work in the UK. No post will be offered without it.

What you'll get in return

We really appreciate our employees and fully realise they are essential to our success and look to offer an inclusive, supportive working environment where employees can reach their potentials with a healthy work life balance, offering the following rewards:

• Generous annual leave (27 days per year rising to 31, pro rata for part time hours) with the potential to purchase additional leave.
• A fantastic pension which allows you the opportunity to pay in more for that greater return.
• Flexible working hours.
• Access to a wide range of training and development opportunities including apprenticeships.
• Extensive wellbeing support through the Employee Assistance Programme
• Discount on travel, travel loans and the bike loan scheme
• Discounts on a wide range of goods and services - access a range of discounts and offers from thousands of restaurants, shops and more.

Staff rewards: https://careers.portsmouth.gov.uk/working-for-the-council/

Additional Information:

The full job profile is attached here.

How to complete your application, https://careers.portsmouth.gov.uk/how-to-apply/

Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points described in the 'Who is the Person' points on the Job Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had.

Applicants will be shortlisted based on their ability to use good examples that meet the criteria of this role. Please read alongside the 'How to apply' on the main careers site. You may wish to attach an additional letter or document to supplement your application. PLEASE DO NOT JUST SUBMIT A CV.

You will need to demonstrate that you have the Right to Work in the UK. No post will be offered without it.

DBS Disclosure at Enhanced level will be required prior to any offer of employment and this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

Portsmouth City Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We are a disability confident employer - committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible and welcome applications from all areas of society.

We will email applicants from time to time; please ensure you check e-mail folders as sometimes our e-mails may go into spam/junk folders.