Qualified Social Worker | Adults Mental Health Team |London Borough Sutton
Brief Description of job role and department
As a social worker in the London Borough of Sutton your role will be to act as an officer of the Local Authority and execute statutory functions ensuring that individuals are safeguarded and supported to achieve positive outcomes.
You will work in partnership with people, other professionals and agencies and intervene to safeguard individuals, promote social change, maximise independence and provide appropriate information and advice about third sector and universal services which support positive outcomes.
You will have the ability to apply professional curiosity and use social work theories and knowledge to formulate and test hypotheses reaching a professional judgement and decision.
You will produce a good standard of professional documentation relevant to your service area and be able to prioritise your workload and work within defined timescales.
Principles of human rights and social justice are fundamental to the role and you will be required to be able to effectively balance the protection of individual rights against the need to use professional authority and accountability effectively to safeguard vulnerable individuals.
You will uphold the profession and act as a representative of the Local authority in a variety of forums.
Representative accountabilities
Deliver service activities and manage caseloads to ensure intended outcomes for customers and the Council are delivered within agreed service standards.
Identify and implement improvements in own work area in order to deliver continuous service improvement and improved outcomes to customers.
Liaise with customers to review service requirements and resolve problems.
Keep up to date with changes in policy/legislation/contractual requirements in order to ensure service delivery is effective and complies with appropriate regulations.
Please apply to be considered
If you are interested in discussing this position in more detail please call 07824534126 and ask for Anton Mostert or email anton.mostert@caritas-recruitment.com
Caritas Recruitment are a specialist recruitment agency for Qualified Social Workers at all levels. We supply Qualified Social Work staff to over 150 local authorities, UK wide, on a permanent and temporary (locum/contract) basis. If you know of someone who might be interested in this vacancy please ask them to get in touch; we offer a £300 referral bonus scheme for each friend/colleague you refer plus an additional £500 on your fifth referral!
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