Social Worker – Compound Service

Responsibilities

• Undertake a full range of social work tasks independently
• Provide specialist assessments under the Care Act and Mental Capacity Act to create strength-based support plans
• Develop safety planning and ongoing support to adults facing homelessness or domestic abuse
• Work closely with housing, health, police and voluntary sector partners
• Lead on safeguarding concerns, ensuring statutory duties are met
• Work flexibly across community settings, including outreach, sourcing emergency accommodation and working in partnership with agencies

• Engage effectively using creativity, compassion and authority to overcome resistance, build relationships, and communicate while maintaining professional boundaries with children, families and carers in complex, variable and emotionally challenging situations.
• Able to manage workload independently, applying critical reflection and analysis to maintain, develop and apply a range of effective judgements and assessments, utilising a wide range of evidence and hypotheses to inform decision making, assessment and timely intervention to progress complex cases and safeguarding interventions
• Apply the principles of social justice, social inclusion and equality decision making in all casework, challenging issues of discrimination and oppression and demonstrating the confident application of ethical reasoning to professional practice.