Job summary

The Adult Social Care workforce aims to improve outcomes for adults who live in Salford by empowering individuals, adopting a strength's-based approach across the service, promoting independence, and working in partnership with our residents so their experiences, opportunities and lives are as good as they can be. This will be achieved through developing a skilled and motivated workforce by investing in their continued professional development and ensuring their practice is current and of a high standard. Successful candidates will receive a full induction into the organisation and will be fully supported by the team to settle into the role. The organisation offers excellent training, learning and development opportunities to enhance our workforce's knowledge, skills, and experience.

The ideal candidate will have a passion for social work, enabling effective integrated working, promoting independence through reablement approaches and safeguarding adults in Salford. You will be responsible for carrying out social work duties, requiring the highest levels of skills, knowledge, and professional expertise. You will assist the Team Manager in ensuring the delivery of effective, safe integrated services for adults through the promotion of high standards of practice in assessment and person-centred support planning being creative to meet individual outcomes.

Main duties of the job

You will be a skilled, effective practitioner acting with considerable autonomy. You should have in depth knowledge and skill in one or more fields of practice which may have been developed through a formal post - qualifying training and development activity. You should have or will be expected to undertake Practice Educator training and support student Social Workers. You may have or will be expected to undertake a postgraduate qualification and role in specialised practice e.g., AMHP, BIA. You will need to have capability to integrate professional knowledge, the views of people using services and research/evaluation evidence routinely in their practice. They will need to demonstrate expert and effective practice in complex situations, assessing and managing higher levels of risk while promoting enablement and self-determination. They will need to network and liaise with a wider range of professionals and other colleagues, including at more senior or strategic levels. They will need to manage complex caseloads and offer expert opinion within the organisation and to others.

About us

We are committed to supporting the recruitment and retention of our Social Work staff. It is recognised by the Trust that many experienced Social Work staff are currently likely to be employed by local government organisations, and to ensure there is clarity over terms and conditions of employment we offer National Joint Council Pay Scales to Social Workers we appoint, rather than NHS pay-scales. We have adopted the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment which is used for recognising continuous service regarding annual leave, sickness, and maternity for moves within Greater Manchester. In addition, we also recognise previous, continuous, national local government service regarding annual leave.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk

Person Specification

Registration

Essential

• You must hold a current registration with SW England

Essential qualifications

Essential

• Possession of a recognised Social Work qualification; Degree, CQSW, CSS, Dip SW or equivalent.

Knowledge, skills & experience

Essential

• You must clearly evidence an understanding of the principles and values underlying the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005 and other relevant legislation
• You must clearly evidence your ability to develop effective working relationships with service users and their carers' and show evidence of good assessment practice
• Ability to ensure the quality and effectiveness of practice
• Demonstrate a thorough understanding of personalisation and a person-centred approach.
• Ability to demonstrate assertiveness and manage confrontations constructively and effectively
• You must clearly evidence that you have a clear understanding of the social work role in a multi-disciplinary setting
• Demonstrate the ability to develop effective working relationships with other professionals and colleagues
• Possess skills of negotiation, mediation and de-escalation - seeking constructive approaches to problem solving
• Experience of working with adults/older people.
• Experience of building productive and collaborative working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

Desirable

• You have additional qualifications; Best Interest Assessors; AMHP; Practice Educator; Post Qualifying courses or other professional development qualifications
• You can evidence an innovative approach to the development of new methods of working to support people in the community.
• You can show knowledge of relevant Welfare Rights Legislation

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