Experienced Social Worker in Home First

Experienced Social Worker Position Within Our Home First Team.

Part time - 30 hours a week

Salary: £36,648 to £43,421 (pro-rata)

Generous Relocation and Retention packages available for eligible candidates.

We offer hybrid and flexible working.

Location:

We are currently looking to recruit a dynamic and experienced social worker to our Home First Team located in East Dorset. The East team are based out of Royal Bournemouth and Poole Hospitals.

Home first is a new partnership approach to provide more community-based care in Dorset and reduce unnecessary hospital stays. We promote a discharge to assess model of working with adults who have been discharged from hospital either to their own home or to an assessment bed, working collaboratively with and alongside our health colleagues and other partners to achieve this.

We work with adults and their families/carers who have more complex needs within hospital settings to support and facilitate discharge.

We are a supportive and nurturing service with strong leadership who are focused and available and have a clear vision to embed quality of practice across the County.

We offer hybrid and flexible working, supporting working from home.

For an informal chat about or to find out more about working within our Home First Team please contact [email protected] and we will get straight back in touch.

What’s In It For You

• We are an organisation with a strong commitment to a strengths-based approach in our relationships with customers and employees alike.
• We offer regular, reflective supervision that supports Continuous Professional Development.
• We are an organisation that is proud of its robust learning and development offer to develop your practice in a culture of trust and respect. This includes mentoring and coaching, various external training including BIA, AMHP, access to RIPFA courses, Community Care Inform and internal training to support development in specific areas of practice.
• We promote and encourage career development.
• We offer access to wellbeing support and other support services.
• You will have access to the Local Government Pension scheme.
• We offer a minimum of 27 days holiday and the option to purchase more, rising to 32 days after 5 years of continuous service.
• We proudly offer hybrid and flexible working options, supporting a harmonious work-life balance.
  
  

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What you can expect to be doing:

You will be undertaking strengths-based assessments, support planning and reviews to support customers to achieve their outcomes and promote their independence.

You will be working as part of a busy team with multi-disciplinary practice being and working collaboratively with our health colleagues and other professional's integral to the role

You will completing Mental Capacity Assessments and Court of Protection.

About You

• You will be a dynamic social worker, passionate about working with learning disabilities with a strong value base and sense of person-centred practice.
• You will be creative and passionate about enabling people to be as independent as possible.
• You will have the ability to work and contribute to a team.
• You will have excellent innovation skills with a flexible approach when needed.
• You will have excellent communication skills, enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, have a flexible approach and be able to work closely with a range of professionals.
• You will need to be confident with the legal basis for practice and be able to demonstrate a good understanding of the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Mental Health Act 2007, Human Rights Act 1998 and Equality Act 2010.
• You will embrace continuous professional development.
• You will embody our behaviours responsibility, respect, recognition, and collaboration. https://intranet.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/about/our-behaviours/
• You must have a degree or equivalent in social work and be registered with Social Work England and be able to fulfil the travel requirements of this position.
  
  

We invite you to demonstrate how you evidence these within your application.