Social Worker - Community Teams April22

Social Worker - Adults Community Teams

Rate of Pay: up to ?28 per hour

Hours: 37 hours per week

Location: Oldbury Council House/Working from home

Start Date: ASAP

Contract type: 12 weeks - temporary

Job Description and Personnel Specification are attached, which also provides more information above the role.

Brief description:

Are you committed and passionate about improving and making a difference to people's lives? Sandwell is a family friendly place to live and work and although Sandwell Council has faced unprecedented challenges over recent times we have responded with our passion and commitment to continue to serve and support our local communities.

We are therefore looking for qualified agency social workers, who are enthusiastic, motivated, flexible and hardworking, with a minimum of 2 years' experience, good social work skills, and attributes to join our dynamic and friendly social work teams. We are looking for workers who will make a difference to the lives of our vulnerable customers in Sandwell.

You will need to be confident, while working with vulnerable adults with mental health issues, learning disability, physical disability, older people and their carers. You must also hold a Social Work Degree or equivalent qualification and be registered with Social Work England.

You will be required to undertaking safeguarding investigations, mental capacity assessments, best interest decisions, carry out outcome focused assessments, with support planning, to meet individual's care and support needs. You will be required to work with a diverse group of individuals and with our partner agencies to deliver the best outcomes for our customers.

You will need to have a high professional standard and sound knowledge and experience of current legislation including the Care Act 2014, Continuing Health Care, Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act 2005, and Community DoLS.

Adult Social Care, Community Social Work Teams have taken the opportunity to work in different ways, improving what we do and how we do it. We are continually evolving and developing our service provision to provide the best outcomes for Sandwell residents/customers. Sandwell Council is a desirable employer and are proud to offer great benefits for agency social workers. Adult Social Care actively encourage all workers Continual Professional Development (CPD) and career development (including agency workers), as we have an excellent learning and development team/programme that offers a range of different training opportunities to encourage staff's development.

Our offer to you

Sandwell Council are proud to offer Agency Social Workers the following benefits;

• oLearning & Development to continually improve your practice, development and the services
• oTo be valued and respected in your role as a professional practitioner
• oEmployee Induction
• oRegular Planned Supervision and Apprais...

Additional information:

The Council will be using the In-tend e-Tendering System for this Procurement opportunity, please visit https://in-tendhost.co.uk/sandwellmbc to access the Sandwell MBC In-tend Supplier Portal.

From here you will be able to register your company, express an interest in the opportunity, and gain immediate access to the related documents.

To submit your documents, you will be required to opt in.

For a Step by Step user guide to the Sandwell MBC In-tend Supplier Portal please click on the `Guidance for Suppliers` section of the website. All procurement responses must be carried out via the Sandwell MBC In-tend Supplier Portal.

If you require further assistance in respect of the system, please contact the In-tend support team on 0844 272 8810.

Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No