
Social Worker - Prevention Team
- Southend-on-Sea, Essex
- £43,693 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Act as a catalyst for change, ensuring that solutions and outcomes are based on recognised best practice and innovation.
- Be part of a team that embraces the process of change, participating in effective team working.
- Be an exemplar for high quality complex social work practice, leading through example in your communication style, knowledge, values and person-centred approach.
- Embrace a culture of active engagement and co-production across the team, community and system wide.
- Engage with people on all levels when considering how services are delivered with an onus on co-production.
- Participate in community engagement and cohesion to effectively reduce adults and families who are experiencing isolation, loneliness, marginalisation and disconnection.
- Maintain effective relationships with stakeholders who are crucial to creating a better Southend, including General Practitioners (GPs), other primary care professionals, hospital staff and community leaders/grounds relevant to the locality.
- Apply a strengths/asset-based approach to practice, both in terms of individual assessments, care plans and reviews and the culture within the team.
- Promote social work values, ethics and commit to ensuring that individuals are at the centre of practice.
- Develop your strengths, abilities and aspirations to ensure you feel valued, inspired and able to take on the complexities of practice.
- Embrace positive risk assessment and decision making to reduce boundaries around risk averse practice.
- Communicate effectively including accurate records, written reports, appropriately reporting concerns to manager and external stakeholders when required.
- Be willing to develop your strengths and abilities to ensure you feel inspired and able to take on the complexities of social work practice.
- Undertake leadership training as required to maximise the skill-set required to embrace change and drive Southend Borough Council towards a learning organisation.
- A Social Work Qualification or equivalent.
- Understanding of relevant legislation.
- Relevant Social Work experience.
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