Senior Social Care Practitioner

Job overview

Are you an experienced, qualified Social Worker seeking the next step?

We are currently seeking a Senior Social Care Practitioner. This is an excellent opportunity to progress your social work career, staying in frontline practice whilst developing management and leadership experience, and leading change within your organisation. You will undertake the role of a senior social worker and be responsible for ensuring statutory social care assessments and interventions are of a high quality. Providing practice learning opportunities of outstanding quality and to ensure social work trainees, newly qualified and qualified social work colleagues develop high quality social work practice.

You will ensure that the social perspective of mental health is front and centre of team's practice and you will promote this model within the integrated team .

Main duties of the job

The focus of this post is to work directly within the North and West AMHT to support, challenge and critically review the care processes which are connected to the funded Social Care packages. The post holder will be a champion for funded social care and all the associated process and practice based issues.

You will be expected to:

• Develop and oversee a programme of robust assessment and review for service users under the care of adult mental health services in receipt of social care services ensuring assessed needs are met in the most appropriate way.
• Maintain an overview of the use of all social care supported accommodation within Oxfordshire
• Maintain an overview of community support provision within Oxfordshire both within specialist mental health provision and within the wider community.
• Be responsible for ensuring the highest standards of social work practice and the efficient and effective use of resources
• Ensure that the needs of service users are met in accordance with the appropriate legal frameworks, providing advice and assistance to other teams where appropriate.
• Provide professional social work supervision to the social work team including ensuring professional development of colleagues. To ensure effective and robust line management.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.

The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.