The Service
Adults Care and Support is a business area within the Directorate of Adult Social Care. The primary purpose of ASC is to deliver its statutory duties as directed by legislation, including the Care Act 2014, Mental Health Act 1983, and Mental Capacity Act 2005. Through delivery of these duties' residents who have or are likely to develop Care and Support needs will be supported to 'live the lives, they want to lead'.
The role
There are exciting changes within substance misuse recovery services. We are expanding our provision to improve capacity and quality which this post will be part of and co-located with new mental health practitioner posts, in a multi-disciplinary team based within the Recovery Hub in Southsea. This team will directly support those individuals or families accessing the Recovery Hub with multiple needs, as well as working alongside the Recovery Workers, providing advice and guidance.
One of two qualified Social Workers you will assess the needs of adults with problematic substance use and their Carers, to then identify creative ways to meet their assessed outcomes under the Care Act 2014. The role includes outcome led interventions, using a strength-based approach to support people to live their lives. You will be able to work collaboratively with others, maintaining a strength based and aspirational approach to achieve the outcomes the person wants. You will be assessing clients need and agreeing a person-centred support plan, completing reviews of assessments and support plans as required. You will be supporting people with all their health and social care needs, supporting both crisis management and mental capacity when required. In addition, you will chair, or support other staff to chair meetings. There ill be the opportunity to support unqualified staff and you will act as a key resource for the social care needs of the wider team caseload.
We are looking for a qualified Social Worker with a range of experience who can support us on our improvement journey. You will need to be able operate with a level of autonomy and authority using a wide range of evidence-based social work interventions and tools. You will consistently demonstrate a high level of competence and confidence in the full range of social work tasks, particularly in relation to Adult Safeguarding, adults with complex care and support needs, mental capacity assessments, DoLS and partnership working.
You will work with adults in need of care & support and their carer's, identifying the needs the service user prioritises and creating an assessment of their needs and a support plan based on this.
In return we can offer you a supportive team, where you are encouraged to develop learning and development opportunities and involvement in the social work groups that support practice development.
