Social Worker - Adults
Main Duties:
- Make ongoing assessments of allocated cases to reflect individual circumstances including assessment of risk, enabling independence and need to ensure that service users are protected from significant harm.
- Responsible for a caseload of varying complexity, commensurate with ability and qualifications, receiving and responding to referrals from various sources.
- Community Care, integrated care program approach and risk assessment to work to protect the safety and protection of individuals.
- Statutory reviews and comply with appropriate legislation, policy and procedures.
- Assess client needs in consultation with them and with other professionals and agree levels of support.
- The need to engage with people refusing a service who are at risk to self or others.
- The need for sensitive negotiation when assessing service users and careers where there is conflict or lack of insight.
- Effectively manage people presenting in crisis needing a quick resolution, using relevant legislation and resources