Senior Social Worker Job Description (Page 4 of 4) in pdf

Job Profile: Social Worker (Current Grade S9 – P1)

and staff

and outside of the team and contribute to the successful achievement of team

supervision

goals, sharing information and learning whilst supporting others.

The ability to manage effective reflective supervision with less experienced Social

work staff and the ability to supervise staff who are not professionally qualified.

Working with

Ability to engage with individuals, families, groups and communities, working

others

alongside people to assess and intervene. Enable effective relationships and use

appropriate skills. Use professional judgement, employing a range of interventions:

promoting independence, providing support and protection, taking preventative

action and ensuring safety whilst balancing rights and risks. Understand and take

account of differentials in power, and use authority appropriately. Evaluate their

own practice and the outcomes for those they work with.

Communicate with compassion and authority in challenging situations and with

resistant individuals.

Using IT

Competent in the use of basic IT skills .

A willingness to learn how to use the SCC adult social care data base and other

software programmes where required.

Numeracy and

Competent use of basic numeracy skills. The ability to understand and explain basic

value for

cost information and the ability to contribute to monitoring discussions regarding

money

the use of budgets and resources.

Relevant

experience

Casework

Be able to effectively engage with people in complex situations both short-term

and building relationships over time. Be able to gather information over time so as

to inform judgement for interventions in more complex situations and in response

to challenge.

Be in the process of developing an increasing range of intervention methods and

be able to evaluate their effectiveness in practice and be able to make timely

decisions when positive change is not happening.

Be able to demonstrate and promote appropriate information sharing and

routinely explain professional reasoning, judgements and decisions.

Be able to chair a range of meetings and offer expert support at case meetings.

Be able to offer expert opinion in the team, other professionals and organisations.

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