Social Worker - Adults - Safegusrding

Location Tower Hamlets
Salary £28.00 - £30.50 per hour
Discipline
Uses a strength based, person centred approach,
developing creative and personalised solutions to assist
people to manage their lives independently for as long as
possible, ensuring agreed outcomes are met. Encourage
the use of direct payments as an option wherever possible
2. Ensure those accessing the service, including families and
carers, are at the centre of decision making over their
support arrangements and that opportunities and capacity
for choice and control are optimised and reflected in their
assessments and reviews.
3. Actively engage with, assist and provide advice to carers,
conducting carers assessments when appropriate, to enable
them to sustain their caring role
4. Promotes independence by taking a preventative approach
to interventions, maximising use of appropriate resources
including Reablement, equipment, adaptations, assistive
technology and advice and information. Undertakes trusted
assessment/provision functions to promote independence
and, where appropriate, offer access to standard
equipment, which may involve the issuing of an equipment
prescription (for redemption via a retail outlet) and
delivery/fitting.
5. To make ongoing assessments of need of service users
allocated, including assessment of risk. Identify and process
any safeguarding and quality of care issues and refer on to
the appropriate staff/agency to ensure that clients’ welfare is
protected and that the quality and standard of support
provided is optimised.