Social Worker-Disabilities- Adults

Location Barnet
Salary £30.00 - £32.50 per hour
Discipline

• To provide a high standard of social work to users arising out of the Council’s duties and powers under legislation and in accordance with divisional and area policy, procedures, guidelines and the Code of Practice for Social Care Workers.
• To facilitate a smooth transition for young people with a disability and/or learning disability and autism from into adults services.
• Operating within a multidisciplinary environment to provide appropriate, professional Social Work support for vulnerable young people, adults with physical and sensory impairment, learning disability, and autism and carers with a focus on meeting the social care outcomes as articulated in the Department of Health’s Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework.
• Within the context of an enablement approach1 and operating within an integrated service, to provide individualised, outcomes-led, personalised support, based on structured, individual assessments that inform the setting up and commissioning of appropriate enablement packages of support.
• Undertake the more complex assessments, packages of care and long term support for people who are eligible for services that require a professional/ specialist input.