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About us:

Do you fancy trying a new approach to working with adults within a hospital acute setting? The Hospital Social Care team is currently pioneering a new approach to front line working which focuses on customer strengths and promoting use of universal services. We have three hospital sites across Warwickshire County Council/Coventry. We are dedicated and supportive teams. We aim to respond quickly and efficiently in offering strengths-based assessments & providing support to customers and their carers within fast paced environment.

The teams have a mixture of staff skill sets and roles that include:

Social Workers
Social Care Workers
Admin
Age UK social prescribers

Trusted Assessors

About the role:

Joining our established team, you'll be providing a social work service to a highly professional standard. Managing a caseload and travelling throughout the locality of North and South of Warwickshire depending on business need, you'll be working with older adults and their families and unpaid carers.

Undertaking and recording robust assessments and care and support planning will also be part of your role. 

In addition, you'll be communicating with a wide variety of customers, communities, health partners and agencies as well as working on your own initiative, often in pressurised situations.

Team members are supported by their colleagues and Team Leaders who deliver regular supervision and day to day support. Staff also have access to regular training provided by Warwickshire County Council.

As a hospital team, we are currently working on a hybrid model. The hybrid working model is a location-flexible arrangement, allowing employees to combine onsite and home working in line with our hybrid rota. This will depend on your base location and team.

Key Requirements:

• To be successful in this role it's essential you have a professional Social Work qualification and are registered with the Social Work England.

• Be able to work 5 days over 7 days, to support a streamline service and support timely discharges. The hospital teams currently work one weekend in a Month (4 weekly Rota). Candidates should be prepared to work weekends.

• To work closely with the Multidisciplinary Health & Social Care team
  
  

• To participate fully in the duties of the team, including team meetings and other meetings determined by the Team Leader and/or Operations Manager.

• CLEAN DRIVER’S LICENCE IS ESSENTIAL for the Social work role as you will be expected to complete reviews post discharge especially in care homes.

• You will have a dynamic approach and will embrace our new way of working (Strength based Approach).

• You will be used to making difficult decisions and can work to tight deadlines.  

• You'll also have adult social care experience and good Information Technology (IT) skills.Hospital Social Care Experience will be desirable- practitioners should be willing to learn within a fast-paced environment. In Warwickshire, we use the Mosaic IT System.

For further information about this role please contact Hiring Managers Tippy Khumalo 07717851185 or tippykhumalo@warwickshire.gov.uk

Closing Date:                 11th October 2023 

Interview dates: 23rd/24th October 2023

Please click on the link below for the full Job Description and Person Specification.

Social Worker- Level 3

Additional Information

Warwickshire County Council are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure.

To apply for this vacancy please click on the 'Apply' button.

Our method of application is online, please note, CV’s should not been submitted unless asked to do so. 

If you are unable to apply using the 'Apply' button please contact the Recruitment Centre on hrandpayroll@warwickshire.gov.uk including your contact details and any relevant screenshots.

You will be notified of our shortlisting decision via email, so please check your email on a regular basis after submitting your application.   

As part of being a Disability Confident employer we guarantee to interview anyone with a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post. By ‘minimum criteria’ we mean that you must provide us with evidence in your application form which demonstrates that you generally meet the level of competence required for each competence, as well as meeting any of the qualifications, skills or experience defined as essential in the person specification. 

Should you require application forms in an alternative format / language or any adjustments to be made throughout the application process or upon appointment, please contact hrandpayroll@warwickshire.gov.uk  and we will make every effort to meet your specific requirements.  

Warwickshire County Council (WCC) is committed to equality of opportunity for all employees and is keen to address areas of under representation in its workforce, this is because we really understand the importance of different voices, experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds within our workforce. Therefore, we strongly encourage applications from members of underrepresented groups. WCC has a number of staff network groups which provide peer support and safe spaces for employees who hold these and other identities. See more