States of Guernsey
Job Summary
The States of Guernsey are looking for an Adult Social Worker to join the team at Adult Community Services.
The main purpose of the post will be to provide a high quality research based casework service to service users. The post holder will be based in the Integrated Adult Community Care Team. They will provide consultation, support, specialist advice and joint working within the integrated services to deliver person centred care and support. They will be based within an identified team, acting in an advisory capacity to members of the multidisciplinary team on social care issues relating to adults, educating or acting as a mentor as appropriate. They will also provide training, consultation and supervision as delegated by the Senior Practitioner for less experienced social workers, support workers and student social workers.
Main duties of the job
To provide a social work service to adults living in the Bailiwick of Guernsey. To carry out assessments using the agreed standardised format. To participate in co-ordinating services for people wishing to remain within their own homes. To offer support to people who may be moving into care.
To work in a flexible way, adapting the service to meet the changing needs of service users from a wide range of social and cultural backgrounds.
To work in an identified social work team within the Integrated Adult Community Care Service.
To form relationships with service users to formulate an accurate assessment of complex psychosocial needs of service users, their families and service providers and assess for services in line with local policy.
To contribute towards a holistic assessment within the multi-professional specialist team, recognising that diversity, values and human rights may influence the decisions of people who use the service.
To provide complex psychosocial support for service users with terminal illness/life threatening illnesses and their families, advocating for service users, carers, and families around complex emotional & practical needs.
To provide specialist social work advice within the Adult Community Health & Social Care Team.
About us
The Island of Guernsey is in the English Channel in the Bay of St Malo, 50km off the north-west coast of France and 120km from the English coast.
Guernsey has a population of around 63,000 and in Alderney just under 2,000. Working in a relatively small Health and Social Care Service like ours means you can effectively work with colleagues across the services, health and social care professionals can collaborate not only with each other but also other agencies, the third sector and the community.
We offer an attractive relocation policy and competitive salaries with great career opportunities, modern facilities, excellent training, revalidation and registration support and a healthy work-life balance.
As a health or social care professional who chooses to join our team, you can look forward to working in an environment that gives you the time to care that you hoped for when choosing this career.
To apply for this job please visit www.jobs.nhs.uk.