Adults Social Worker - Learning Disabilities

Role: Adults Social Worker - Learning Disabilities team
Location: Yeovil, Somerset
Rate: £38 an hr

Eden Brown are recruiting on behalf of Somerset Council who are looking for an experienced Adults social worker to join their Learning Disabilities team on a locum basis.

This is a full time, hybrid, locum position to start as soon as possible. £38 an hour.

Duties and responsibilities include:

- Make ongoing assessments of allocated cases to reflect individual circumstances including assessment of risk, enabling independence and need to ensure that service users are protected from significant harm.
- Responsible for a caseload of varying complexity, commensurate with ability and qualifications, receiving and responding to referrals from various sources.
- Community Care, integrated care programme approach and risk assessment to work to protect the safety and protection of individuals.
- Statutory reviews and comply with appropriate legislation, policy and procedures.
- Assess client needs in consultation with them and with other professionals and agree levels of support.
- The need to engage with people refusing a service who are at risk to self or others.
- The need for sensitive negotiation when assessing service users and carers where there is conflict or lack of insight.
- Effectively manage people presenting in crisis needing a quick resolution, using relevant legislation and resources.

To apply for this role you must:
- Be SWE registered.
- Have relevant post qualified experience, ideally within Learning Disabilities.
- Have a DBS on the update service or be willing to apply for a new one.

If thi role could be of interest to you, the manager would like the successful worker to start ASAP, ideally from week commencing 21st April so apply now to avoid disappointment.

Eden Brown Synergy is an equal opportunities employer.

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