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Senior Social Work Practitioner - Adults Safeguarding (West Sussex)

Frontier Consulting
Posted 19 days ago, valid for 18 days
Location

Horsham, West Sussex RH13 0NE, England

Salary

£24,000 - £28,800 per annum

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Contract type

Full Time

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  • The position is for a Senior Social Work Practitioner in the Safeguarding Adults Hub located in Horsham, offering a salary between £45,441 and £48,474.
  • This is a full-time, permanent role that requires experience in social work, particularly in safeguarding adults.
  • The successful candidate will be responsible for triaging safeguarding referrals, initiating inquiries, and developing initial safeguarding plans.
  • Key skills needed include the ability to assess complex situations, manage competing risks, and communicate effectively in a multi-disciplinary environment.
  • The role also involves mentoring and leading a diverse team while promoting professional curiosity and critical reflection.

Salary: £45,441 to £48,474

Working Pattern: Full Time

Contract Length: Permanent

Location: Horsham

The Safeguarding Adults Hub providers the single point of access for all Safeguarding Adults. The referrals and queries that the Safeguarding Hub responds to cover the full spectrum of life across West Sussex. We are looking for a Senior Social Work Practitioner who can bring new skills, knowledge and background to an already diverse team. Could this be you?

You will work as part of a strong and dynamic social work service. In this role you will work with colleagues from all our statutory partners, providers and members of the public when reviewing and making vital decisions in relation to Safeguarding Adults.

An ability to rapidly risk assess situations and engage with people who may be in crisis is key to the role. You will utilise these skills to develop and implement effective plans of support, aimed at improving wellbeing and delivering better outcomes for people as well as contributing to and developing skills in safeguarding. The hub will triage all safeguarding referrals submitted to the Local Authority, initiate all safeguarding enquiries and develop initial safeguarding plans.

Key Skills include:

1. Ability to work proactively as a member of the team to make an accurate assessment of needs and negotiate and implement effective plans and outcomes, whilst prioritising workload and meeting deadlines.

2.Expertise of managing situations with complex and competing risks, utilising a risk enablement approach, and using evidence-based practice. Solution focussed with the ability to analyse complex situations and provide forward thinking strategies and solutions that consider a variety of possible strength-based solutions, balancing risks, resources and desired outcomes.

3.Highly developed communication skills to influence in a multi-disciplinary setting and communicate clearly and effectively to explain complicated information to a wide range of people and negotiate and persuade others to adopt a particular course of action that they may not otherwise wish to take.

4.Able to model and use social work skills in practice, supervision, mentoring and leadership to develop and maintain an environment in which professionally curiosity, critical reflection and analysis is valued, staff are supported their find own solutions and practice capability is developed.

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.