Job Title: Social Worker-Complex Needs
Post requires a license: Yes
Post requires 5 years residency: No
Hourly rate:
Contract Type: Permanent
Full time/Part Time: Full Time
Term Time only post: No
Advert Closing Date:31/05/2024
By joining the Government of Jersey and wider Jersey Public Services, you'll be proud of what you can achieve – both for yourself and the people of Jersey. You'll enjoy a broader scope that allows you to express yourself, in a smaller setting that means you see the positive results of your impact every day. You'll have a diversity of opportunities that stretch and challenge you, with all the personal and professional support you need. Most of all, in our open, welcoming environment, your voice matters, enabling you to build a rewarding career.
Job Overview
As an important part of the Complex Needs team, a social worker would provide comprehensive social work assessments to identify the right support needed to support and promote the wellbeing of children and young people with complex needs as well as their family and carers too.
The Complex Needs social worker will deliver day-to-day operations of social work services and access and facilitate resources to offer support and meet the identified needs, whilst working alongside other departments to ensure proper service is provided.
For an informal discussion please contact Sabrina Charpentier at s.charpentier@health.gov.je
Job Purpose
Provide a comprehensive social work assessment and protection service to children, young people, their families and carers, who are in need of care and protection. This will include Children in Need, Children Looked After, care leavers and those in need of safeguarding. To
deliver the day to day operation of social work services, and accessing and facilitating resources to manage risk and meet identified needs.
Knowledge
ESSENTIAL:
Specialist knowledge in social work underpinned by theory and relevant practical experience.
An understanding of children’s & adult Safeguarding issues. Good understanding of the management of risk and supporting vulnerable children/young people, families and carers in the community.
Understands how to assess and manage risk when making complex decisions that may be disputed in court.
Practical knowledge of assessing and arranging delivery of social care plans for caseload children/young people, their families and carers.
Understanding of therapeutic services, their arrangement and provision.
Practical understanding of legislation relating to their specialist area of social work, the general workings of civil courts and the conducting of police investigations into related criminal activity.
Understands how to maintain records according to confidentiality and data protection protocols.
Technical Work Based Skills
ESSENTIAL:
Able to demonstrate a range of information technology skills i.e. an ability to effectively use IT equipment and role critical software.
Ability to attain Enhanced DBS clearance.
DESIRABLE:
Safeguarding certificated.
General skills / attributes
ESSENTIAL:
Ability to work autonomously, with the capacity for independent responsible, professional decision making, often whilst under considerable pressure.
Organisational and administrative skills.
Ability to take on board complex facts or situations requiring analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range options in order to arrive at a complex judgement and to convey this in formally written reports, which may be produced at the requests of the Courts for a range of purposes.
Able to communicate calmly and clearly using a variety of media on sensitive and complex issues, including legislation, often in emotive situations.
Able to facilitate the involvement of a range of stakeholders (public and private sector) to deal effectively with complex issues relating to vulnerable children/young people, their families and carers.
Able to follow policy and understand the implications and ramifications for areas outside of their own area of responsibility.
Highly resilient – good coping mechanisms for dealing with challenging, stressful and emotional situations involving vulnerable children/young people their families and carers.
Experience
ESSENTIAL:
Experience of providing a social care service for children/young people, their families, carers and adults, which may be placements undertaken as part of the social work training.
Developing and implementing care packages.
Co-Ordinating support services and advising carers and families.
Negotiating services for vulnerable children, young people with complex needs, children looked after care leavers, those children/young people and families requiring post adoption services, individuals affected by domestic violence, substance misuse mental health and adverse childhood experiences.
DESIRABLE:
Discharging statutory social care functions on behalf of an organisation.
Personal Attributes
ESSENTIAL:
A professional qualification in Social Work (e.g. Degree, Diploma or equivalent in Social Work).
Registered with the appropriate UK professional governing body e.g Social Work England and locally, must also register under the Health Care (Registration) (Jersey) Law 1995.
Across the Government of Jersey and public service, the scope of our work means our people enjoy a wider range of opportunities – to work with recognised experts across teams, learn new skills and develop their careers. We actively look to recruit people from different backgrounds, with diverse perspectives. This creates a richer, more varied environment, where you’re exposed to new ideas, new ways of thinking and new opportunities, so you can develop an exciting and rewarding career.
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