Social Worker

About us at Hounslow

We’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.

We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.

About our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.

We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.

As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.

Our Benefits

If you join us, you’ll have access to a range of employee benefits. Read more about these here.

About The Role

This is a hybrid role that works across health and social care settings as part of a rapid response MDT Team to prevent Hospital admissions. This is a fantastic opportunity for a Social Worker who enjoys working autonomously across different systems to support residents urgently on a daily basis. Your intervention will be short-term to facilitate short term packages of care prior to assessing longer term needs.

The main duties in this role would include:

1. To work autonomously as a social worker, as well as a full member of the multidisciplinary team, providing a social work service to patients and their families within the community. Within the team, complete Care Act assessments for those in receipt of rapid response care/Hospital at Home to identify a safe, ongoing support plan.
2. Complete Mental Capacity Assessments where appropriate and undertake Safeguarding enquiries to ensure residents receive support under Section 42 of the Care Act.
3. To manage referrals from colleagues in the team within an agreed timeframe and to update the MDT regarding client work at required intervals.
4. To consider diversity within the assessment process.
5. To identify and assess risks to vulnerable residents and families and to work with other agencies and professionals to manage risk appropriately.
6. To advise and assist residents and families in accessing appropriate community care services in conjunction with statutory and voluntary organisations.
7. To provide information and advocacy about benefits and financial assistance, referring on for specialist advice as necessary.
8. To coordinate and attend meetings, reviews and training courses as required.
9. To use available information technology systems to prepare written reports, maintain case records in accordance with GDPR, local policy and professional standards.
10. To attend virtual board roads and to track residents through the Hospital at Home process.
11. To provide support and advice to colleagues within the team in order to better manage the residents’ social care needs.
12. To work proactively to ensure integrations of services.
13. To engage with professional supervision with regard to caseload and professional development.
14. To work at all times within the appropriate legal framework, local policies and professional standards.

About The Team You’ll Be Working In

The Hospital Social Work Team is a fast-paced person-centred service that places the needs of our residents first. We have a strong team work ethic. We fundamentally believe that all our residents are entitled to the best level of care and support and work tirelessly with our colleagues in the NHS to support safe discharges. We offer great opportunities for career development and if you are successful you will be supported to identify your areas of strength and how we can assist you in career progression.

Within your role as a rapid response social worker you will be community based and part of the MDT with the rapid response team.

About You

You will have contributed to a positive team culture and be a strong team member, with an emphasis on achieving collective goals and supporting colleagues on a daily basis.

You will bring experience of delivering positive outcomes for residents that you have worked with and demonstrate examples of where you have upheld human rights.

You will have sound and detailed knowledge of legislation such as the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005.

You will require a good knowledge of Ordinary Residence statutory guidance and Safeguarding Adults procedures to ensure that you meet the needs of the residents we work with on a daily basis.

You’ll have to demonstrate your ability to work to tight timescales in a fast-paced environment and be able to flexibly manage your day-to-day priorities.

Good IT skills will be required.

Assertive communication skills will be required as you will need to undertake the role of a Social Worker in an MDT setting which can be challenging due to the differing priorities of organisations working with residents.

Qualifications:

Social Work qualification required and/or awaiting certificate from Social Work England.

Essential for The Role:

Enhanced DBS

Read more about the work you’ll be doing in the Role Profile.

When Interviews Will Be Held And Who To Contact

The key information you need about the role should be in the role profile, but if you have any further questions about the role, please contact:

Email: Richard.Brown@Hounslow.gov.uk

Telephone: 0208 583 6209

To apply please visit our website via the button below.

Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 5th May 2025.

Closing date: 28^th April 2025