Social Worker - Adult Safeguarding

37 hours per week

We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic, motivated, and passionate individual, to join us. This role sits within our Adult Safeguarding team within the Local Authority Adult Social Care department, and you will benefit from a unique and enriching environment within an organisation that values strong leadership, a good work life balance, quality management and reflective supervision.

As a qualified Social Worker, you will hold the relevant qualification, skills, and experience to manage a varied caseload, balancing the needs of the person and the service. To fulfil this duty, you will work alongside individuals, their families and/or advocates and partner agencies to coordinate, gather and assess information relevant to the concerns. This will involve coordinating safeguarding enquiries, undertaking visits, attending safeguarding meetings, formulating assessments, coproduction of safety plans with adults at risk, and where required, complete detailed reports for individuals and relevant organisations such as the Court of Protection. You will hold professional curiosity and be able to demonstrate evidence informed decisions through the work you complete.

Newly Qualified Social workers will also be considered.

You will:

• Have excellent communication, relationship building skills, and fully recognise the importance of ensuring that the voice of those we support is heard, that their wellbeing is promoted, and that they are supported to live happy, healthy lives.
• Share our ambitions, passion, and attitude to enable individuals to be protected and live free from harm and abuse.
• Be a critical thinker who has competence and confidence in your practice.
• Hold professional curiosity and be able to formulate evidence informed decisions and demonstrate this through the work you complete.

This is an exciting opportunity to work in a role that really makes a difference to peoples’ lives in our Island community.