Risk and Independence Specialist Advisor and Reviewing Practitioner

Job summary

Senior Social WorkerRisk and Independence Specialist Advisor and Reviewing Practitioner

We are looking to appoint a highly skilled and experiencedSocialWorkerto join our friendly, supportive and exciting Risk and Independence team in Adult Social care services within Northumberland County Council.This role full time 37 hours per week and is fixed term for a 12 month period.

The successful candidate will be based at County Hall, Morpeth. Salary is Band 10 £48,710 - £52,805. The service is county wide across Northumberland.

This is a great opportunity for an experienced Social Worker looking for the next step in their career.

Main duties of the job

• You will have a good working knowledge of legislative frameworks that underpin Adult social care practice and the ethos of promotion and completion of positive risk assessment. To enable service users to maximise their independence, life skills and achieve positive outcomes.
• The successful candidates will share Northumberland councils vision of a council that works for everyone and incorporates its values.
• The candidates will have excellent report writing and communications skills and be able to communicate confidently and effectively with a wide range of service users,professionalsand providers. The teamcomprisesof highly skilled social workers and hasstrong commissioninglinks. The team members arevery supportiveand inclusive and encourage the sharing of knowledge and skills to discuss case work and to offer safe, robust,appropriateand cost-effective care planning.
• The successful candidates will work county wide offering consultation and delivering and training Adult social care community teams, to carry out project and development work and will complete high quality care act assessments working with teams to share knowledge and skills ensuring that care plans are person centred and meet the clients needs effectively and robustly.
• Case work will cross all Adult Social care services Care and support, mental health, learning disability services, head injury services and transition case work. As well as carrying out of county Care management reviews

About us

Northumberland County Councils (NCC) vision is Land of Great Opportunities, for current and future generations. We believe there is no better place to live and work.For further information about working for NCC, please visit our websitehere.

Why choose us?We have some outstanding benefits and perks to offer you, including:

• 26 days annual leave plus public/bank holidays, rising to 31 days after 5 years of service (pro rata for part-time employees)
• Automatic enrolment into the Local Government Pension Scheme
• Flexi scheme (if applicable) up to 2 days flexible leave available per month (pro rata for part-time employees)

To see all our excellent benefits and perks, please clickhere.