The role
About Southwark:
Southwark is a large, ambitious and progressive council with a ‘can do’ attitude and enviable reputation. As a Council, we are successful, passionate and forward-thinking. We are committed to our ‘Fairer Futures for All’ promise which ensures that our residents and businesses are central to everything we do. If you want to make a difference at a local level, apply to Southwark Council today.
The role:
Learning Disability Service (working with adults aged 25+). This services provide a comprehensive and integrated social care pathway young people and adults with learning disabilities and other disabilities using the Adult legislation and care and support.
This includes the undertaking of proportionate assessments, assessing ongoing support, support planning and proactively working with complex issues, family dynamics, legal issues, crisis, providing information and advice, transferring to another team if required and the provision of some ongoing safeguarding work, under direct supervision from a qualified professional.
You will also be asked to complete Carers assessments to ensure that we are supporting the numerous informal carers within the borough. A key part of this role is to develop trust and assist in safeguarding and promoting positive and timely outcomes for service users and there families. Ensuring focused interventions are delivered to safeguard and empower our service users with learning disabilities.
About You:
We are looking for resilient practitioners who can manage competing demands and prioritise work effectively. The role requires applicants who are confident decision makers and who can stay calm under pressure. You will have the ability to undertake strength based social care assessments. You will be able to determining the need of an individual and produce outcome focused support plans.
You will have the ability to establish a rapport and build and maintain a professional, respectful and honest relationship with the service user and their family/carer.
You will have the ability to deliver focused interventions to safeguard vulnerable adults and promote independence, positive outcomes and promote the use of assistive technology.
Learning and development:
Throughout your time at Southwark you will be constantly learning. You will be challenged by your work, encouraged to try new approaches and supported to maximise your potential. We will invest in providing the resources you need to develop professionally, through a combination of informal on-the-job and formal development programmes
Additional salary details
https://www.jobsatsouthwark.co.uk/why-us/
Permanent - Full Time
Recruitment timetable
Advert closing date: 04/01/2023
Shortlisting date: 05/01/2023
Interview / assessment date: 19/01/2023
We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together initiative. We particularly welcome applications from members of the black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.
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