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edinburgh, edinburgh
£36,500 - £49,500 per year
permanent
full-time

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health & social care, practitioner & technician

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Are you looking for a better work life balance and be paid more for doing so?

Are you looking for the perfect opportunity to relocate the beautiful Channel Islands?

If so, we want to hear from you as we are supporting the State of Guernsey in the Channel Islands to recruit social workers to support their Adult Community Services Team on a permanent basis. The successful candidate can expect to achieve up to £49,500.

Guernsey is renowned for its relaxed, high quality standard of living and a favourable work-life balance meaning you'd have access to:

- A safe and stable place to live with low covid rates

- High-powered "city" jobs without the downsides of commuting or inner city living

- First rate education system and quality health care

- Peter Port, one of Europe's most attractive harbour towns

- Breathtaking beaches, stunning cliff coastline and idyllic countryside

- High quality restaurants

- A strong sense of community

- 45 minute flight from London

Benefits of working for Guernsey include:

- A higher salary than available in mainland UK.

- A flat rate 20% income tax regardless of salary.

- No Council tax or VAT

- A relocation payment of £5,000

- Allowance for private rental accommodation

- Removal Fees covered

- Allowance for mortgage repayments on unsold property

- House Purchase Grant of £8,750 to support buying your home in Guernsey

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

To provide a social work service to adults living in the Bailiwick of Guernsey.
To carry out assessments using the agreed standardised format.
To participate in co-ordinating services for people wishing to remain within their own homes.
To offer support to people who may be moving into care.
To work in a flexible way, adapting the service to meet the changing needs of service users from a wide range of social and cultural backgrounds.
To work in an identified social work team within the Integrated Adult Community Care Service.
To form relationships with service users to formulate an accurate assessment of complex psychosocial needs of service users, their families and service providers and assess for services in line with local policy.
To contribute towards a holistic assessment within the multi-professional specialist team, recognising that diversity, values and human rights may influence the decisions of people who use the service.
To provide complex psychosocial support for service users with terminal illness/life threatening illnesses and their families, advocating for service users, carers, and families around complex emotional & practical needs.
To provide specialist social work advice within the Adult Community Health & Social Care Team.

KEY CRITERIA:

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Recognised Social Work qualification E.g. Diploma/Degree in Social Work or CQSW FULL

QUALIFICATIONS: Evidence of post graduate study in relevant area

ESSENTIAL 1. Proven experience of working in integrated adult community services.

To possess a full and valid driving licence.
To be enthusiastic, with good interpersonal skills and experienced in working in multidisciplinary teams, where the contribution of the Social Worker role is promoted.
To be flexible in terms of adaptability to new situations, i.e. working practices / locale / developing legislation / co-ordinating structures.
Proven ability to manage a dynamic, and often complex caseload with experience of undertaking a range of assessments, care planning and completing safeguarding reports, taking the lead in safeguarding investigations.

Don't miss out on this fantastic opportunity to improve your lifestyle! To submit your interest please apply to this job advert with your most recent CV, or alternatively contact Leah Rowley on 0131 240 0887 /

Randstad Care acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Randstad Care is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merits alone.

Did you know that Randstad Care have been awarded a place on the National Clinical Staffing Framework for the NHS? This means we will be able to bring you more opportunities within nursing & midwifery and clinical staffing.

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Are you looking for a better work life balance and be paid more for doing so?

Are you looking for the perfect opportunity to relocate the beautiful Channel Islands?

Guernsey is renowned for its relaxed, high quality standard of living and a favourable work-life balance meaning you'd have access to:

- A safe and stable place to live with low covid rates

- High-powered "city" jobs without the downsides of commuting or inner city living

- First rate education system and quality health care

- Peter Port, one of Europe's most attractive harbour towns

- Breathtaking beaches, stunning cliff coastline and idyllic countryside

- High quality restaurants

- A strong sense of community

- 45 minute flight from London

Benefits of working for Guernsey include:

- A higher salary than available in mainland UK.

- A flat rate 20% income tax regardless of salary.

- No Council tax or VAT

- A relocation payment of £5,000

- Allowance for private rental accommodation

- Removal Fees covered

- Allowance for mortgage repayments on unsold property

- House Purchase Grant of £8,750 to support buying your home in Guernsey

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

To provide a social work service to adults living in the Bailiwick of Guernsey.
To carry out assessments using the agreed standardised format.
To participate in co-ordinating services for people wishing to remain within their own homes.
To offer support to people who may be moving into care.
To work in a flexible way, adapting the service to meet the changing needs of service users from a wide range of social and cultural backgrounds.
To work in an identified social work team within the Integrated Adult Community Care Service.
To form relationships with service users to formulate an accurate assessment of complex psychosocial needs of service users, their families and service providers and assess for services in line with local policy.
To contribute towards a holistic assessment within the multi-professional specialist team, recognising that diversity, values and human rights may influence the decisions of people who use the service.
To provide complex psychosocial support for service users with terminal illness/life threatening illnesses and their families, advocating for service users, carers, and families around complex emotional & practical needs.
To provide specialist social work advice within the Adult Community Health & Social Care Team.

KEY CRITERIA:

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Recognised Social Work qualification E.g. Diploma/Degree in Social Work or CQSW FULL

QUALIFICATIONS: Evidence of post graduate study in relevant area

ESSENTIAL 1. Proven experience of working in integrated adult community services.

To possess a full and valid driving licence.
To be enthusiastic, with good interpersonal skills and experienced in working in multidisciplinary teams, where the contribution of the Social Worker role is promoted.
To be flexible in terms of adaptability to new situations, i.e. working practices / locale / developing legislation / co-ordinating structures.
Proven ability to manage a dynamic, and often complex caseload with experience of undertaking a range of assessments, care planning and completing safeguarding reports, taking the lead in safeguarding investigations.

experience
Adults - Physical Disabilities
skills
be able to manage challenging situations,be person centred,can work as an individual or part of a team,caring,competent at dealing with all stakeholders,critical thinking,emotional intelligence,empathy,handling medication,non-judgemental,oral communication,organisational,passionate,patience,report writing (incident logs and daily plans etc),resilient,show initiative,time management,tolerance,understanding,work well under pressure,written communication
qualifications
university
education
BA in social work

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