We're looking for a Specialist Social Worker with a passion for diversity and inclusion to join our team.
Could that be you?
Who are we?
We are deaf-led charity, supporting and celebrating deaf people. We were established in
1835 and work with deaf people across Scotland and the South of England.
Our work is geared towards empowering all deaf people to achieve their potential and fully participate in society, with equality of rights, access and opportunity.
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About you
As a Specialist Social Worker, you will have excellent communication skills, able to prioritise your own workload and the ability to motivate and manage a small team. A means of communication will be through British Sign Language (BSL) therefore competency in BSL is desirable, but not essential as training will be provided.
You will have a strong grasp of current social work practice and issues with three years' post qualifying social work practice within a local authority, third sector or Charity setting in adult or children's services with knowledge of the deaf community and its culture.
The role
The Specialist Social Worker heads up the Social Care team which consists of two Community Care Assistants.
The aim of the role is to build and maintain relationships within the deaf community while
providing a high-quality social work service to deaf people, their families and carers within Edinburgh and the Lothians. This opportunity comes at an exciting time as currently we are developing a service for children under 10.
Key responsibilities of the role include:
Undertake holistic assessments of deaf clients
Maintain a schedule of initial/6 month/ annual reviews for all deaf clients
Support clients from referral onwards supporting them through an appropriate pathway to
support
Manage the duty service offering support, information and advice within 48 hours of contact
Provide long term support to clients as required
Maintain case notes
Maintain log of duty contacts, assessment, reviews and ongoing support for quarterly returns
in line with Local Authority service level agreements
Manage quarterly feedback for the service
Undertake adult support and protection procedures and other statutory procedures alongside
mainstream social work support
Provide safeguarding advice to the agency
To provide some advice and support to other agencies working with deaf people using or
wanting to use services
Engage with other services and forums to ensure services are linked into and
support complementary services
To help identify gaps in service provision and to identify ways in which these could be filled
What's on offer?
Occupational pension scheme with employer contributions of 6%.
32 days leave (inc bank holidays) pro rata for part time
24/7 access to an Employee Assistance Programme provided by Health Assured.
BSL Training
In-house Mental Health First Aiders.
Access to the Cycle to Work Scheme and IT Voucher Scheme.
Ongoing support for learning and development through our PDR process
Death in Service Benefit
Please get in touch with Leah Rowley on 0131 240 0887 / to find out more.
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.
