ASW Up to 2 year's experience (post ASYE) (London MOC)

The Assessment & Intake Team is a vibrant and fast paced team based in the community and provides an initial assessment function for the Older Persons and Physical Disability Service. The team works carries out short term pieces of work – up to 6 – 8 weeks. The team complete Care Act Assessments put in place long term packages of care, undertake carers assessment, urgent assessments for care and respite, assess for placement in residential and nursing home settings, jointly undertake some DSTs with nurse assessors, complete mental capacity assessments and undertake the initial concern phase of adults safeguarding before passing any enquiries across to the case management team. A&I has OTs in the team who support the social work assessments by completing OT assessments, providing advice to the Social workers and providing provision of moving and handling equipment. Any cases which are complex and have identified and agreed long term social work intervention needs are not held by A&I

and would be transferred to the case management team. About the role: Main duties will be holding a case load, completing Care Act Assessments, undertaking unscheduled reviews of care, completing carers assessments, presenting packages of care to the funding panel for approval, using community resources to support service users and their families to maximise their independence and to ensure that all interventions are strength based. You would also be responsible for completing Mental Capacity Assessments and Best Interest Decision making, arrangement care home placements from the community, stabilising complex case issues ready for transfer to the longer term team and undertaking the initial concern stage of Adults Safeguarding. The role includes the provision of a short-term intensive assessment period, assessing the person’s ability to maximise their independence and to provide a robust assessment that measures the amount of ongoing support needed. In the role you will liaise and

work closely with partner agencies such as the NHS, ICB, housing and community voluntary agencies in addition to working closely with the Occupational Therapy staff within the team. You will need to be skilled in thinking creatively in meeting the needs of service users and informal carers and will be required to utilise strong communication skills in building relationships and trust with those whom you work. What we offer: Southwark Older People and Physical Disabilities Service offer a number of key benefits to all staff including Locum workers, which make the Borough and Service and attractive proposition for locum staff. Access to a broad range of on-site, Microsoft Teams led and e-learning training through our My Learning platform. Training includes the mandatory trainings for ongoing best practice in addition to a large variety of additional high quality training programmes. Flexible working arrangements. Presently the Assessment and Intake Team are

Experience with various complex caseloads in OPPD

• Prior experience using IT Databases e.g. Mosaic/Liquid Logic

• Safeguarding investigations experience

• 2 years’ experience post ASYE

operating a 2 days in the office and 3 days working from home rota. This enables team members to reduce the amount of commuting (which impacts on work life balance) whilst also ensuring good onsite support and integration with the team and managers. Use of Team Oyster card when undertaking visits. This prevents the need for staff members to have to pay themselves of work based visits. Laptop and work smart phone provided to all staff. Supportive and understanding management structure. Opportunities to lead on short term projects and opportunities for development and transition to permanent contract. Competitive hourly rate. Convenient location. The Queens Road office is in the heart of Southwark. It is well connected to bus routes and the Queens Road train station (which is two stops from London Bridge and Canada Water) is directly opposite the road from the office. * Varied and challenging cases. The work completed within the team

supports the ongoing development and experience of the members within. The role will be initially for 3 months but we anticipate will be extended pending permanent recruitment.

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