Job Description

Emergency Duty Team Social Worker (EDT)

Information about the role:

Grade

K + 1 (46,142- 49,282 (inclusive of 25/26 pay award) plus a 20% (SCP38) EDT allowance for hours all hours worked, and a 15% recruitment and retention payment. Bank holiday work will be paid at double rate.

Group: Children's Social Care and Lifelong Learning

Service:

Children's Social Care

What we want you to do:

Provide out of hours urgent social work services to vulnerable people to safeguard the liberty, well-being and safety of children, their families, and adults in need of urgent out of hours social care support.





Good awareness of local policies and procedures and will maintain accurate records, ensuring timely handover and information is fully understood by others. You will identify and highlight good practice, emerging research, case law and relevant policy changes with a focus on sharing skills and knowledge and promoting a consistent, good practice approach across the service.





Work collaboratively with other professionals and agencies to ensure a safe emergency response working in partnership with families/carers and all key agencies in decision making and planning.



Joined up working with other colleagues in Children's Services, Adult Services and other Council services to promote high quality assessments, intervention and support. Including working with other out of hours colleagues, such as Care Call, out of hours housing/homeless services, EDT foster carers, Rapid Response out of hours home care support service, and intermediate care facility that provides urgent care for those at risk of hospital admission.





Identify and organise resources to meet assessed needs in an emergency. You will need to have a creative approach to ensure the welfare and safety of service users until the next working day.





Participate in training courses, elected and mandatory, to develop and maintain continued professional development required by the Council and professional standards bodies. To actively engage in supervision and service meetings as necessary.





To participate in the education of student social workers, mentoring sessional social workers, professionally supporting other Council services out of hours as a senior worker on shift (they is an on call rota for senior management support), and assisting in the induction of relevant colleagues.





You will support, develop and maintain the operations of the service as required in support of the team manager and service. You will work as part of a rota system covering out of hours including evenings, weekends, and bank holiday working as per the needs of the service, supported by the commitment of all participants to ensure the rota is covered at all times.





Work to professional standards when protecting vulnerable adults and children in line with statutory duties. You will undertake lone working and will work agilely and make use of associated technologies confidentially.





Other responsibilities allocated which are appropriate to the grade of the post.

What you need to be successful ... the essentials:

Qualifications

Recognised Social Work Degree Qualification and post qualifying training Possess university qualification necessary to practice as an Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) Social Work England registration Enhanced Disclose and Barring Service (DBS) clearance Current driving licence and access to a car or mobility support

Knowledge

Often experienced social workers are either experienced in children or adult practice, knowledge of both is preferred but EDT can support knowledge development in unfamiliar practice areas for the right candidate.

Children

Adults

Child care legislation, national policy and statutory/local guidance

Mental Capacity Act, Mental Health Act and Care Act


Child Protection procedures / Children Act and multi-agency responsibilities including corporate parenting agenda, missing, slavery, exploitation and trafficking themes and risks associated responses

Mental health, substance misuse, domestic abuse and impacts upon individuals', children and families, physical ill health and disability.


Child development across the age group and inhibitors to growth and development.

Safeguarding Adults procedures and risk assessment skills.

General

Assessment models, social work interventions.

IT and associated systems.


Performance agenda relevant to Social Work.

Social work values.

Experience

Proactively managing risk and applying safeguarding processes Prioritise and manage competing demands and work autonomously Operating with a high degree of independence and responsibility Relevant post qualifying statutory social work experience

Personal attributes

Empathic, respectful and emotionally intelligent Resilient and able to work autonomously under pressure Highly reflective and able to learn from experience Decisive whilst recognising professional lines of governance and accountability Commitment to work a mixture of evenings, weekend and bank holidays.

Our social work standards ...

how we want you to be:

Customer Focused

Puts the customer first and provides excellent service to both internal and external customers

Communication and Engagement

Uses appropriate methods to express information concisely to make sure people understand.



Shares and listens to information and ensures employees views are sought out: listened to and make a difference. Facilitates and empowers employees to make things happen. Treats individuals with respect and consideration.

Team Player

Works with others to achieve results and develop good working relationships

Developing Teams and Individuals

Promotes and supports team and individual learning and development and uses delegation to create a sense of ownership and high-level organizational issues and encouraging individuals to stretch beyond their current capabilities.

Make things happen

Takes responsibility for personal organisation and achieving results

Flexible

Adapts to change and works effectively in a variety of situations

Learn and develop

Actively improves by developing and applying new skills and knowledge and learns from past experiences

Manage performance

Effectively manages the performance of teams and individuals to ensure results are achieved

Personal impact

Is self-aware, learns continuously and adapts behaviour in response to feedback. Makes things happen, operates with resilience, flexibility and integrity