Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1. Ensure an accurate comprehensive, holistic and up to date social history is available for each service user which offers complex formulations and recommendations.
2. Provide a skilled comprehensive assessment and social work service to people who have a Learning Disability and complex needs.
3. When it is part of an agreed care plan, focused casework with individual service users using a range of interventions.
4. Work in partnership with service users and carers to assess and identify their needs and
achieve service provision which is outcome focused and enhances their quality of life, independence and social integration.                                                     5. Contribute to planning and development of future services by providing complex analysis and information to assist the multi-disciplinary team.
6. In conjunction with the responsible Social Services Department or NHS Trusts, assist in the assessment of suitable after care placements working across professional boundaries.
7. Contribute to multi-disciplinary teams and participate with members to develop care plans in line with specialist risk assessments and needs, taking into account the family and social context, requiring the exchange of highly sensitive information.
8. Assist in co-ordination of care in the context of different legislation with other professionals within forensic services by sharing knowledge and understanding.
9. To produce reports to reflect needs of individual service users and issues of risk, sharing sensitive information to support intervention and formulation.
10. Engage with service users and families to ensure they are aware of legal rights.
11. Work in partnership with users and carers to meet social care needs within a range of complex needs which arise out of offending behaviour.
12. Utilise the Electronic Patient Record for inputting assessment data, record social work input to the care plan and transfer summaries which reflect the patient’s views.
13. With the service user’s permission, initiate visits and maintain contact with service user’s families and/or significant others, offering support, information and, where relevant to the care plan, joint family and service user’s sessions.                                                                                                         14. Take a role in promoting anti-discriminatory practice in a way that links the service user’s individual circumstances to the broader social, political, legal and cultural context.
15. Ensure that service users have access to independent advice on financial, legal and advocacy matters.
16. Take a role in Advocacy for the specialist support team, providing training, delivery of policies and shaping the service to ensure advocacy is reflected throughout practice.
17. To ensure child protection policies within the Specialist Support team ensuring effective collaboration with the wider health and social care community. This will involve the sharing of highly sensitive information with agencies, requiring tact and negotiation in agreeing appropriate action required.
18. To ensure in safeguarding children and vulnerable adults ensuring policies and procedures are in place within the SST and that service delivery compliments the wider health and social care community, linking with local safeguarding hubs, communicating highly sensitive information that requires tack and negotiation in agreeing appropriate action as necessary.
19. To ensure policy, procedure and service delivery in terms of working with MAPPA, Victim Liaison Services, and Domestic Violence and the National Probation Services ensuring effective collaboration and connectivity with the wider health and social care
community. 

20. Enable service users and carers to exercise their rights and promote their equality and diversity.
21. Link and maintain contact with statutory, voluntary, charity and external agencies to inform assessments and formulate detailed and complex care packages. Promote involvement of voluntary agencies to meet social care needs.
22. Participate in various multi-disciplinary groups in order to contribute to service governance and development within the workplace.
23. Will contribute to research and training to other professionals from internal and external agencies utilising own knowledge base.
24. Liaise with the Specialist Support Team Manager through regular meetings and supervision to ensure that social care needs of individuals are being appropriately addressed.