Social Worker - Somerset Council-Yeovil - Yeovil
(2025-03)
As an Adult Social Care Neighbourhood Social Worker, my role is to support adults with care and support needs to live as independently and safely as possible within their communities using a strengths-based approach. Work closely with health professionals, voluntary organisations, carers, and community.
- Completing Care Act 2014 assessments to identify eligible care and support needs.
- Carrying out Mental Capacity Act (MCA) assessments and making Best Interests decisions where appropriate.
- Undertaking Section 42 safeguarding enquiries and managing risks to protect adults from abuse or neglect.
- Developing and reviewing care and support plans that promote independence and wellbeing.
- Arranging and reviewing care packages, including home care, day services, respite care, supported living, and residential placements.
- Working with people to maximise their strengths, family support, and community resources before considering formal services.
- Supporting carers by completing Carer's Assessments and identifying support available to them.
- Working collaboratively with GPs, district nurses, occupational therapists, mental health teams, housing, and voluntary organisations.
- Managing complex casework, maintaining accurate case records, and producing high-quality assessments and reports.
- Attending multidisciplinary meetings, safeguarding meetings, and Best Interests meetings.
- Advising people about Direct Payments, Personal Budgets, benefits, and community resources.
- Monitoring outcomes and regularly reviewing whether support continues to meet the person's need.
- Build strong knowledge of local community resources.
Social Worker - Somerset Council-Yeovil - Yeovil
(2021-06 - 2025-03)
As a Children Looked After (CLA) Social Worker, I am responsible for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people who are in the care of the local authority under the Children Act 1989.
- Undertaking assessments of children's needs, strengths, and risks.
- Developing, implementing, and reviewing care plans to ensure each child's needs are met.
- Building positive relationships with children and ensuring their views, wishes, and feelings are heard and reflected in decision-making.
- Visiting children regularly in line with statutory requirements and recording visits accurately.
- Chairing or contributing to care planning meetings, statutory reviews, and professional meetings.
- Working closely with foster carers, residential homes, schools, health professionals, and other agencies to provide coordinated support.
- Supporting children to achieve positive outcomes in education, health, emotional wellbeing, and independence.
- Promoting and maintaining safe and appropriate family contact where this is in the child's best interests.
- Completing court reports, statements, and attending court proceedings when required.
- Identifying and managing safeguarding concerns, responding to risks, and taking appropriate protective action.
- Supporting permanence planning through reunification, long-term fostering, special guardianship, or adoption where appropriate.
- Preparing older young people for adulthood through pathway planning, life skills development, education, employment, and accommodation planning.
- Maintaining accurate, timely, and evidence-based case records using the local authority's recording system.
- Working within relevant legislation and guidance, including the Children Act 1989, Children and Families Act 2014, Care Planning, Placement and Case Review (England) Regulations 2010, and Working Together to Safeguard Children.
Senior Social Worker - Federal Psychiatric Hospital Yaba. Lagos Nigeria - Lagos
(2012-06 - 2021-05)
Involved in early intervention services with a particular emphasis on children deemed in need of care and support. Working in a mental health setting. The core social work methods employed are group work and case work. This position has equipped with psychotherapeutic skills. From time to time if early intervention services are not successful, required to refer children to the Statutory Team.
- Conduct risk assessment of children whose parents have mental health issues.
- Provide support and education to families in relation to child protection and mental health.
- Recommend services and support for children in need through a multidisciplinary hospital team comprising of Psychologist, Doctors, Nurses and Psychiatrists.
- Parent assessments of mental health patients with a view of determining parenting capacity.
- Home visits to children at risk due to parents' mental health concerns, visits done with a view to determine if home circumstances are conducive.
- Provide support to families through counseling sessions and other health services for families.
- Refer families to financial support services.
- Coordinate social services needed after discharge.
