Adults Social Worker - Learning Disabilities and Autism

Our client Leicestershire county council is looking for an Adults Social Worker to join their Learning Disabilities and Autism team.Job purposeDeliver a high quality, person-centred, accountable statutory social care service, ensuring that vulnerable adults and their families and careers;are able to assess, manage and review their own needs and risks, maximise their own independence and self-direct the responses to deliver agreed outcomesCan access personalised care and support to meet their assessed needs and maintain themselves in the communityAre protected and safeguardedDuties and ResponsibilitesEnsure high quality outcome-based responses to all citizens eligible for social care services by;Providing appropriate responses or referrals within required timescales, organisational, policy and legislative requirements including the reimbursement legislation and eligibility guidelinesproviding prompt support to meet immediate risks and needs in crisis situationsproviding targeted, appropriate support to citizens'' self-assessments of their needs, working in partnership with colleagues in health and other partner agencies to contribute to multi-disciplinary assessments as requiredacting as care co-ordinator for citizens with complex needs, supporting high risk, complex assessments where there are specific concerns requiring a high level of specialist qualification and knowledge and/or where there are difficult life circumstances or serious trauma.ensure that responses are ..... full job details .....