Social Worker - Team Lead

Location Bantry
Job-type Permanent
Salary €65079 - €75068 per annum
Contact Roisin Sheehan
Email email Roisin
Reference J363247
Date Published over 1 year ago
Role: Social Worker Team Leader
Location: Cork (West)
Organisation: Private
Salary: €65079 -75,068

Job Type: 1 Year Fixed Term (role will become permanent following completion of fixed term period)
TTM Healthcare are currently recruiting for a Social Worker Team Leader, based in Bantry/Dunmanway. The successful candidate will also manage a caseload and supervise and manage a team of social workers to provide a quality service to the children and adults we support. They provide a wide range of community-based day, residential, respite, multi-disciplinary, home support and outreach supports and services to children and adults with an intellectual disability with and without autism, and their families, throughout West Cork.

Key Responsibilities

•Be responsible for the overall management of the day-to-day provision of the social work service to children and adults.
•Provide clinical leadership and an appropriate level of supervision consistent with good practice to the social work team.
•Provide clinical guidance, advice and support to management as required.
•Undertake the duties and responsibilities of a Designated Person as required.
•Take direct responsibility for a defined caseload as required, in particular cases that are complex, require specialist knowledge, sharing expertise with multidisciplinary colleagues.
•Ensure the implementation of models of best practice / evidence-based practice.
•Ensure the delivery of social work services in accordance with legislation, policies and procedures, guidelines and protocols.
•Ensure the delivery of social work services in an integrated and multidisciplinary manner.

Key Requirements:

•Must be registered in the Social Work Register maintained by the Social Work Registration Board at CORU.
•Maintain live annual registration on the Social Workers Register maintained by the Social Workers Registration Board at CORU.
•Must have the requisite knowledge and ability, including a high standard of suitability, professional and managerial ability, for the proper discharge of the duties of the office.
•Have five years relevant post qualification experience.
•Demonstrate clinical and professional knowledge to carry out the duties and responsibilities of the role
•Demonstrate an ability to apply knowledge to best practice.
•Demonstrate a commitment to and the capacity to plan and deliver care in an effective and resourceful manner within a rights-based and person-centred model of support.

To hear more about the role, call Roisin on 01-5134908 or apply today


TTM Healthcare Solutions is an Equal Opportunities Employer