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Job Description
PE Global Healthcare are recruiting for CORU Registered Social Workers in Dublin
Duties and Responsibilities;
- Provide a direct point of access for the local community and offer initial and holistic social assessment and intervention to children, youth, families and groups.
- Provide an initial assessment service to the care group and to develop referral procedures with other social work networked services.
- Identify service users' individual and collective needs in partnership with them and co-create early interventions and/or social action strategies to meet those needs.
- Manage and prioritise a caseload appropriate to the post.
- Provide supportive counselling, emotional and practical support, and information to service users and their families.
- Adopt a holistic approach aimed at enhancing the quality of life, health and social well-being of all persons within the service area.
- Promote independence, self-reliance, self-determination and empowerment with persons in their environment, with families and local groups.
- Make it possible for service users to advocate for their own needs, or where appropriate advocate on behalf of service users
- Plan, deliver and engage in systemic interventions as appropriate with children, youth and families, groups, organisations and communities.
- Participate and take leadership in community needs assessment and ongoing community involvement including initiating and participating in prevention and health promotion activities.
- Deliver social work service in collaboration with other disciplines / agencies as required, in appropriate settings reflecting the needs of the service user.
- Assess where social conditions are a major factor in health and social wellbeing, consult and plan with the service user/ relevant team/ service and arrange appropriate social services for those who need them.
- Monitor and evaluate outcomes of person centred care plans for individual service users
- Actively participate as a member of the relevant team/ service in team building and change management initiatives.
Eligible Criteria;
- Be registered in the Social Work Register maintained by the Social Work Registration Board maintained at CORU (or have entitlement to be registered and obtain registration prior to appointment).
- 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 and professional ability) for the proper discharge of the duties of the office.
- The post holder will require access to appropriate transport as the post may involve travel.
Benefits;
- The standard working week is 35 hours
- Annual leave is 29 days
If this sounds like the right fit for you, please send your CV to or give me a call on 934 for a confidential chat.