Job Description
Responsibilities
- Assist in daily management of workload allocation within the specialist area, taking into account changing and competing demands and making decisions about prioritisation of caseloads.
- Supervise junior staff and ensure adherence to rules and policies within the section, department or facility.
- Conduct, with the department head, performance appraisals of staff.
- Take charge of care management for vulnerable clients, producing comprehensive social assessments, formulating social care plans, and identifying relevant resources.
- Coordinate the delivery of social care plans and liaise with government or charity agencies.
- Assess highly complex psycho‑social needs with families and caregivers, set objectives, develop care plans and deliver appropriate interventions.
- Assist the multidisciplinary team to recognise and intervene for high‑risk patients, using approved criteria for assessment of patients wi...