Social Worker – Adults Disabilities Service – Kilkenny
Our client provides a wide range of personal and social supports through day and residential services to adults with an intellectual disability in Kilkenny.
This role will involve some travel between services, a full drivers licence and access to a car is essential.
We are currently recruiting for a Social Worker for a permanent position and also a to cover maternity leave.
The role will involve working with adults from 18 – 65+ years requiring low to medium support.
As a Social Worker, the duties and responsibilities will include:
· Provide assessment, intervention and proactively provide personal and educational input into person centred program planning.
· Empower service users to advocate for themselves,
· Advocate on behalf of service users
· Provide support to and seek input from families and next of kin of service users
· Promote community participation and inclusion for service users
· Assist in goal setting and achievements for service users
· Liaise with other multi-disciplinary staff and agencies in order to meet the needs of each individual service user
This role will be a mix of working across residential and day centres and will also involve some outreach to adults living at home.
Interested candidates will have the following:
•A recognised qualification as a social worker and registration with CORU
•Some post graduate experience required, ideally within an intellectual disability service or working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
•A car and full drivers licence will be beneficial due to travel involved
For further information and a full job description, please email your c.v. to [email protected] or call Brian in confidence on 01 482 5352 / 087 222 6752
