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Elizabeth Moyo

Manchester

Summary

Social work professional with robust background in providing comprehensive support to individuals and families. Skilled in developing and implementing tailored intervention plans to address specific needs. Strong focus on team collaboration and achieving impactful outcomes, adaptable to evolving circumstances.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience

Work History

Safeguarding social worker

Stockport Adult social work team
01.2025 - Current
  • Screening referrals on duty to determine whether they meet the threshold.
  • Completing section 42 enquiries.
  • Attending strategy meetings and Case conferences
  • Attending and contributing to MARAC meetings.

Hospital Social worker

Manx care
05.2022 - 10.2024
  • Carrying out ongoing assessments of people that are admitted to hospital to facilitate quick and safe discharges.
  • Responsible for a caseload of varying complexity, commensurate with ability and qualifications, receiving and responding to referrals from the wards.
  • Assessing clients’ needs in consultation with their families/carers and with other professionals and agree levels of support/intervention.
  • Effectively managing people’s needs to prevent crisis by providing a quick resolution, using relevant legislation and resources.
  • Gathering information, written assessments, reports, and statements to support other service professionals, managers and agencies in making decisions related to care.
  • Ensuring client records are kept confidential in accordance with relevant legislation, policy, and procedures.
  • Plan and complete Wellbeing assessments reflecting people’s individual needs and arrange services ensuring appropriate resource management.
  • Manage care plans support and review care needs in line with policy, procedures, and legislation.

Social worker

Musgrove Park Hospital
02.2022 - 04.2022
  • Duties included: Carrying out ongoing assessments of people who are admitted to hospital to facilitate quick and safe discharges.
  • Responsible for a caseload of varying complexity, commensurate with ability and qualifications, receiving and responding to referrals from various sources.
  • Assessing clients’ needs in consultation with them and with other professionals and agree levels of support/intervention.
  • Effectively managing people’s needs to prevent crisis by providing a quick resolution, using relevant legislation and resources.
  • Responsibility for the assessment of carers (including young carers) needs and the formulation of a carers care plan.
  • Gathering information, written assessments, reports, and statements to support other service professionals, managers and agencies in making decisions related to care.
  • Ensuring client records are kept confidential in accordance with relevant legislation, policy, and procedures.
  • Plan and complete strength-based assessments reflecting people’s individual needs and arrange services ensuring appropriate resource management.
  • Manage care plans support and review care needs in line with policy, procedures, and legislation.
  • Facilitate and develop effective joint working relationships, with primary care, housing, police, and any other agencies as appropriate.
  • Promoting people’s equality, diversity, and rights, by developing, maintaining and working in an anti-discriminatory way.
  • Contribute to multi agency team working and participate in team meetings. Act as link worker between health and social care.
  • Enabling individuals, families, and carers to address issues which affect their health and social wellbeing using a strength-based approach.
  • Take responsibility for my learning, training, and development.
  • Acting as Duty Officer for a team, participating in office duty rotas, responding effectively to referrals and enquiries as required.
  • Supervising the work of unqualified, vocationally qualified staff or students under the direction of the team manager.

Social worker/Best interest Assessor

Manchester City council
06.2020 - 01.2022
  • In addition to the above roles, I worked as a Best interest assessor and my role involved:
  • Undertaking the Mental Capacity Act Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (MCA DOLS) assessment to provide protection for vulnerable people who are accommodated in hospitals or care homes in circumstances that amount to a deprivation of their liberty and who lack the capacity to consent to the care or treatment they need.
  • The role involved working in accordance with the statutory requirements set out in the DOLS Code of Practice, which has legal standing.
  • As a Best Interest Assessor, I was responsible for making informed, independent best interest decisions within the context of a DOLS assessment.
  • Balancing an individual’s right to autonomy and self-determination with their right to safety and respond proportionately.
  • The ability to effectively assess risk in complex situations and use analysis to make proportionate decisions.
  • Being able to effectively communicate key and complex information to all levels of staff, ensuring that this information is understood.
  • Being able to deal with sensitive issues in difficult situations and negotiating the best way to support individuals in a way which is less intrusive to their lives but protects them from harm.
  • Having excellent time management skills, creating own work schedules, prioritising, preparing work in advance and setting realistic timescales for myself and others.
  • Having the ability to absorb, understand and quickly assimilate complex information and concepts and compare information from a number of different sources. Ability to identify patterns and trends that may impact on decisions and propose realistic conclusions identifying the risks and any assumptions made.
  • Utilising effective decision-making skills with the ability to resolve complex issues in a pressurised environment.
  • I developed effective ways of gathering information using various as we have had to do most assessments virtually. This means I have developed the best ways to communicate effectively with individuals, their relatives and other professionals, always ensuring that individual’s needs remain at the centre of the whole process.

Social worker

Reed employment agency
06.2019 - 06.2020
  • I joined Reed employment agency and worked on the Adult social work team in Manchester, Tameside and Trafford city councils:
  • My role included, completing Care Act assessments for older people and younger adults with physical and mental health problems and arranging eligible services to meet their identified care and support needs.
  • Using the strength-based approach to work directly with adults, their families and carers to identify their capabilities and help enhance their problem-solving skills whilst identifying and help them manage risks.
  • Assessing people in hospital who are deemed to have care & support needs and facilitating their timely discharge from hospital.
  • Completing required documents including Strength-based assessments and Support plans, outlining individuals care and support needs and the support required to meet these.
  • Creating support plans that are tailored to the individual’s care and support needs and exploring different ways to meet services including, cash individualised budgets, homecare support and placing individuals in 24-hour care placement, based on the outcomes of the assessments.
  • Completing review/re-assessment of individual’s needs, to ensure the care in place continues to meet individuals’ needs.
  • Undertaking mental capacity assessments where there is cause to suspect someone lacks capacity and chair Best interests meeting in line with the principles of the Best Interest process.
  • I have undertaken numerous Safeguarding investigations to manage risks and protect vulnerable adults in accordance to section 42 enquiries.
  • I carried a caseload of citizens with complex care needs and I make autonomous decisions regarding the level of intervention required, as well as seek guidance from team manager when necessary.
  • I have completed training in Liquid logic system and my confidence in using this system has improved. I have supported less experienced colleagues and worked jointly with other professionals including GPs, OTs, physiotherapists, district nurses, housing services etc.
  • Providing direct support for service users and their families in accordance with statutory responsibilities and local and national policies and procedures in order to secure positive outcomes for the individuals.
  • Develop and manage a relationship to support service users and their families in line with statutory obligations through complex decision making to allow service users to access improved future opportunities. In conjunction with partner agencies and stakeholders, effectively assess and plan service users’ individual needs to ensure positive outcomes for Manchester residents. Develop positive and effective solutions in all aspects of service delivery and engagement, focusing on the quality of outcomes for service users.
  • I also attended the Patient Integrated care meeting (PICT) at the local GP practice where we discussed patients with complex needs and are at end of life.

Community social worker

Salford city council
05.2011 - 05.2019
  • Worked as a community social worker in various Integrated care teams for Salford city council. My role as an adult social worker involved:
  • Undertaking direct work with adults, older people, and their families and carers, using a strength-based approach to assess for eligible social care needs, whilst problem solving and completing appropriate risk assessments to ensure a safeguarding approach is taken.
  • Ensuring that older people and younger adults with a disability or vulnerability, eligible for social care receive both an assessment and any subsequent support necessary to meet their identified social care needs. The main tasks were:
  • Designing a creative support plan based on an individual’s assessed eligible needs and indicative budget, ensuring that universal services and natural support are considered.
  • Encouraging the use of direct payments for individuals to purchase their own care and provide or signpost the relevant support necessary.
  • Utilising the support planning process to negotiate, problem solve and promote input from informal and formal community networks to ensure personal budgets achieve service user outcomes and maximise independent living and well-being.
  • Undertake the review/re-assessment of individual needs, instigating the calculation of a revised indicative budget if needs have changed.
  • Ensuring that the principles of the Care Act 2014 and the Mental Capacity Act 2005 are acted upon, in line with the Social Work Standards of Proficiency, as outlined by the HCPC.
  • Establishing and developing effective collaborative working relationships with other professionals.
  • Identifying and ensuring the appropriate response to individuals who are vulnerable and appear to be at risk of significant harm – keeping people safe (bearing in mind the right to self-determination for those with capacity)
  • Undertaking Mental capacity assessments, in line with the principles of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and ensuring the best interests of individuals are met.
  • Ensuring commitment to the Professional Capabilities Framework and continuous professional development, as outlined the HCPC and Social work England.
  • Managing complex caseloads, offering skilled support to colleagues both within and outside the organisation to inform complex and holistic person-centred assessments.
  • Arranging and chairing a wide range of meetings and conferences, offering expert support, and producing high quality assessments and reports.
  • During this period-I obtained Practice Educator qualification (Level 1 & 2) 2013-14.
  • 2017-I qualified as a Best Interest Assessor and a Practice Educator

Hospital social worker

Salford Royal hospital
04.2009 - 11.2011
  • Worked as a Hospital social worker at Salford Royal hospital. My role involved undertaking Social Care assessments for adults who were in hospital, ensuring a safe discharges form hospital.
  • Ensuring that people are discharged from hospital in a timely fashion and that they and their carers receive services for which they are eligible (this will be a core role for some social work staff).

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Social work

University of Zimbabwe
Harare
01.2009

Baccalaureate (BA) - History

Skills

  • I am very hardworking and committed to delivering services to people in a timely manner following local authority procedures
  • I am a good team player and committed to building relationships and networks with internal and external contacts
  • Ability to work within set deadlines and always maintaining high quality and high standard of practice
  • Ability to prioritise my work and maintain excellent timekeeping
  • I am open to constructive criticism and use it to improve my skills and practice
  • I am a very hardworking individual and work autonomously; I also know when to seek guidance from more senior/experienced staff as necessary
  • Ability to communicate information verbally and in writing in a range of ways to different audiences
  • I have the ability to foster new ideas of working as well as challenge ideas which may put individuals at risk
  • I have a good and up-to-date knowledge of all policies, legislation and procedures which relate to current Social work practices
  • I have the ability to carry out social work assessments, arrange packages of care and work with other relevant professionals to ensure people receive the level of support to make their lives more manageable
  • I hold level 2 Practice educator training which means I possess the ability to supervise students on attain training qualification
  • I hold Best Interest assessor training and have carried out Deprivation of liberty assessments
  • I am adaptable and confident in taking up new challenges
  • Compassionate
  • Case management
  • Client advocacy
  • Conflict resolution
  • Efficient under pressure

References

References will be available upon request

Timeline

Safeguarding social worker

Stockport Adult social work team
01.2025 - Current

Hospital Social worker

Manx care
05.2022 - 10.2024

Social worker

Musgrove Park Hospital
02.2022 - 04.2022

Social worker/Best interest Assessor

Manchester City council
06.2020 - 01.2022

Social worker

Reed employment agency
06.2019 - 06.2020

Community social worker

Salford city council
05.2011 - 05.2019

Hospital social worker

Salford Royal hospital
04.2009 - 11.2011

Bachelor of Arts - Social work

University of Zimbabwe

Baccalaureate (BA) - History

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