Sanctuary Personnel, a leading and award winning recruitment agency is currently looking for an experienced and dedicated Social Worker to work part time or full-time based in Shrewsbury, within the Community Interventions Pathway Team.
The pay rate for this locum Social Worker job is £25 per hour (Assignment rate) and is an initial 3-month contract.
Shift Pattern:
- Monday – Friday
- 09:00 am – 17:00 pm
Duties:
- Working in an identified adult community mental health pathway, with the flexibility of working across pathways, dependent on skill and service need
- Delivering a high quality clinical service to patients and their families
- Managing a complex caseload and responsible for clinical and caseload supervision of other team members where identified
- Be responsible for providing the nursing process to a specialist clinical pathway
- Delivering nursing interventions, in accordance with an agreed care plan, to an identified group of people experiencing mental health related difficulties
- Be responsible for working in an identified adult community mental health pathway, with the flexibility of working across pathways, dependent on skill and service need
- Be responsible for care coordination of an identified caseload
- Be responsible for undertaking clinical assessments, in accordance with the clinical pathway, in order to establish the person’s needs, goals, risks and strengths in order to generate a formulation based care plan agreed with all involved
- Be responsible for delivering nursing interventions, in accordance with an agreed care plan, to an identified group of people experiencing mental health related difficulties
- Be available for consultation, support and clinical supervision to other health professionals working within the Community Mental Health Pathway Service and other areas of the Trust where identified as appropriate
- Take responsibility for the management of a complex caseload, which includes, specialist assessment (within service specification), care planning in conjunction with service user and carer, evaluation of individual treatment plans (Care Programme Approach and Single Assessment Process)
- Responsible for participating in the setting of quality standards, including the auditing, monitoring and reviewing of practice in line with current clinical guidance practice and policy
- Administer medication, complying with relevant Trust procedures and NMC Guidance
- Assess patient's individual care needs, develop, implement and evaluate programmes of care
Requirements of the Social Worker:
- Community Mental Health Practitioner /Social Worker or Occupational Therapist (Band 6)
- Driver, mileage paid at 40p per mile
- Be available for individual supervision with agreed clinical supervisor in line with Trust policies
- Standard keyboard skills required for inputting data onto RiO
- Registered mental health Nurse on NMC Register
- Post-registration experience, evidence of formal courses and training at diploma/degree level
- Conforms to NMC requirements
- Registered Mentor
- Leadership qualification
- BSc degree in nursing or equivalent level
- Qualification in providing supervision
- Qualification in coaching
- Non – medical Prescriber
- Psychological intervention Qualification including EMDR, CBT, CBTp, Family Interventions, CAT, DBT
- Registered Sign off mentor for nurse students
- Evidence of extensive post registration experience with working with adults experiencing mental health related difficulties
- Experience of working with people who have difficulty in engaging with services and have complex mental health needs
- Experience of working in community setting and making decisions autonomously
- Experience of assessing, planning, co-ordinating and managing people with mental health problems in a community setting
- Experience of integrating care delivery across multi-disciplinary /multi agency teams
- Experience of leading/contributing to CPA/SAP process
- Experience of presenting at local/national level
- Experience and ability to carry out clinical audit
- Knowledge of the Mental Health NICE Guidelines
- Knowledge of NMC Code of Conduct
- Understanding of the principles of the Care Programme Approach and Community Care Act
- Demonstrate understanding of Equality and Anti-discriminatory practice
- Knowledge of other relevant local and national documents/drivers that affects practice
Benefits of working for Sanctuary Personnel:
- Daily payroll
- Free DBS and compliance service
- Access to exclusive roles that aren't available with other agencies
- Your own dedicated consultant with extensive social work knowledge
- Refer a Friend bonus - get £250 for each social worker you refer who we successfully place after 100 hours of work has been completed
- Find your own job bonus - Receive £250 for bringing your own position to us
- Clinical governance support with a specialist safeguarding team
- In-house payroll system
- Free digital copy of the Social Work News Magazine
Contact:
This Social Worker job is advertised by Paige Westbrook; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.
As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.
Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).
With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best-placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement
