Social Worker - Adults Multi-Disciplinary Team
Social Worker Mental Health Team
| Location | Soho |
| Job type | Permanent |
| Salary | £41,755 - 46,510 per year |
| Consultant | Zehnn Young |
| Call | . |
| Reference | 240876 |
Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker within the Mental Health Team to work Full Time based in Kingston.
The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £46,510 per annum.
Main duties:
- To ensure compliance with the professional code of conduct and fulfil obligations under the relevant legislation.
- To be fully responsible for managing a caseload of customers and carers with complex needs.
- To provide a professional social work intervention aimed at achieving specific outcomes in order to improve the customers wellbeing, independence & recovery.
- To effectively work in collaboration with health colleagues from Mental Health Trusts in order to provide an effective integrated health and social care service.
- Promote user empowerment and anti-discriminatory practice.
- To provide practice assessor and/or practice educator role for AMHP, ASYE, Social Work Students.
- To develop and maintain effective working relationships with all partners (both internal and external) in order to ensure that the team can deliver a co-ordinated, timely and appropriate service to the customer.
- To promote and participate in good team working practices and to demonstrate these whenever possible.
- To keep up to date with developments, products and information relating to the service and the rest of the council to ensure that appropriate and timely information is given to customers.
- To ensure proportionate risk assessments for both the customer and the carer associated with any support plan have been carried out.
- To undertake reviews of customers with long-term needs as required and within statutory timelines and carry out reassessments as required.
- To actively and co-operatively as an effective team member, collaborating with and informing colleagues within the team, across the council and with partners.
- To be responsible for accepting referrals, undertaking screening, and carrying out assessment of need of customers.
- To ensure appropriate and timely intervention for customers who present with urgent needs, thus ensuring their immediate wellbeing and safety.
- To facilitate purposeful activity and occupation, meaningful relationships, suitable housing, maximising income to access community, support to recognise personal history and reduce risks around abuse or neglect.
Requirements of this Social Worker role:
- A Social Work Qualification or equivalent.
- Understanding of relevant legislation.
- Relevant Social Work experience.
Contact:
This Social Worker job is advertised by Zehnn Young; 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.