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Adult’s Social Worker / Mental Health Team (Early Help)

Manchester Contract, Full Time £30 - £30 per hour

Adult’s Social Worker
Team: Mental Health
Location: Manchester

Details:

Require experience in mental health setting, triaging MH referrals and doing MH checks and providing advise and guidance, checking PARIS systems.

The role holder will work with complex cases in accordance with statutory responsibilities.
They will deploy these responsibilities in accordance with national and local policies and procedures to secure positive outcomes for citizens.
The role holder will manage safeguarding risk effectively, working within a multi-agency environment, providing a professional social work service.
To promote the independence and well-being of adults of working age and/or older people.
To review citizens’ and carers care and support needs and eligibility in accordance with eligibility standards, while underpinning best practise in adult mental health.
To work in a holistic and strength-based way, ensuring customers and families remain central to the processes they are part of.
To negotiate and arbitrate skills to deal effectively with conflict within emotive or difficult situations.

To integrate the six principles of trauma-informed practice, aiming to overcome the challenges individuals affected by trauma may face when accessing health and care services.

Key Role Accountabilities:

Effectively manage a complex caseload with appropriate supervision, guidance and support.
The role holder will be accountable for highly complex decision making across a range of social work duties and responsibilities.
Prepare and produce a variety of high quality and professional written documentation on behalf of the City Council in accordance with national and local policies and procedures and within agreed timescales.
Work in conjunction with and providing consultation to partner agencies to deliver effective planning for adults, their carers and families to ensure positive outcomes. This will include
representing the City Council at a range of meetings, proceedings and reviews as required.
Ensure that the practice of ethical record keeping is observed, and recording is evidence based, accurate and up to date.
Take an active role in team and service development. This will include supervising students and providing support to colleagues as and when required.
A personal commitment to continuous self, professional and organisational development.
Through personal example, open commitment and clear action, ensure diversity is positively valued, resulting in equal access and treatment in employment, service delivery and communications

 

Ashberry Recruitment would ask that applicants meet the following:

 

  • DIPSW or equivalent qualification in Social Work
  • Social Work England registration
  • Enhanced and in date DBS certificate.
  • Excellent communication skills and be able to make good decisions based on information available.
  • Can work alone and within/contribute to a team/multi-agency set ups
  • Possess knowledge of service needs.
  • Competent IT skills and be able to navigate electronic file/recording systems.
  • Can write clear, concise, and robust assessment/reports/files.
  • Have a flexible approach to work and working hours when the need arises

 

Why Ashberry?

  • Dedicated experienced Consultant providing the ultimate support through your job search
  • Friendly compliance team to guide you through the registration and placement process
  • Provides your essential Enhanced DBS
  • £250 Referral bonus.

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