
Social Worker Mental Health Team
- Soho, Central London
- £41,755-46,510 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- 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.
- A Social Work Qualification or equivalent.
- Understanding of relevant legislation.
- Relevant Social Work experience.