Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Mental Health Social Worker to work full time based in Haringey.
The salary for this permanent Mental Health Social Worker job is up to £47,857 per annum.
Main duties:
- Act as a Social Worker/Care Coordinator with a number of people open to the services in the team, carrying out Care Act, and initial assessments using the Care Programme approach (CPA) determining eligibility, need, and the required level of care and support.
- Carry out complex person-centred assessments ensuring that all care offered is evidence based and all interventions take into account of physical, cultural, psychological, spiritual and age-related needs.
- Build a strong partnership with voluntary sector organisations, community groups, social enterprises and blue light services.
- Ensure sound risk assessment of all service users to inform levels of care required and which highlight risk to self and others.
- Provide leadership on the social care agenda within the team and a good knowledge of Safeguarding Children & Adults processes and Making Safeguarding personal.
- Maintain clear, unambiguous and contemporaneous written clinical records on all service users in accordance with relevant professional standards and Local Authority and Trust policies, ensuring that confidentiality is kept at all times.
- Keep informed of research and the latest developments/guidance in the provision of mental health care.
- Maintain a caseload of clients who require Social Care interventions from secondary mental health services.
- Receive on-going professional social work and managerial supervision; attend staff development and training as required.
- Safeguard and protect the interest of the individual service users and their carers, serve the interest of society, ensure effective use of public funds and protect the Council and Trusts reputation.
- To undertake any other duties as may be required by Haringey Head of Mental Health services, and Team Leader/Community Service Manager in the Locality Mental Health Team.
- The post holder may be required to work at alternative locations within Haringey Mental Health Services.
Requirements of this role:
- Social Work Qualification or equivalent.
- Understanding of relevant legislation.
- Registered or eligible for registration.
Contact:
This Mental Health 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.
