Social Worker, Adult Mental Health Team

Location Cambridge
Job type Permanent
Salary £38,258 - 40,958 per year
Consultant Zehnn Young
Call +44 7723 457338
Reference 221619

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Adult Social Worker within the Adult Mental Health Team to work Full Time for based in Cambridgeshire.

The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £40,958 per annum.

Main duties:

  • Provide professional leadership for complex case arrangements, in situations which involve, risk, complexity and safety of the service user and others.
  • Identify through assessment the needs and strengths of service users and/or family carers and source appropriate solutions and interventions.
  • Complete support planning with services users to ensure that outcomes identified at assessment are bet within budgetary constraints through the provision of support, equipment, adaptations and enabling programmes.
  • To provide more specialist social work practice skills and knowledge to make independent decisions and support situations in which risk, ambiguity or complexity is greatest.
  • Take a professional lead and oversee cases of individuals who lack capacity to agree to or plan their care, undertake proportionate assessment in accordance with current Adult Social Care legislation including MCA and best interest assessments.
  • To provide written and verbal reports, appropriate for courts and other legal purposes, which are concise, informative and based on complex evidence to support problem solving and resolutions.
  • To contribute to the development of integrated services and policy and to promote new ways of developing service user care, taking account of resource constrains and national initiatives.
  • To take a key role in promoting and developing service user empowerment, and recognise diversity and anti-discriminatory practice in all professional practice in the team.
  • To take responsibility for own professional development and record CPD Share knowledge and expertise with peers to support the development of a confident and skilled workforce.
  • Carry out duties in a timely and responsive manner, in line with Social Work England Standards, the Professional Capability Framework and CCC’s behaviours – working together, integrity, respect at work, excellence.

Requirements of this Social Worker role:

  • A professional Social Work qualification or equivalent.
  • Understanding of relevant legislation.
  • Registered or eligible for registration.
  • Have a good working knowledge of the relevant legislation.

Contact:
This Social Worker role 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.