Social Worker

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Job overview

An opportunity has risen for a Qualified Experienced Social Worker with a live unrestricted Social Work England registration to join our Community Team working with adults experiencing mental health issues or crisis, You will need to:

- Have continuous responsibility for coordinating the care of an identified group of allocated service users .
- Deliver a range of evidence-based interventions which will promote recovery, social inclusion, and normalisation for this group of service users, who suffer from severe, enduring mental health problems and cognitive impairment conditions.
- Work in partnership with the MDT, Home Treatment Team, and acute Inpatients Services to provide support and treatment to service users within crisis to facilitate the safe management of their needs within a community setting.

We are a supportive team, and the post holder would have support from the Service Manager, Clinical Leads, and other multi-discipline staff.

If successful you will receive the required training and support needed to fulfil your duties, as well as regular supervision and appraisal.

***Please note, the contract for this position will provided by the London Borough of Havering***

Main duties of the job

The main responsibilities of the post:

- Act as a Case manager to a defined caseload of service users.
- Participate on the local Borough AMHP rota system.
- Provide care within the Recovery Model of practice maintaining service users within their own environment in the community.
- Deliver high quality care and provide solutions to service users with severe and enduring mental health problems.
- Supervising junior colleagues, newly qualified staff, and students.
- Travelling within the local area to visit allocated service users.
- Carry out high quality assessments, using person-centred, community focused, and multi-agency interventions to bring about positive change through developing effective relationships and to secure the best outcomes for service users and carers.

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate that they can work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team using evidence-based approaches in the delivery of interventions. The candidate will also have the resilience and positivity to work with a challenging but also very rewarding client group This includes care coordinating a caseload of service users.