Adult Social Worker MH #000A02F81

Job Description

Please be aware this is a Long Term Temporary post to start ASAP.

About the Role

Social work is at the heart of social and community innovations in mental health service in Trafford. An exciting opportunity has arisen, and we currently have social work vacancy within the South Community Mental Health Team in Trafford.

Within this social work role, the expectation will be that for the people you support lead fulfilling lives and reach their potential to live as independently as possible, that you work in a holistic approach, with the person and their social network, helping to strengthen and build sustainable families and social capital.

On a day-to-day basis you will work in a multi-disciplinary team and carry a caseload of people with severe mental health problems working within a Care Program Approach underpinned by the social model of disability, work within a strengths-based approach and deliver statutory duties as per the Care Act 2014 (and other applicable legislation such as the HRA 1998/ MHA 1983/ MCA 2005) and the mental health recovery model.

About you

We are looking to recruit Social Worker’s/ AMHP’s that can work with warmth, empathy, and genuineness when within a multi-disciplinary team and have a strong social work identity.

For this role you need to be a social worker that is driven and passion to make that difference and work within a strong human rights framework to drive social justice and equal opportunity for people with mental health problems.

You will need to be a collaborative person with excellent communication, listening and interpersonal skills who uses their professional curiosity and inquisitive enquiry at every contact to promote person centred outcomes and wellbeing.

You will need to have a good knowledge base around ethical and legal literacy, and are you committed to continually learning & improving the way you do things to ensure effective outcomes.

You will need to be able to value and respect others’ contributions, be able to professional challenge when applicable and work within a ‘solutions focused’ and ‘can do approach’ within a specialist service area. This is a key essential to improve outcomes for adults experiencing poor mental health and to support their families within a think family approach.

Underpinned by your social work values and ethics you will need to be able to demonstrate knowledge of enablement service which aim to prevent, reduce and delay the need for crisis interventions (where possible), and care and support systems, be able to support risk enablement and positive risk taking whilst mitigation of preventable harm to self and/ or other using your legal and statutory knowledge.

You will need to be able to take ownership of your actions and strive to getting things right first time, be a reflective social worker and then apply this learning if/when things do go wrong; you will be able to be creative in terms of strengths based practice and innovation to resolve issues and change what you do and how you do it to make a difference.

The following is essential criteria:

– Degree in Social Work

– SWE Registration

– Right to work within the UK

Please be aware this is a Long Term Temporary post to start ASAP.

You must have:

• A professional qualification in social work

• Social Work England registration.

• Post qualified experience.

• Enhanced DBS/Update service.

• References required for the last 5 years of employment.

Benefits of working with Semester.co.uk:

• Free on-going training opportunities upon registering as part of our commitment to you.

• Competitive Rates of pay

• In house payroll, providing weekly payments and support

• Enhanced DBS completed.

• Support and expert advice from an approachable, dedicated and friendly team

• An assigned dedicated & experienced consultant

• Various employment opportunities in your preferred geographical area

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