Social Worker - Mental Health

Liquid Personnel is recruiting an Adult’s Social Worker to join its client’s Mental Health team, based in Manchester

What will your responsibilities be?

• Manage a caseload of adults experiencing a range of complex and enduring mental health difficulties, providing person-centred and strengths-based social work interventions.
• Complete comprehensive assessments of social care, mental health, safeguarding, risk and support needs.
• Develop, implement and review personalised care and support plans in partnership with service users, carers and the wider multidisciplinary team (MDT).
• Undertake Care Act assessments and reviews, including consideration of eligibility, wellbeing, prevention and least restrictive support options.
• Contribute to risk assessments and risk management plans, responding appropriately to changes in presentation, safeguarding concerns and crisis situations.
• Work collaboratively with psychiatrists, nurses, occupational therapists, psychologists, support workers and other professionals to provide coordinated care.
• Support service users to develop and maintain independence, social inclusion, meaningful activity, housing stability and community connections.
• Provide advice, information and advocacy around housing, benefits, employment, finances, social care and other wider determinants of wellbeing.
• Work proactively with families, carers and relevant professionals, ensuring their views and needs are appropriately considered.
• Safeguard adults at risk and take appropriate action in line with local safeguarding procedures and statutory responsibilities.
• Support service users through transitions between services, including hospital discharge, community support and onward referrals.
• Maintain accurate, timely and high-quality case records in accordance with professional, organisational and legal requirements.
• Participate in MDT meetings, clinical reviews, care programme processes and other relevant meetings.
• Work within relevant legislation, policies and professional standards, including the Care Act, Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act and safeguarding frameworks.
• Promote service-user choice, autonomy, recovery, equality, diversity and human rights in all aspects of practice.
• Build effective therapeutic and professional relationships, using appropriate communication and social work skills to engage people who may be reluctant or difficult to engage with services.
• Identify and respond to changes in need, escalating concerns and accessing additional support where appropriate.
• Work with partner agencies and community organisations to promote integrated, preventative and recovery-focused support.
• Participate in supervision, reflective practice, training and continuous professional development.
• Contribute to service development, quality improvement and the ongoing development of effective social work practice within the CMHT.

Benefits

• Joining the service during an exciting period of transition from the NHS to Council
• Competitive hourly rate
• Council services rated "good" by CQC

Qualifications and Experience

To be successful in this role you must have;

• Social Work England registration
• Eligible to work in the UK
• Hold a full UK driving licence
• Post-qualified experience
• Degree level or equivalent in Social Work

Why Liquid Personnel?

• Free DBS and compliance service
• Twice weekly payroll and ‘Faster Pay’ service, getting you paid more quickly
• Access to exclusive roles that aren’t available from other agencies
• Free access to Liquid’s exclusive social work training and CPD portal
• Your own dedicated consultant with extensive social work knowledge
• Access to a wide selection of social work positions across the UK
• “Refer a Friend” bonus – get £500 for each social worker you refer who we successfully place*
• “Find your own job” bonus – get £250 for bringing your own position to us *

Liquid Personnel is an equal opportunities employer. Liquid Personnel Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. * Terms and conditions apply to our bonus schemes.

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 by contacting our team. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.

We are unable to support or accept applications from candidates who are residents within the Red or Amber list of the Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England, based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) Workforce Support and Safeguard List.

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