Requirements:

  • Social Work England Registered
  • Extensive Mental Health Social Work Experience
  • Completing Mental Health Capacity Acts
  • Enhanced DBS

NonStop’s client is a local authority based near Richmond is seeking a Social Worker to join the Mental Health Social Care teams. The team is currently working from home due to COVID-19 pandemic and restrictions.

The teams consist of enthusiastic Social Workers and Social Care Assessors with a focus to provide a holistic, personalised, strength-based service to residents over the age of 18 who have a primary mental health diagnosis or substance misuse issues.

Responsibilities:

  • Using strength-based approach in promoting service user choice and empowerment through promoting independence
  • Facilitate and enable supervisees to make responsive communication with partners, especially the Health Trust.
  • Ensure accurate electronic recording for self and supervisees (good report writing skills are very important).
  • Undertake statutory interventions, act as SAM (Safeguarding adult manager) where service users are deemed to be at risk
  • Authorising Reviews/ assessments, reassessments and arranging necessary funding to meet the requirements of individual support plans within available resources.
  • Manage the team’s duty team on a rota basis and oversee all incoming referrals and safeguarding concerns.
  • Promote equality, diversity, and inclusion, maintaining an awareness of the equality and diversity protocol/policy

For further information on the role, please send your CV in a Microsoft Word format to Jess on j.samba@nonstopcare.com or give me a ring on 0207 940 2100 Ext 7153.