Community Mental Health Social Worker - Southend-on-Sea - Sanctuary Personal

Sanctuary Personnel Ltd; Southend-on-Sea; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking an Adult Social Worker for a permanent position in Southend-on-Sea. The role involves working with individuals to promote independence, managing a diverse caseload, and collaborating with health and social care professionals. Ideal candidates will have a professional social work qualification and good knowledge of relevant legislation. Competitive salary up to £43,693 per annum.

Qualifications

• Registered or eligible for registration.
• Good working knowledge of the relevant legislation.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with individuals and their carers.
• Manage a complex and diverse caseload.
• Promote anti-discriminatory practice.
• Communicate effectively using high quality written and verbal skills.
• Maintain effective professional relationships.

Education

Professional Social Work qualification or equivalent

Job description

Overview

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

The salary for this Social Worker job is up to £43,693 per annum.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with individuals and their carers to help them understand their strengths, assets, and desired outcomes, empowering them to identify and build solutions that enable them to lead safe, health, and fulfilling lives.
• Manage a complex and diverse caseload while operating at all times within the Professional Capabilities Framework, carrying out strengths-based statutory assessments and reviews, specialist mental capacity assessments, and safeguarding investigations.
• Be responsible for prioritising your workload, using supervision proactively to effectively manage competing demands and to support your ability to work flexibly across the service in response to fluctuating need.
• Promote anti-discriminatory practice, social work values and ethics, and demonstrate a commitment to positive risk assessment and evidence-based decision making that seeks to reduce boundaries around risk averse practice and creates greater independence for individuals, enabling them to achieve their desired outcomes.
• Communicate effectively using high quality written and verbal skills, including prioritising the recording of accurate and timely computerised records and written reports, reporting concerns to managers and external stakeholders as appropriate.
• Be part of a team that embraces the process of change, participating in effective and professionally mature team working, utilising your creativity, and stepping up to offer your views and opinions.
• Maintain effective professional relationships and collaborate efficiently with health and social care colleagues and wider statutory, private and voluntary partners and agencies to engage in innovative practice.
• Provide professional support and positive supervision to student/newly qualified social workers and unqualified staff as required within your role.
• Be willing to use critical thinking and to be a co-creator of change within the communities you serve, supporting the transformation of practice towards strengths-based empowerment and asset-based community development that reduces the impact on isolation, loneliness, marginalisation, and disconnection for Southend residents.

Requirements

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

Contact

This Social Worker job 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.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

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

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.