Mental Health Social Worker - Nottinghamshire - Sanctuary Personal

Sanctuary Personnel Ltd; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency is seeking a Mental Health Social Worker for a full-time position in Newark-on-Trent. The role involves educating staff on safeguarding practices, managing social work staff, and conducting patient assessments. Candidates must have a Social Work qualification and be eligible for registration with the relevant governing body. This position offers a salary of up to £37,863 per annum.

Qualifications

• Registered or eligible for registration with Social Care England.
• Understanding of relevant legislation including MP, MHRT, CPA processes.
• Driver’s License (full UK).

Responsibilities

• Educate hospital staff on safeguarding matters.
• Facilitate access to advocacy services.
• Manage and support social work staff.
• Conduct comprehensive patient assessments.

Skills

Excellent communication

Interpersonal skills

Strong assessment abilities

Care planning

Education

Social Work Qualification or equivalent

Job description

Overview

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency, has a new permanent position available for a Mental Health Social Worker to work full time based in The Farndon Unit, Newark-on-Trent for Elysium Healthcare. The salary for this permanent Mental Health Social Worker job is up to £37,863 per annum.

Responsibilities

• Educating Hospital staff about relevant safeguarding matters.
• Facilitating access to welfare rights, housing, advocacy services and associated support services participate in 1:1 supervision.
• Reporting to safeguarding agencies and regulatory bodies.
• Attendance at Safeguarding meetings in managers absence.
• Maintain role will be within the Acute Service.
• To manage and support all social work staff including social work students on placements.
• Undertake a comprehensive assessment of patient’s social care needs.
• Have full responsibility for managing a caseload.
• To maintain accurate and up to date records of their social work inputs to the care plan including Section 117 care planning and transfer summaries, which reflect the patient’s views.

Requirements

• A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Registered or eligible for registration.
• This post requires registration with the relevant health professional council/governing body (Social Care England).
• Sound knowledge of relevant legislation.
• Sound knowledge of the process of MP, MHRT, CPA and associated reports.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong assessment and care planning abilities.
• Willingness to undertake Level 4 Safeguarding Train the Trainer qualification and deliver Level 3 Safeguarding training to new inductees.
• Driver’s License (full UK).

Contact

This Mental Health 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.

Notes

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.

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