Social Worker

NHS Jobs; Rochford; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Jobs in Rochford invites experienced mental health professionals to join the Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Service. The role focuses on delivering non-judgmental, client-centered care within the Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust framework.

You will work closely with clients and families, maintain confidential information, and participate in on-call arrangements, case conferences, and collaborative risk management to ensure safe and effective community care.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication and inter-agency liaison skills.
• Ability to assess risk and monitor mental state.
• Experience in home treatment or crisis services is desirable.

Responsibilities

• To be aware of values, beliefs and attitudes to provide non-judgmental, objective client care.
• Establish therapeutic relationships with clients and their families.
• Ensure effective and confidential communication between health and social care agencies; participate in case conferences and reviews.
• Be aware of clinical risk management and monitor clients’ mental state to evaluate risk to self or others.
• Identify and manage high-risk clients with behavioural problems in the community, organising joint visits if necessary.
• Advise managers on breaches of professional conduct as required by regulatory codes.
• Liaise with line managers to implement Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust policies and procedures.
• Work flexibly across the Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Service within the Trust.
• Take on clinical work commensurate with experience in liaison with supervisors and senior staff.
• Contribute to service quality improvement and arrange cover for Home Treatment and Crisis Services as needed.
• Participate in on-call arrangements for Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Service.

Skills

Communication

Risk assessment

Interpersonal skills

Confidentiality

Job description

1. 4. To be aware of ones own values, beliefs and attitudes when assessing clients to ensure that a non-judgmental and objective overview of the clients needs are met at all times.
2. 5. Need to establish a therapeutic relationship with individual clients and their families.
3. 6. Ensure effective and confidential communication between health and social care agencies on significant data governing client care and treatment by: Participating in informal or formal case conferences and discussions. Maintaining a secure system of record keeping and information exchange. Establishing regular written reviews in progress.
4. 7. To be fully aware of the importance of effective risk management, the undertaking of clinical risk assessment and the on-going monitoring of the clients mental state to evaluate risk either to themselves or towards others.
5. 8. To ensure those clients in the community with behavioural problems e.g. violent or potentially violent clients are identified in caseload and that caution and care is taken when visiting such clients, if necessary organising joint visits.
6. 9. To develop close links with relatives/carers and ensure that effective communication takes place especially when clients are admitted to hospital or preparing to be discharged and that all appropriate agencies are informed so that follow-up care can take place.
7. 10. To advise Line Manager and Professional Social Work Supervisor and/or Nurse Advisor on all breaches of Nursing/Social Work/Occupational Therapy professional conduct as required by the NMCs/HCPC Code of Professional Conduct.
8. 11. To liaise with Line Manager to ensure that all Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Policies and Procedures are communicated, implemented and developed within the area.
9. 12. To work flexibly across the whole spectrum of Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Service within Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
10. 13. To take on clinical work commensurate with experience/skills, in liaison with their supervisor and other senior staff within the team.
11. 14. To be responsible for working with your colleagues in seeking to improve the quality of services provided to our clients/patients. This will include providing cover arrangements for Home Treatment and Crisis Services at needs of the service within Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
12. 15. To participate in the on call arrangements for the Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Service.