Social Worker - Adults - Mental Health Team (Social and Healthcare Qualified)

TN United Kingdom; Stoke-on-Trent; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated Social Worker to join their Adults Mental Health Team in Stoke-on-Trent. This role involves applying professional ethics and critical thinking to support diverse populations. The ideal candidate will demonstrate professionalism and contribute to policy development while ensuring the highest social work standards. Join a team that values health, safety, and wellbeing, and make a significant impact in the community by promoting best practices and providing expert advice. If you are passionate about social work and ready to take on new challenges, this opportunity is for you.

Qualifications

• Confident application of professional ethics and legal frameworks.
• Ability to promote diversity and model best practices.

Responsibilities

• Model social work role and promote decision-making within the organization.
• Establish networks for advice and support in social work practice.

Skills

Critical thinking

Professional ethics

Social work standards

Diversity and identity promotion

Reflective practice

Education

Social Work Degree

Professional Social Work Qualification

Job description

Social Worker - Adults - Mental Health Team (Social and Healthcare Qualified), Stoke-on-Trent

Client: mbi Medical Ltd

Location: Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom

Job Category: Other

EU work permit required: Yes

Job Reference: 2ae13835b45f

Job Views: 11

Posted: 29.04.2025

Expiry Date: 13.06.2025

Job Description:

• Demonstrate confident and critical application of professional ethics to decision-making, using a legal and human rights framework, and support others to do so.
• Model the social work role, promote social work and decision-making within and outside the organisation.
• Use critical reflective skills in practice and supervision settings to enhance your own practice.
• Promote positive approaches to diversity and identity in your area of responsibility, providing guidance and challenge as required.
• Model and contribute to the development of best practice in use of power and authority within your sphere of influence. Provide challenge in situations where power is used inappropriately.
• Model best practice, provide or seek out expert professional social work/legal advice, applying human and civil rights in complex situations where there are competing issues. Contribute to policy and practice developments to support service improvement.
• Model and demonstrate professionalism, ensuring professional social work standards are maintained throughout your area of responsibility. Contribute to a work environment which promotes health, safety, and wellbeing of self and others.
• Establish a network of internal and external colleagues from whom to seek advice and support.
• Be able to meet the requirements of the professional regulator.
• Utilise the full range of council processes, policies, and procedures that relate to the effective, safe, and accountable operation of the business.
• Maintain awareness of own professional limitations, knowledge gaps, and conflicts of interest, actively seeking to address issues for self and others; escalate issues and concerns to the relevant manager where action is required beyond the remit/level of the Social Worker role.