Social Workers

Wakefield Council; Wakefield; Vor Ort; GBP 38.000 - 46.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Wakefield Council is seeking an experienced Social Worker to join our specialist Forensic Social Work Team within a secure mental health inpatient service. You will play a key role in supporting service users, their families and carers throughout their care pathway.

You will collaborate with multidisciplinary clinical teams and partner agencies to deliver high-quality, person-centred interventions that promote recovery, social inclusion and safe community reintegration.

Qualifikationen

• Experience in forensic mental health settings.
• AMHP qualified or eligible for AMHP status.
• Senior social worker level readiness for complex caseloads.

Aufgaben

• Deliver high-quality forensic social work interventions and psychosocial support.
• Support service users and families throughout the care pathway.
• Coordinate and contribute to discharge planning from admission to community transition.
• Collaborate with health colleagues, local authorities, criminal justice agencies and community services.
• Contribute to multidisciplinary meetings, care planning reviews, risk management and case formulations.
• Promote service user rights, safeguarding, recovery and social inclusion.
• Support statutory social work functions and ensure compliance with policies and legislation.

Kenntnisse

Forensic social work

Discharge planning

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Risk assessment

Safeguarding

Social inclusion

Jobbeschreibung

This temporary position is open to both internal and external applicants. Internal Wakefield Council employees interested in applying on a secondment basis should discuss this with their line manager and obtain approval before applying.

Key Roles

As a member of a specialist forensic social work team, you will play a key role in supporting service users, their families and carers throughout their care pathway.

You will work collaboratively within multidisciplinary clinical teams and alongside a wide range of partner agencies to deliver high-quality, person-centred interventions that promote recovery, social inclusion and safe community reintegration.

Key responsibilities include:

• Delivering high-quality forensic social work interventions and psychosocial support.
• Supporting service users and their families throughout their care pathway.
• Coordinating and contributing to discharge planning from admission through to community transition.
• Working collaboratively with health colleagues, local authorities, criminal justice agencies and community services.
• Contributing to multidisciplinary meetings, care planning reviews, risk management processes and case formulations.
• Promoting service user rights, safeguarding, recovery and social inclusion.
• Supporting statutory social work functions and ensuring compliance with relevant legislation and policy.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated Social Worker to join our specialist Forensic Social Work Team within a secure mental health inpatient service. We welcome applications from Senior Social Workers and Approved Mental Health Professionals (AMHPs) who are passionate about improving outcomes for people receiving forensic mental health care., We are seeking a confident and skilled practitioner who can work effectively within a complex and challenging forensic mental health environment.