Specialist Mental Health Personal Advisor (Social Worker) - Wandsworth - Sanctuary Personal

Sanctuary Personnel Ltd; London; On-site; GBP 49,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency is seeking a Specialist Mental Health Personal Advisor (Social Worker) for a full-time role in London. Responsibilities include supporting mental health and well-being of Care Experienced young people through various assessments and interventions. Candidates must have a professional Social Work qualification and an understanding of relevant legislation. The salary ranges up to £49,503 per annum.

Qualifications

• A professional Social Work qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Registered or eligible for registration.

Responsibilities

• Undertake Pathway Planning, assessments, tasks, and interventions.
• Act as a lead Practitioner for Mental Health within the team.
• Develop and review a multi-agency Pathway Plan with young people.

Skills

Understanding of relevant legislation

Collaboration with health and social care practitioners

Clinical risk assessing

Evidence-based practice

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 a Specialist Mental Health Personal Advisor (Social Worker) to work full time based in Richmond & Wandsworth.

The salary for this permanent Specialist Mental Health Personal Advisor (Social Worker) job is up to £49,503 per annum.

Responsibilities

• You will work alongside any other involved professional, undertaking a range of Pathway Planning, assessments, tasks and interventions to strengthen and support the Mental Health and Wellbeing of Care Experienced young people within the Borough.
• Alongside the Transitions Social Worker and the Therapeutic service within the team, you will act as a lead Practitioner within the team for Mental Health, disseminating good practice, engaging in Team Meetings to present colleagues with information and advice and acting as a Mental Health practice reference point for PA colleagues.
• Bring together, develop and regularly review a multi-agency Pathway Plan around and with the young person and proactively work with the young person to achieve their targets.
• Establish and develop collaborative working with allied health and social care practitioners from adults’ services as well as partners in Housing, DWP and Community organisations.
• Develop a good understanding of evidence-based practice and integrate models of best practice into the day-to-day service delivery.
• Participate positively in professional supervision and annual appraisal (PrP) review, taking personal responsibility for the quality of practice.
• Participate in clinical supervision and clinical risk assessing, and liaising with mental health services across different boroughs/areas.
• Build professional credibility within the multi-professional partnership by achieving practice standards and meeting performance targets consistently, providing accredited practice teaching as required.
• Actively contribute to team working, supporting, colleagues, covering for colleagues in their absence and taking part in team meetings and development events.
• Understand and integrate into practice the key policies of the Council in relation to social care with children and families, especially multi-disciplinary working, integration and whole family approaches.
• Consider and put forward ideas for improving the efficiency and the effectiveness of council services to children and families.
• The profile is not intended to be an exhaustive list of duties the post holder will carry out. Other reasonable duties commensurate with the level of the post, including supporting emergency and priority situations, will form part of the role.

Requirements

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

Contact

This Specialist Mental Health Personal Advisor (Social Worker) job is advertised by Alex Moon; 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.

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: 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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