Salary: £37,336 to £44,428 depending on experience
Working Pattern: Full time
Contract Length: Permanent
Location: Bognor Regis
In this challenging, but rewarding role, you will be required to act as allocated social worker responsible for delivering a statutory social work service to those people whoaccess or need specialist mental health services, to include assessment, planning, implementing and review. This includes being responsible for leading on specialist areas of service delivery, ensuring that key developments are communicated to colleagues and that business change is successfully implemented.
You will work as part of a geographically based specialist mental health social work team, providing a service to people who are aged 65 years andover, with occasional contact with people under the age of 65 years where they have a diagnosis of dementia.
You will manage a caseload, collaborating with people and family or friend carers, undertake strengths-based assessments and reviews, identifyingeligible needs and personalised outcomes. You will be working within a supportive environment to apply your social work skills to develop and implement support plans aimed at improving wellbeing and delivering outcomes, including utilising community assets, and ensuring that eligible needs are met.
There will be some requirement for you to work flexibly in order to support customers, carers and families, sometimes out of normal working hours. You will also need to be able to travel independently throughout the county, including to areas that may not be easily accessible by public transport. There is a regular and intrinsic requirement to communicate in English with members of the public.
Please refer to the attached job description for Key Skill information and Qualification / Experience requirements for this role.
Further Information
The reference number for this role is CAFHE05435.
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We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. This post is subject to Social Work England registration, an enhanced DBS check, 5 years referencing and a health check.
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