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Social Worker Mental Health Practitioner
Job Type
Permanent
Region
West Midlands
Salary
Location
£35,392 - £42,618
Posted Date
28 March 2024
Nottinghamshire
Closing Date
11 April 2024
Are you a highly motivated, experienced Social Worker, looking for a new challenge? If so Adult Mental Health Services are looking for someone who possess confidence, enthusiasm, initiative and a positive approach to teamwork but most importantly have a genuine passion for patient care.
AMH have are looking for 2 Social Worker Mental Health Practitioners. The roles will be based within the City Central Mental Health Team at Highbury and the City North Mental Health Team at Marlow House .
We’re investing heavily in our staff, facilities and patient care. As we move into this new chapter, we need a strong, motivated and compassionate workforce to reflect our core values of Honesty, Compassion, Trust, Respect and Teamwork. There has never been a better time to join our growing team.
We have exciting opportunities across different specialities and services, with an emphasis on career development and progression. We want to help our staff reach their full potential, and are committed to providing the support, skills and development needed to succeed.
This post is eligible for a Golden Hello payment of £2,750 for new starters who are external to the Trust. This is payable in 3 instalments over a 2 year period. This payment is only eligible to new starters who do not already hold a contract of employment with the Trust. This post also includes paid enhancements for unsocial hours working during night, weekends and bank holidays.
Main duties of the job
To provide a defined level of assessment and access to Social Work interventions for a diverse patient group and their families under the Care Programme Approach, who present with significant mental health problems/disorders
To provide realistic, timely and occasionally intensive Social Work interventions to patients within a community setting.
To demonstrate active clinical and managerial leadership skills within the team, providing education and supervision to junior staff members and other professionals
Working for our organisation
Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.
As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire. We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.
Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.
We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network. Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions. We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.
If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you!
#TeamNottsHC
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide a defined level of assessment and access to Social Work interventions for a diverse
patient group and their families under the Care Programme Approach, who present with significant
mental health problems/disorders
To provide realistic, timely and occasionally intensive Social Work interventions to patients within a
community setting.
To demonstrate active clinical and managerial leadership skills within the team, providing education
and supervision to junior staff members and other professionals
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