ASW, Mental Health

Adult Social Worker - Mental Health
£28.40 in line with MOU
West Midlands
37 hours p/w

About the role:
• To provide professional social work, working alongside agencies, providers, health
colleagues to assess and provide appropriate interventions.
• To provide a high quality and effective social work service that involves engaging
with adults, carers, families, groups and communities in a timely manner and within
statutory guidelines.
• To assess need, plan and deliver focused intervention to safeguard adults with
additional needs and promote positive wellbeing.
• To undertake varied and complex work, across early intervention and statutory
levels.
• To work collaboratively with colleagues within the social work teams and alongside
agencies, providers, health, colleagues in order to promote the best outcomes for
Adults with care and support needs.
• The job involves direct contact and working with individuals, carers, families, groups
and communities, health, police, voluntary partners, commissioners, service
providers
• The job involves the worker identifying suitable care and support packages that
provide value for money. There is accountability for interventions that required care
and support expenditure through the department or independently
• The job involves direct responsibility for handling and processing sensitive
information, where care, accuracy, confidentiality and security are important.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Corporate and Professional Responsibility
• Responsibility for own professional practice, as defined within corporate guidelines and
• priorities; and social work professional standards. Take responsibility to ensure the practice
• and learning of other staff where appropriate.
• To ensure that Customer Outcomes are achieved
• Take responsibility for own practice. Apply the principles of outcome led conversations /
• assessment and support planning and micro commissioning. Take responsibility in this area
• to ensure the practice of other staff, where appropriate. Quality assuring and authorising
• own outcome led conversations/assessments within an agreed budgetary envelope. Ensure
• conversations/assessments are focused on supporting independence, demonstrating
• optimum and proportionate use of available resources across the community,
• Safeguarding
• Ensure that children/adults with care and support needs are safeguarded by appropriately
• identifying and reporting potential abuse. Ensure immediate protection of children/ adults
• with care and support needs. Responsible for conducting safeguarding enquiries in
• accordance with local safeguarding policy and practice procedures.
• Performance/Supervision
• Active participation in the supervision process to improve performance and enhance
• confidence in own social work practice. Provide professional supervision and support to
• others when/ where appropriate.
• Staff Development/Coaching
• To actively participate and where necessary take responsibility for receiving and providing
• staff development opportunities to apply critical reflection and analysis to inform decision
• making. To be able to supervise others for example students and newly qualified and
• unqualified health and social care practitioners and impart best practice skills and
• knowledge.
• Resource Use
• To take responsibility for the identification of suitable resources to meet the assessed
• needs of individuals and carers informed by evidence based practice.
• Administration/Meetings
• To take responsibility for working in accordance with systems and quality standards for
• communication and administration in accordance with council and legal duties and
• responsibilities.
• Specialist Skills and Knowledge
• To contribute to identifying, developing and evaluating specialist skills and knowledge in
• own and others practice.
• Joint Working
• To demonstrate the ability, skills, knowledge to engage and carry out competent Care Act
• conversations with individuals, families, groups and communities and carers that identifies
• relevant partners who need to be involved in any social work intervention

Risk Assessment & Management
To work in accordance with agreed risk assessment and management approaches to
safeguard the individual, families, groups and communities in all social work interventions.
Knowledge
• To develop knowledge in one or more specialist areas of your practice. Expand your
knowledge to inform the connections between this and other settings or areas of
practice
• To demonstrate knowledge and application of appropriate legal and policy
frameworks and guidance that informs and mandate social work practice. Apply legal
reasoning, use professional legal expertise and advice appropriately, recognising
where scope for professional judgement exists
• To demonstrate and apply to practice a working knowledge of human growth and
development throughout the life course
• To recognise the short and long term impact of psychological, socio-economic,
environmental and physiological factors on people’s lives, taking into account age
and development, and how this informs practice
• To recognise how systematic approaches can be used to understand the person-inthe-environment and inform your practice
• To acknowledge the centrality of relationships for people and the key concepts of
attachment, separation, loss, change and resilience
• To understand forms of harm and their impact on people, and the implications for
practice, drawing on concepts of strength, resilience, vulnerability, risk and
resistance, and apply to practice
Skills
• To communicate skillfully and confidently in complex or high risk situations that
models and help others to develop communication skills
• To sustain and model engagement with people in fluctuating circumstances and
capacities including where there is hostility and risk
• To determine people’s needs and manage the associated risks
• To liaise with other agencies on operational issues and deliver service in partnership
that ensures quality and optimum and effective provision of services
• To gather information quickly and effectively so as to inform judgement for
interventions including crises, and in response to challenge, or in the absence of
complete information
• To communicate effectively in highly charged, complex or challenging circumstances
to a wide range of audiences for different purposes and at different levels.
• To use assessment procedures discerningly so as to inform judgement

Abilities
• To demonstrate, maintain and expand a range of frameworks for assessment and
intervention
• To actively support and initiate community groups and networks, including
professional ones
• To contribute to the development of the organisation’s information strategy and
systems
• To act as a role mode and help others with appropriate information sharing
• To act as a role model and help others to manage changing circumstances
• To recognise and appropriately manage the authority inherent in your position

 
What you need:

• A degree in Social Work or equivalent
• Registered with Social Work England
• Completed relevant post-qualifying training
• Enhanced DBS check
• Excellent communication and written skills

 
 
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