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Social work lead - older peoples mental health

Paignton
Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust
€60,000 - €80,000 a year
Posted: 24 April
Offer description

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic, motivated, dynamic person who can demonstrate commitment to the provision of high-quality person-centred care.


To lead and manage a team of experienced, specialist mental health social care workers, delivering high quality, strength-based provisions, working with older people experiencing mental health difficulties and their families and carers. Maintaining and enhancing the quality of life and wellbeing of older people and their families and promoting independence, autonomy, and dignity.


If you are passionate about providing high quality individualised patient care, enthusiastic about supporting patients' rehabilitation and increasing their independence and quality of life we would like to hear from you.


Manage staff, resources, and relationships with key agencies to ensure timely and effective assessment, personalised support planning, and care management. Work in partnership with all agencies to ensure a high quality, strength-based provision is delivered to service users experiencing mental health problems, their families, and carers.


Lead on mental health expertise and social work knowledge to oversee staff case loads which will have a high level of complexity.


Ensure the most cost-effective and beneficial care packages are established, delivered, and monitored, and comply with all relevant statutory requirements and Trust policies, standards, and guidelines.


Ensure teams and individuals:

1. understand and apply legislation and national policy requirements,
2. understand and apply TSDNFT (and where appropriate partner agency) policies.


Work within agreed procedures.


Develop and maintain effective working relationships.


Meet required performance expectations.


Deliver a service to the public that meets required quality standards and optimises the opportunity for people to lead and manage their support.


A Baywide specialist service, The Older People's Mental Health Team (Adult Social Care) is a multi-disciplinary team co-located with Health services. A team with an excellent reputation for promoting strength-based, creative approaches to working with older people with complex functional and organic mental health difficulties.


Why work with us


For further details / informal visits contact:

Name: Andrea Collings
Job title: Community Services manager
Email address: andrea.collings1@nhs.net
Telephone number: 07821581464

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