Job Overview
We are seeking an experienced and skilled social worker to join our multi-disciplinary team. This senior role provides specialist social work leadership, case management and professional expertise within a complex clinical and safeguarding environment.
The post holder will lead on consultancy issues relating to the complex social care needs of forensic clients of the CFLDS, providing highly skilled advice and guidance to staff both for the Specialist Support Team and in the wider social care community within the requirements of legislation.
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible Working
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Contact
* Name: Matt Edgar
* Job title: Operational Team Manager
* Email address: matthew.edgar@merseycare.nhs.uk
* Telephone number: 01772 377960
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