BaNES Older Adult Community Mental Health Team Senior Practitioner
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BaNES Older Adult Community Mental Health Team Senior Practitioner
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At Bath & North East Somerset Council we have one overriding purpose to improve people’s lives.
This post attracts a welcome payment of 5% of the starting salary for the grade to enable individuals to join our permanent workforce. This is payable upon successful completion of your probationary period and is subject to eligibility criteria.
Do you want to join an innovative and enthusiastic integrated mental health team?
Do you want to join a team that is committed to providing high quality ?
services to support older adults experiencing both complex mental health needs, and adults living with dementia?
Do you want to work in a team that practices from a person centred and strengths-based approach?
Are you passionate about the role and value that social work and social care has in an integrated mental health team, and wanting to work in a role where your leadership skills, and passion to develop the social work role are utilised?
About The Team
If you do, an opportunity has arisen to become a Senior Social Work Practitioner working within the recently transformed Older Adult Community Mental Health Team. Alongside transformation relating to the implementation of the Community Mental Health Framework, Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES) has created a specialist Mental Health Pathway for Older Adults experiencing mental ill health, and those experiencing complex neurodegenerative disorders, where the impact upon the well-being and ability to live safely independently is significant. The B&NES Older Adult Community Mental Health Team is a dynamic team, working with people with complex needs and presentations. There is a strong multi-disciplinary working environment with positive collaborative relationships. You would be working alongside Senior Practitioners employed by the Mental Health NHS Trust to achieve the best outcomes for people with mental health needs and complex dementia presentations in the area.
About The Role
You will lead and foster a commitment to the recovery and strengths-based model of support and underpinned by a rights-based approach. One of the values of the team is to deliver flexible and creative support drawing on solution focussed interventions, involving the community and the third sector and thus ensuring that an individual develops the skills they need as they go forward with their recovery, and ensuring that individuals are supported to maintain independence and their well being is supported in the community and in placement.
Both the team and B&NES Council are committed to providing continued professional development through supervision, opportunities to develop skills and gain experience, and training opportunities.
The post is based in Bath and North East Somerset, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is a beautiful city, surrounded by amazing countryside locations, and offering an impressive variety of arts, culture and sports. Easily commutable from surrounding areas, including rail links to Bristol and beyond, there is staff parking available as well as access to pool cars, charge points for electric cares, and lock up facilities for those cycling to work.
If you are interested in this post and require more details after reading the job description or just to chat through the role and what’s involved, please contact Kimberley Bennett, AWP Team Manager on 01225 731631 or Kimberley.Bennett@nhs.net
Interview date: TBC
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* Please note, BANES Council operates a policy of prior consideration for roles for any individual on the Council’s at-risk register (redeployee). This means should a redeployee express an interest in this role, providing they meet the essential criteria for the role they will be considered ahead of external applicants.
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Please note that this role is subject to an Enhanced/Basic DBS Check.
Safeguarding Statement: The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable groups and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of this commitment anyone working in a post with children or vulnerable groups will be expected to undertake an Enhanced DBS check with/without barred list checks.
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