Overview
Join Our Community Team! You may be a newly qualified Social Worker seeking your first position in mental health or a Social Worker with some experience looking to enhance your knowledge and skill in community mental health work.
We have exciting opportunities to deliver high quality community mental health care in Ware, Hertford and surrounding villages.
Responsibilities
* Hold a caseload and act as care coordinator for individuals with complex mental health and social care needs.
* Provide assessment and specific interventions to meet the needs of service users, their carers and families.
* Develop care planning and care coordination, including care programme approach, within a framework of recovery that embraces each individual’s right to choice and control.
* Ensure carers are effectively assessed and supported.
* Work as a member of a multi-disciplinary team providing a high‑quality social care service to adults of all ages experiencing or recovering from personality, substance abuse and mental health difficulties and their carers.
* Exercise flexibility, take initiative and maintain a positive, professional and calm approach.
Qualifications & Experience
* Newly qualified Social Worker or Social Worker with some experience.
* Demonstrated ability to work well within a team, prioritise and manage own workload, and display initiative.
* Good understanding of Care Programme Approach, Care Management and Safeguarding.
* Understanding of issues that people with mental health needs may experience.
* The organization will support completion of the ASYE programme for newly qualified workers.
Working Hours & Location
Location: Cheshunt, Hertfordshire (serving East & South East Hertfordshire). Service operates Monday–Friday, 9am–5pm.
Contact
For further details or informal visits, contact: Name: Kate Drew
Job title: Service Line Lead
Email address: kate.drew4@nhs.net
Telephone number: 07977 607 426
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