Description
The job itself
An exciting opportunity to join one of East Riding's Community Mental Health Teams as a Social Worker has arisen, due to the post holder being on maternity leave. Haltemprice Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) is a multidisciplinary team formed by staff from both East Riding Council and Humber Teaching Foundation Trust.
This post is a social work role forming part of our integrated partnership arrangements with Humber Foundation Trust, providing mental health services in East Riding of Yorkshire. The Haltemprice Adult CMHT is a joint Local Authority and NHS team which covers a wide geographical area, providing secondary mental health services to the people living in the Haltemprice area. As a social worker in this team, you would be part of the social care team, ensuring that the Local Authority meets their statutary duties and people get a service from Adult Social Care.
The posts provide appropriate Social Work advice and support in a multi-disciplinary team focusing on providing an effective range of interventions for an identified group of adults needing mental health support. The post holder would be responsible for promoting independence and designing appropriate personalised support, to build community resilience.
The post provides an effective range of specified social work interventions for adults, their families and carers. The post looks to build and support links to wider adult social care services, and NHS services to ensure support provided is holistic and person centred. This will include supporting people to remain well and independent and designing appropriate personalized support planning, aimed at intervention to maximize recovery and independence. The role will also ensure that the statutory duty of the Local Authority to prevent, reduce, and delay the development of needs for care and support by taking the necessary steps. The role will also include completing care and support assessments, support planning, and completing section 42 safeguarding enquiries under The Care Act. It will also include implementing any commissioned care as needed.
The post will ensure that all adult legislative requirements are adhered to and will provide the legislative advice to other professionals in the Multi Disciplinary team, and in other services.