Mental Health Social Worker
WorkwithYork are working with our client to find a Mental Health Social Worker for their Adult Services Mental Health Team, based close to York City Centre.
This is a full-time role, 37 hours per week from Monday to Friday. It’s to start ASAP and it is a 6 month assignment on a hybrid working basis, with 2 days in the office.
Competitive rate of weekly pay, holiday pay and pension with online timesheets.
Core responsibilities, tasks and duties.
Cover team duty
Manage complex cases and provide professional advice and support, including emotional support, crisis intervention, conflict resolution, mediation, negotiation and advocacy.Lead and coordinate multi-disciplinary assessments.
Manage an individual caseload of customers, all of whom will have either moderate or severe mental illness, and whose needs will be complex.
Deliver Care Act assessments and ICB reviews.
Community and discharge work
Essential skills and experience for this role
IT skills, preferably experienced with Mosaic.A relevant Social Work qualification (BA/MA Social Work/DipSW or equivalent).
Be eligible to work within the UK.
A minimum of 2 years recent Social Work experience, within an Adult Social Work team.
An Enhanced Adult DBS
Reasons to register with WorkwithYork.
Work in a supportive and specialist teamCentral York location (close to park and ride and station)
Competitive rates of pay, PAYE, holiday pay and pension.
Please call Kathryn James on 01904 566066 for more information and to apply, please email an uptodate CV, including contact details of two referees, to applications@workwithyork.co.uk (at least one of whom must be your last/current employer) or complete our application form.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of adults and children and expect all WorkwithYork staff to share this commitment. We will require successful applicants to undertake an Enhanced Criminal Records check via DBS.