Main area: Mental Health
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract: 11 months (FTC/Secondment from 20/11/24 to 19/11/25)
Hours: Part time - 22.5 hours per week
Job ref: 354-FH-20492-B
Site: The Chichester Centre
Town: Chichester
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 01/01/2025 23:59
Welcome from our Chief Executive
Our organisation is expanding and we're looking for people with the right values, skills and/or potential to join us. We need people with energy, expertise, and enthusiasm to help us provide the very best possible specialist NHS mental health and learning disability care.
Job Overview
An opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated social worker to join the Multi-Disciplinary Team based at the Chichester Centre, a low secure hospital managed by the Forensic Healthcare Service (FHS), to cover maternity leave. You will be part of the wider FHS social work team, working alongside people with mental health issues and challenging or offending behaviour, their friends and families, and their professional network to develop care pathways.
As a Social Worker in the FHS, you must be motivated and hard-working with a passion for delivering high-quality care. The successful candidate will demonstrate a commitment to effective team working, have excellent communication, assessment and risk management skills, and be prepared to be actively involved in interventions to prepare people for discharge to the community.
Main Duties of the Job
* Provide for the social care needs of patients with challenging behaviours and/or offending behaviour detained on the ward in conditions of low security.
* As part of the multi-disciplinary team, attend ward rounds and CPA's and undertake related work.
* Carry out a range of social work responsibilities within the framework of NHS and Community Care Act.
* With training and support, develop an understanding of the legal duties related to this client group including MHA 1983 (Part III), DVCA 2004 and MCA 2005.
* With training and support, develop excellent report writing skills and the ability to prepare and present evidence to statutory bodies such as MHT's, Ministry of Justice and Parole Board.
* With training and support, develop an understanding of multi-agency working in relation to risk management including information sharing protocols in the interest of public protection.
* Liaise with families, friends and social networks to gather information and to offer support and signposting where appropriate.
* Understand, respect and work within Protected Characteristics of Equalities Act 2010.
Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
* To attend multi-disciplinary ward meetings, CPA reviews, admission and discharge care planning.
* Bring knowledge of social care issues to the multi-disciplinary team.
* Advise team through knowledge of MHA, MCA and on Safeguarding.
* Obtain and provide welfare benefit advice to patients.
* Deliver psychotherapeutic intervention with other members of the team.
* Visit out of area placements to monitor provision and plan care pathways.
* Visit high secure hospitals to assess with other members of the team the suitability of transfer to conditions of less security.
* Write reports and give evidence to MHT.
Person Specification
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name: Tom Allen
Job title: Social Work Lead, Chichester Centre
Email address: tom.allen@nhs.net
Telephone number: 07756 490507
For further information, contact: Julie Payne, Professional Lead for Social Work
Tel: 01323 444194
Mob: 07824 085273
Email: Julie.payne2@spft.nhs.uk
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