People and Place
Ref: 000575
Contract: Permanent
Salary: £45,718 - £49,764 per annum (Grade 9) + 20% unsocial allowance
Car User: Essential
Hours: 36.66 per week
Based: The Marjorie Lees Unit (Room 12), Royal Oldham Hospital, Rochdale Road, Oldham, OL1 2JH
Closing Date: Sunday 23rd March 2025
Interview Dates: w/c Monday 7th April 2025
Informal Enquiries: Dan Pemberton (dan.pemberton@oldham.gov.uk)
Role Overview:
Oldham Emergency Duty Team (EDT) is pleased to announce an exciting opportunity for the recruitment of an Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) Social worker; to join a well-established team in delivering support and assessment to vulnerable children and adults outside of normal working hours.
Oldham EDT respond to emergency out-of-hours social work referrals during evenings, overnight, weekends and public holidays, where emergency intervention from the Local Authority is required to safeguard vulnerable children and adults.
This role will involve being part of an existing out of hours Rota (please see attached document). It will include time limited work with service users, multi-agency work with other professionals and Office-based assessment, support, triage and administrative duties.
Additional Training and support will be provided in relation to promoting an applicant’s development in Children’s Safeguarding and Adult Safeguarding.
Key Responsibilities:
* To develop a local knowledge and understanding of resources which are available to meet the needs of service users, and signpost services users to appropriate service if appropriate.
* To contribute to the review and evaluation of cases, through observations, assessment and monitoring, ensuring actions are followed up.
* To undertake enquiries and assessments of vulnerable children and adults, including assessments under the Mental Health Act.
* To ensure files and records are accurately maintained, in accordance with Council policies and procedures. Information should be appropriately shared with other professionals.
* To ensure accurate information is recorded on social care IT system and passed to appropriate daytime services.
* To provide written and verbal contributions to other agencies and professionals
* On occasions you may be asked to convey families to a place of safety and/or children to foster placements. There may be occasions when you will need to assist adults to move to care establishments.
* To work out of office daytime hours, including weekend work. Occasional work in normal working hours may be required when working in partnership with other agencies.
Key Requirements:
To succeed in this role, you will need as a minimum:
* Experience of direct work with children, adults & families and an ability to quickly build rapport to enable positive outcomes overcoming any barriers
* A post qualifying qualification to be an Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP)
* The ability to work cooperatively with other agencies
* To work well under pressure and manage crisis situations
* To have good ICT and record keeping skills
* An understanding of good practice, legislation, issues and local/national initiatives for child and adult safeguarding
* The ability to work out of normal working hours and have access to your own transport
What we need from you:
To apply for any of these positions we need you to be a qualified, experienced social worker and registered with Social Work England. You must also hold the qualification of Approved Mental Health Professional.
Oldham Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
The successful applicant will be required to register to the DBS Update Service to enable the Council to undertake rechecks throughout your employment. The cost to register is £13 and can be claimed back upon commencement to the role but will not be refunded if you do not accept the offer of employment.
This post requires registration to Social Work England. *For Social Workers*
If you would like support with this application, an interview or interested in looking at any courses that could help with this position please get in touch with Get Oldham Working - Get Oldham Working registration form - Oldham Council
NB. - Any candidate that meets the criteria of our Guaranteed Assessment Scheme and meets the essential criteria of the role, will be guaranteed the first stage of assessment (whether that is an interview or another assessment, as appropriate).
Our Guaranteed Assessment Scheme supports candidates with disabilities, carers, those who are aged 24 or under and have previously been in or currently in care, and those whose last long term substantive employer was the Armed Forces.
Diversity and Inclusion:
At Oldham Council, we are committed to creating a fair and inclusive workplace that is as diverse as the communities we serve. We aim to develop a culture of respect, where differences are recognised regardless of background. We aim to be an employer of choice by engaging in fair and open recruitment processes and Applications are encouraged from all communities across the borough to create a workforce that represents the diversity of our population.
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