£39,513 - £43,693 pro rata per year - Grade 9, and Grade 8 (£35,235 - £38,626 pro rata per year) for newly qualified. Permanent, Part-time (32.5hrs) and 4 days weekly. The OPMHT is an Integrated Community Team including both Social Services and Health staff.
As a Social Worker within the Team, you will work closely with other colleagues to negotiate outcomes with service users and carers and identify solutions to achieve them.
Older Person's Mental Health Team are committed to:
* Ensuring all health and social care needs and risk are assessed and that service users are managed within the Care Programme Approach and risk management plan agreed. The plan will include the views of the service user and relevant carers, and a copy will be provided for them.
* Providing services that are accessible to all service users within secondary mental health complex unstable in compliance with equality and diversity principles and relevant legislation.
* Working with service users within a model of care that assists in positive outcomes and enables them to return to live safely within the community and when appropriate discharge from secondary care services.
* Working collaboratively with Consultants, CPN (Community Psychiatric Nurses), AS (Alzheimer's Society), IMCA (Independent Mental Capacity Advisor), and IMHA's (Independent Mental Health Advocate) Admiral nurses O/T, Physio, Domiciliary care, residential care services, enablement services, direct payments, SALT (Speech and Language Therapists), Dieticians, Third sector brokerage, Third sector co-ordinators, Local area co-ordinators, dementia co-ordinators.
* Enabling service users to have access to local advocacy services.
* Assessing the needs of carers and ensuring appropriate support is given within available resources.
* Actively involving service users and carers in planning and delivering services to OPMHT.
* Promoting the needs of people with mental health problems and reducing the stigma associated with mental health care.
* Working in collaboration with other statutory and voluntary agencies and ensuring the needs of the service user are considered.
Safeguarding
Within Swansea Council there is a "Safeguarding is Everybody's Business" principle, and this applies to all Swansea Council employees, elected members, volunteers and contractors.
Further details can be found at https://www.swansea.gov.uk/corporatesafeguarding.
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