Senior Practitioner - Home Treatment Team/AMHP
Job description
37 hours per week
This is an exciting and rare opportunity for a qualified and experienced Social Worker to join the Home Treatment Team as a Senior Practitioner, based in the Princess of Wales Hospital. This is a specialist service for adults with a severe and enduring mental illness and possible co-occurring issues. The team covers the Borough of Bridgend.
The aim of the Home Treatment team is to support people to live in their chosen environment by preventing avoidable hospital admission and to support discharge from hospital.
Adhering to a strength based model of practice, your role will be to assess the needs of people presenting in crisis, in the community and/or in hospital, and support these individuals and their carers to improve and maintain independence at home or assist in an early discharge from hospital.
As a member of the team, you will share with other members the responsibility for the effective operation of the service and participate in its ongoing development.
Ideally you will have completed the AMHP training. If not, you will be expected to do so. As an AMHP, you will work alongside the AMHP Service, to provide a quality experience for those who are in mental distress.
For an informal discussion about this post please contact Emma-Jayne Roche on 07891330977.
The ability to greet customers through the medium of Welsh is a requirement for this post.
Protecting children, young people or adults at risk is a core responsibility of all council employees.
An Enhanced Children and Adults Barred list criminal records check by the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) is a requirement for this post.
Closing Date: 19 March 2025
Shortlisting Date: 21 March 2025
Interview Date: 07 April 2025
Benefits to working at Bridgend County Borough Council
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