Job overview
Are you passionate about working with service users in Later Life? If so, we have an interesting opportunity to work with our skilled, experienced and supportive multi-disciplinary team as a Band 5 CPN/Mental Health Practitioner. The team provides complex interventions for older people who have severe mental health problems, both functional and organic.
You will be working collaboratively with service users and carers to provide a range of services including evidence-based psycho-social interventions and medication management.
You will need excellent communication skills and be flexible and resourceful in your approach. You will need to demonstrate your ability and commitment to team working and a genuine interest in achieving wellbeing and positive health outcomes for older adults.
Main duties of the job
Main duties include:
1. To contribute to the planning, delivery and review of treatment and care.
2. To act as a key worker for identified service users for whom you are delivering defined, evidence-based therapeutic interventions.
3. To provide support to carers and enable them in their relationship with the service user.
4. In collaboration with service users and carers, to carry out safety assessments and develop safety plans.
5. To provide mentoring/training to students and unregistered colleagues.
6. To support practices which foster effective teamwork.
This post is open to newly qualified social workers. In line with AWP trust policy, all newly qualified social workers (NQSW) will be recruited initially at Band 5 level, regardless of advertised role banding. All NQSWs are expected to successfully complete their ASYE within 2 years of employment, unless there are exceptional circumstances in which case it may be extended for a further 2 years.
If you have been appointed to an advertised Band 6 role, this will be an automatic progression, following confirmation of your successful ASYE completion. If you have been appointed to a Band 5 post, you will then be eligible to apply for a subsequent Band 6 vacancy upon successful ASYE completion.
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