We are currently looking for a part time Social Worker for one of our private clients based in Reading.
An integral pathway supporting and empowering service users in their recovery and rehabilitation. The medium, low secure and rehabilitation wards, as well as a psychiatric intensive care units (PICUs) are all set within 21 acres in the Berkshire countryside. We provide comprehensive personalised assessment and treatment programmes for males with mental illness/complex care needs as well as those with personality disorder within our Medium & Low Secure services. Service users may have histories of offending and/or may have failed in previous placements.
The recovery focused model of care is bespoke to the individual needs of each service user. All care pathways are Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) led, with a holistic focus that ensures all aspects of the service users’ health are catered for, including their physical and mental health.
We offer a seamless internal care pathway:-
Mental Health
Medium Secure
Ward 1 provides a 12 bed acute medium secure setting for assessment and treatment of male service users. People can be admitted to this ward if they are a new referral into medium secure care, transferring from prison, if they are stepping down from a high secure or stepping up from a low security setting, due to a deterioration in their presentation.
Ward 2 provides a 14 bed medium secure rehabilitation setting for male service users with longer term needs.
Low Secure:
Ward 3 provides 9 enhanced Low Secure beds for male service user who require assessment and treatment in a highly structured and safe environment.
Ward 4 provides 11 bed low secure setting for assessment and treatment of male service users.
Ward 5 provides a 13 bed low secure rehabilitation setting for male service users with longer term needs.
Rehabilitation flats:
7 low secure rehabilitation flats for service users to live with greater independence prior to discharge.
Older Adult Service:
Provides a 17 bed low secure older adult setting, providing care and treatment to men who have been detained under the Mental Health Act 1983 (amended 2007) and have a history of offending behaviour.
Our Multidisciplinary team (MDT) offer a patient centred holistic approach which provides age-appropriate specialist interventions to treat mental illness, risk, and offending behaviour. With an emphasis on all aspects of the patients’ health, including their physical and mental health inclusive of end-of-life care for long term patients.
Psychiatric Intensive Care
This ward provides an 11 bed Psychiatric Intensive Care Units (PICU) for male service users.
Another ward provides a 10 bed Psychiatric Intensive Care Units (PICU) for female service users.
Our purpose built PICU’s are designed to provide treatment for patients in an acute psychiatric crisis who are at risk to themselves or others, they cannot be managed in an acute or high dependency unit and require an emergency admission.
This 24-hour service provides assessment, stabilisation, care, and support within the least restrictive environment to patients before they move safely through their care pathway to a less acute/secure setting in conjunction with their Community Mental Health Teams.
Unfortunately, we are not able to consider those who require sponsorship, you should already have your Right to Work without any restrictions.
Positive Healthcare understands that exemplary healthcare provision matters. We strive to provide an exceptional, assured, premium service that continually delights our candidates.
It is our vision to enable healthcare providers to deliver on their promises, being at their side with solutions that bridge EVERY gap so that they can continue their work seamlessly, with the right professionals in place.
Please only apply if you satisfy our requirements