Main area: Social Worker Grade NHS AFC Band 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Full time)
Job ref: 395-AR192-24-B
Site: Goodmayes Hospital
Town: Ilford
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 pa (Plus HCAS)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 06/02/2025 23:59
Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Social Worker within the Barking and Dagenham Adults Home Treatment Team.
B&DHTT is a Multi-Disciplinary Team which provides a specialist service for adults that present with a mental health crisis. The service is an alternative to hospital admission and works intensively with service users in their own home.
Main duties of the job
The post will provide specialist assessment and intervention to service users within the London Boroughs of Barking and Dagenham. You will work as part of the multi-disciplinary team to provide a co-ordinated service, contributing specialist knowledge and advice to others involved in the service user’s care.
The post holder needs to be an enthusiastic and innovative Social Worker with experience of working with adults.
The post holder will be expected to work across a 7 day a week rota including weekends and bank holidays and will need to be able to travel across sites in order to carry out their clinical duties (car parking pass is provided).
Person specification
Qualifications
* NVQ level 2 or equivalent standard of literacy and numeracy
* Current RMN / HCP registration
Experience
* Working with older people with complex, acute mental health needs.
* Providing staff supervision and appraisal to both qualified and non-professionally aligned staff
* Evidence of post-registration clinical development.
* Experience of assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating aspects of care.
* Experience in working / liaising with multi-disciplinary teams and other agencies in the provision of care.
Knowledge
* An awareness of NHS Plan, NSF and clinical governance priorities
* The 1983 Mental Health Act and related legislation, codes of practice and guidance
* Medication management
* Policy Guidance relating to Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Teams.
* Knowledge of Older Adults mental health problems including organic and functional illnesses
We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.
Equal opportunities employer
We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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