In this vital role, you'll foster therapeutic relationships with both young people and their families, assisting in their recovery and reintegration into the community. Your expertise will be key in coordinating with Children's Services and other agencies to ensure a smooth transition upon discharge. You will be at the forefront of safeguarding practices, guiding your colleagues and ensuring that every concern is addressed swiftly and effectively. If you're a forward-thinking and adaptable individual ready to make a lasting impact in mental health care, we'd love to hear from you. Join us in creating a nurturing environment where every young person can thrive!
This is an exciting opportunity to join our dynamic team as a Social Worker within the Lavender Walk Adolescent Unit where you will work alongside, and be supervised by, the ward's Senior Social Worker and Safeguarding Lead.
Lavender Walk is a 12 bed General Adolescent Unit (GAU) that cares for young people between the ages of 13-18 years old, with complex mental health needs and emotional difficulties. We are a busy and friendly service which welcomes new skills and new ideas. It is part of Central & North West London (CNWL) Foundation Mental Health Trust and is located within the South Kensington and Chelsea Mental Health Centre (1 Nightingale Place, London, SW10 9NG). There are good transport links and a variety of local shops and amenities.
The Lavender Walk team is made up of two Consultant Psychiatrists (one of whom is the Clinical Lead), Consultant Clinical Psychologist (Therapies Lead), Matron (Clinical Unit Manager), Ward Manager, Qualified Nurses, Nurse Associates, Health Care Assistants, Speciality Doctors, Junior Doctors, Clinical Psychologists, Systemic Family Psychotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Art Therapist, Speech and Language Therapist, Dietician, Social Workers and Teaching staff. We also regularly have students and trainees from the above professional disciplines on placement with the team.
This is a new role and an exciting opportunity to help develop our social work treatment pathway delivering assessment and interventions to our young people and their families. We are looking for a motivated individual who is enthusiastic, creative, forward thinking, and adaptable to work within our well established and welcoming team.
The successful applicant will provide a social work service to young people experiencing mental health problems across all sectors of care as part of a multi-disciplinary CAMHS team. In your role, you will work with young people and their family/carers developing a therapeutic relationship and contribute to the multi-disciplinary assessment and interventions of young people to support their recovery and reintegration back to community settings.
Your role will involve liaising with Children's Services and other external professionals and agencies to help facilitate discharge and the transition back to the community. As a social worker on our ward, you will also be central in ensuring that safeguarding concerns are responded to appropriately and in a timely manner by the service and other agencies, which will often involve providing specialist advice and consultation to your colleagues to ensure that safeguarding processes are followed.
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