Senior Social Worker inChelmsford inChelmsford PUBLISHED
MON 6 JAN 2025
The successful applicant will have the opportunity to work autonomously while benefiting from the support of a multi-disciplinary team and ongoing professional development through training opportunities, including AMHP training. Additionally, the role requires active participation as an Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP), conducting assessments and collaborating with service users and their families to ensure appropriate actions are taken in line with mental health legislation.
We are seeking enthusiastic and resourceful senior social worker who will have the ability to respond positively and creatively to the needs of our service users. Residents of Mid Essex are well supported because of the hard work and dedication of our current team members working.
You will work at the forefront of our community mental health treatment teams in the Mid Essex area (Chelmsford) providing EPUT's secondary mental health services. Our posts require individuals to think with a positive and forward thinking attitude, putting the needs and safety of our services users at the heart of everything we do. The role offers the ability to have independent professional freedom but also with access to the support and expertise of a multi-disciplinary team.
Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (EPUT) invests in the development of senior social workers as we play a lead role in the 'Think Ahead' initiative. Within the Mid Essex locality we offer support from our Social Care Leadership Team, along with opportunities to progress and advance within your career for those aspiring leaders and clinical experts. The team provides caseload supervision as well as managerial supervision, limited and weighted caseloads and extensive training and development opportunities - including AMHP Training.
About us
The successful candidate will work as a Senior Social Worker in the community mental health treatment teams providing high quality assessment and intervention to service users experiencing a wide range of mental health problems, promoting recovery and independence, using Mental Health Care clusters to identify appropriate pathways and treatment plans with service users.
You will support the delivery of strength and asset based approaches promoting recovery and social inclusion with individuals and families. This post will involve implementing the personalisation agenda through strengths based assessments and youll be vital to delivering the statutory social care duties and responsibilities within the Care Act (2.
Following appointment, the postholder is required to actively practice as an AMHP (subject to AMHP qualification if not currently an AMHP they will be required to undertake AMHP training at the earliest opportunity) on the Area AMHP rota, undertaking MHA assessments and other allocated work in relation to service users with a range of mental health problems and engaging with their carers so that, within the legislation, appropriate action is taken.
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