Job summary
- Main area
- Allied Health Professional
- Grade
- NHS AfC :Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job share
- Job ref
- 388-7122498-AHP-A
- Employer
- Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Chadwell
- Town
- Paignton
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum/pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Social Work Lead - Older Peoples Mental Health
NHS AfC :Band 7
Job overview
We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic, motivated, dynamic person who can demonstrate commitment to the provision of high-quality person-centred care.
To lead and manage a team of experienced, specialist mental health social care workers, delivering high quality, strength based provisions, working with older people experiencing mental health difficulties and their families and carers. Maintaining and enhancing the quality of life and wellbeing of older people and their families and with promoting independence, autonomy, and dignity.
We are also happy to consider applications from those experienced social work professionals who have an AMHP qualification, this would attract and enhancement on the salary of 11.8% for which there is expectation that you will commit to the Torbay and South Devon AMHP Rota for a minimum 2 duties per month
If you are passionate about providing high quality individualised patient care, enthusiastic about supporting patients' rehabilitation and increasing their independence and quality of life we would like to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
Manage staff, resources, and relationships with key agencies to ensure timely and effective assessment, personalised support planning, and care management. Work in partnership with all agencies to ensure, a high quality, strength base provision is delivered to services users experiencing mental health problems, there family and carers
Lead on mental health expertise and social work knowledge to oversee staff cases loads which will have a high level of complexity
Ensure the most cost-effective and beneficial care packages are established, delivered and monitored, and comply with all relevant statutory requirements and Trust policies, standards and guidelines.
Ensure teams and individuals: - understand and apply legislation and national policy requirements, - understand and apply TSDNFT (and where appropriate partner agency) policies
Work within agreed procedures
Develop and maintain effective working relationships
Meet required performance expectations
Deliver a service to the public that meets required quality standards and which optimises the opportunity for people to lead and manage their support
Working for our organisation
A Baywide specialist service, The Older People's Mental Health Team (Adult Social Care) is a multi-disciplinary team co-located with Health services . A team with an excellent reputation for promoting strength based, creative approaches to working with older people with complex functional and organic mental health difficulties.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Communication with service users and patients
Communications may include dealing with those people who have difficulties relating to highly complex, contentious emotional and psychological conditions associated with their presenting conditions. People may have difficulties in communicating or understanding, and may be dysphasic, depressed, deaf, blind, or unable to accept their diagnosis or situation
Contribute to service developments within the Care Trust, attending working groups and representing social care on inter-agency and multi-disciplinary groups
Understand and develop the team’s practice performance using management information, audits, complaints and compliments and other quality assurance measures
Initiate, facilitate and lead liaison across agencies at a local level and maintain a collaborative working approach to assist in the resolution of complex dilemmas and practice issues
Managing practice and risk
Lead on and maintain service improvement in line with strategic direction
Implement Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust customer service standards, and ensure that these are applied by all team members; respond as required to representations and complaints
Create and maintain a culture of professional curiosity within the team
Maintain knowledge and understanding for the relevant area of organisational practice and ensure that the team practice is in accordance
Maintain continuous professional development of self and all team members, to ensure that practice is up to date and commensurate with legal, statutory and service standards
Responsibility for Administration
Maintain accurate and up to date case records, and timely completion of care management forms as required by data management systems (PARIS)
Ensure that minutes are recorded accurately and timely at case conferences and strategy meetings for vulnerable adults
Complete manual and IT-based records which meet Care Trust quality standards
Ensure that supervision notes and staff personal files are accurate and kept up to date
Ensure that service users are placed at the heart of the Service, treated courteously and fairly, and consulted on all aspects of their service provision
Promote wellbeing and recovery in mental health and to work closely with families and carers of service users
Act in the most vulnerable service users’ Best Interest under the legal framework of the Mental Capacity Act
Person specification
Qualifications and Knowleadge
Essential criteria
- Current registration with SW England
- Relevant professional Social Work qualification – Degree/Diploma in Social Work, Certificate of Qualification in Social Work or Certificate in Social Services
- Experience of working in mental health
- PQ and commitment to post qualification
Desirable criteria
- Management Experince
- Ability to plan and direct complex service demands
- Experience of overseeing complex Safeguarding investigations
Essential
Essential criteria
- Experience in management
Desirable criteria
- Management Qualification
essential
Essential criteria
- Experience of legal /Court Work
Desirable criteria
- DoLS / Court of Protection / Tribunals
Essential
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with Mental Disorders in a Community Setting
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of Functional and Organic Disorders
Essential
Essential criteria
- Experience of taking a Lead Role in Safeguarding ,
Desirable criteria
- Chairing S42 Meeting, Leading Investigations, Guiding others to regards to the Safeguarding process
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Andrea Collings
- Job title
- Community Services manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07821581464
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