Advanced Social Work Practitioner - Inpatients Pathway
| Posting date: | 12 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £51,488.00 to £57,802.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £51488.00 - £57802.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 05 May 2024 |
| Location: | Lewisham, SE13 6LW |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9334-24-0438 |
Summary
To work in partnership with service users, families and carers to meet social care needs that arise in relation to a range of mental disorders and often highly complex social situations and provide direct work as appropriate to assist recovery. To work together with the Social Work lead and the directorate Safeguarding lead to provide an effective social work service for service users, their families and carers by ensuring access to appropriate resources from local authorities and a range of external agencies on a national level. To contribute to the wards referral screening and admission processes and to gather information from service users, carers, family members and professionals in order to undertake assessment of social care needs and contribute to complex risk assessment and ongoing risk management and safety planning on the ward and in the community. To make referrals where appropriate and to provide and access advocacy, information and guidance for service users, carers and agencies. To coordinate care for service users by undertaking assessments and plans for aftercare informed by specialist knowledge of the Mental Health Act 1983, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Care Act 2014, Children Act 1989 and Children Act 2004, in accordance with policy guidance and procedures. This includes screening for and / or undertaking Care Act assessments, presenting to funding panels where required. To support MDT colleagues to trouble-shoot barriers to commissioning/ securing funding for supported accommodation or other packages of care and support; this will include aftercare arrangements under S117, MOJ requirements, and MCA/Court of Protection pathways. To regularly provide specialist social work and social care contributions to MDT meetings, case conferences, Tribunals, Associate Hospital Managers, CPA planning, treatment and review meetings for service users as required. To produce complex reports, attend MHA tribunals and complete agreed core tasks for SLAM, undertaking procedural and administrative duties related to the social work function. To provide social work consultation, training and advice to the ward and community services as needed, with a focus on particular aspects of the Mental Health Act including CTOs, Mental Capacity Act, adult mental health, adult safeguarding and compliance with NICE guidelines. To promote equality, diversity, and inclusion, maintaining an awareness of the equality and diversity policy and working to create and maintain a safe, supportive and welcoming environment where all people are treated with dignity and their identity and culture are valued and respected. To ensure information is recorded consistently, accurately and within statutory timescales. To ensure service user confidentiality is maintained and information is shared with the service user, carer, and other agencies in accordance Trust data protection requirements. To carry out the duties and responsibilities of the post, in accordance with local authority and Trust Health and Safety Policy and relevant Health and Safety legislation. To undertake the statutory duties of the AMHP on a rota basis as a member of the Lewisham AMHP service (once warranted by that Authority). To provide practice education for social work placements, where candidate is compliant with Practice Educator Professional Standards. (PEPS 1&2 or equivalent ) To implement adult safeguarding procedures in accordance with inter-agency and trust Procedures for Safeguarding Adults