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Mental Health Social Worker
| Posting date: | 08 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £33,024 to £35,745 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Level 7:- £33,024 - £35,745 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 21 July 2025 |
| Location: | Clevedon, North Somerset |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | North Somerset Council |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | ASHA0399 |
Summary
North Somerset Council is dedicated to providing high-quality services to our community. We are committed to creating a fair, green, and more inclusive environment for all our residents. Join us and contribute to making a positive impact on our community.
The Role
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a temporary, full time dedicated Social Worker to join our Complex Intervention and Treatment Team (CITT). This is a fixed term post for 12 months and a newly qualified Social Worker would be considered. CITT is an integrated team (North Somerset Council Adult Care and Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS) responsible for the health and social care of older adults with mental health problems.
The postholders will be based within the People and Communities Directorate/AWP, North Somerset Council, working in the Mental Health Team, which is responsible for meeting the health and social care needs of people with a severe enduring mental illness. This involves the provision of advice and information, carrying out assessments of need, preparing Care plans, providing support and a range of personal social services to users and carers.
Working with people with severe mental illness will involve supporting the most vulnerable members of the community, with a range of complex needs, requiring a highly skilled approach in assessing risk, treatment and need. The postholder will engage and work with service users and their carers to achieve the best possible outcome for their future quality of life.
In this role, you will assess, within the relevant legislation, the risk, health and care needs of service users, including carers of individuals, who have a range of mental health problems, planning, implementing and evaluating appropriate action, negotiating for and co-ordinating the application of resources and/or if necessary provision of service.
Key Responsibilities:
• As a Mental Health Social Worker in CITT you will be part of a multi-disciplinary team and responsible for care co-ordinating a caseload of older adults with severe and enduring mental health problems, both functional and organic.
• Undertaking assessments under the Care Act,
and Mental Capacity Act.
• Co-ordinating and providing appropriate interventions, including commissioning care provision.
• To safeguard vulnerable service users; undertaking risk assessment and management plans.
This position is exempt under the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions) Order 1975 and is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check.
Valid driving licence and own transport, or be able to provide alternative, suitable method of travel is an essential condition for this role.
About You
We are looking for an individual who is passionate about working in secondary mental health care for older adults and who possesses the following skills and experience:
Essential Criteria:
Certificate of Qualification in Social Work or Diploma in Social Work/BSc [Hons] Social Work
• Experience of working with people with serious and enduring mental illness.
• Ability to demonstrate knowledge and experience of at least two social work skill areas.
• Ability to:
a) Adapt to unexpected problems and situations.
b) Analyse individual and social situations and to describe the interaction of the factors involved.
c) Make decisions to complex situations sometimes on the basis of uncertain information.
d) Communicate effectively on the telephone and write cogent and lucid reports.
e) Plan programs of work with service users and evaluate such programs thereafter.
f) To bring the team any other skill or quality specified in the advertisement.
Personal skills:
a) demonstrate an ability to form and maintain good relationships both with clients and members of other agencies.
b) have an understanding of emotions and emotional needs.
c) offer warmth, care, firmness and control, when required.
d) be flexible accepting disposition
e) be able to work under conditions of pressure and emotional stress
f) to be adaptable and able to respond to requests of requirements at short notice
g) have the ability to work as a member of a team
h) accept the statutory responsibilities of the agency, especially the 1983 mental health act, and use them positively to assist or protect the Service Users or other people.
i) must demonstrate abilities in risk assessment and risk management including appropriate risk taking.
j) must be able to demonstrate an awareness of procedural and accountability issues within the department
k) demonstrate initiative and be self reliant
Knowledge and understanding of the symptoms and effects on the individual of severe and enduring mental illness and of appropriate interventions including medical, psychosocial and therapeutic.
Must be willing to travel widely within North Somerset and outside on occasions also you must be able to work outside normal working hours both on a
planned basis and at short notice
The ability to cope with the duties and responsibilities and with the associated working environment.
Satisfactory enhanced DBS disclosure certificate (relevant applications and checks will be carried out before any job offer is confirmed).
Contact Information:
For further information about the role, please contact Jo Holmes, Integrated Team Manager j.holmes11@nhs.net
Important Information
Interview date: w/c 11th August 2025
We are currently only able to accept applications from candidates who have full permission to work in the UK.
The Role
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a temporary, full time dedicated Social Worker to join our Complex Intervention and Treatment Team (CITT). This is a fixed term post for 12 months and a newly qualified Social Worker would be considered. CITT is an integrated team (North Somerset Council Adult Care and Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS) responsible for the health and social care of older adults with mental health problems.
The postholders will be based within the People and Communities Directorate/AWP, North Somerset Council, working in the Mental Health Team, which is responsible for meeting the health and social care needs of people with a severe enduring mental illness. This involves the provision of advice and information, carrying out assessments of need, preparing Care plans, providing support and a range of personal social services to users and carers.
Working with people with severe mental illness will involve supporting the most vulnerable members of the community, with a range of complex needs, requiring a highly skilled approach in assessing risk, treatment and need. The postholder will engage and work with service users and their carers to achieve the best possible outcome for their future quality of life.
In this role, you will assess, within the relevant legislation, the risk, health and care needs of service users, including carers of individuals, who have a range of mental health problems, planning, implementing and evaluating appropriate action, negotiating for and co-ordinating the application of resources and/or if necessary provision of service.
Key Responsibilities:
• As a Mental Health Social Worker in CITT you will be part of a multi-disciplinary team and responsible for care co-ordinating a caseload of older adults with severe and enduring mental health problems, both functional and organic.
• Undertaking assessments under the Care Act,
and Mental Capacity Act.
• Co-ordinating and providing appropriate interventions, including commissioning care provision.
• To safeguard vulnerable service users; undertaking risk assessment and management plans.
This position is exempt under the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions) Order 1975 and is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check.
Valid driving licence and own transport, or be able to provide alternative, suitable method of travel is an essential condition for this role.
About You
We are looking for an individual who is passionate about working in secondary mental health care for older adults and who possesses the following skills and experience:
Essential Criteria:
Certificate of Qualification in Social Work or Diploma in Social Work/BSc [Hons] Social Work
• Experience of working with people with serious and enduring mental illness.
• Ability to demonstrate knowledge and experience of at least two social work skill areas.
• Ability to:
a) Adapt to unexpected problems and situations.
b) Analyse individual and social situations and to describe the interaction of the factors involved.
c) Make decisions to complex situations sometimes on the basis of uncertain information.
d) Communicate effectively on the telephone and write cogent and lucid reports.
e) Plan programs of work with service users and evaluate such programs thereafter.
f) To bring the team any other skill or quality specified in the advertisement.
Personal skills:
a) demonstrate an ability to form and maintain good relationships both with clients and members of other agencies.
b) have an understanding of emotions and emotional needs.
c) offer warmth, care, firmness and control, when required.
d) be flexible accepting disposition
e) be able to work under conditions of pressure and emotional stress
f) to be adaptable and able to respond to requests of requirements at short notice
g) have the ability to work as a member of a team
h) accept the statutory responsibilities of the agency, especially the 1983 mental health act, and use them positively to assist or protect the Service Users or other people.
i) must demonstrate abilities in risk assessment and risk management including appropriate risk taking.
j) must be able to demonstrate an awareness of procedural and accountability issues within the department
k) demonstrate initiative and be self reliant
Knowledge and understanding of the symptoms and effects on the individual of severe and enduring mental illness and of appropriate interventions including medical, psychosocial and therapeutic.
Must be willing to travel widely within North Somerset and outside on occasions also you must be able to work outside normal working hours both on a
planned basis and at short notice
The ability to cope with the duties and responsibilities and with the associated working environment.
Satisfactory enhanced DBS disclosure certificate (relevant applications and checks will be carried out before any job offer is confirmed).
Contact Information:
For further information about the role, please contact Jo Holmes, Integrated Team Manager j.holmes11@nhs.net
Important Information
Interview date: w/c 11th August 2025
We are currently only able to accept applications from candidates who have full permission to work in the UK.
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