Adult Social Care Worker – Mental Health
| Posting date: | 16 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | £32,061 to £34,434 per year, pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 15 January 2026 |
| Location: | Worle, Weston-Super-Mare |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | North Somerset Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | ASHA0431 |
Summary
About Us
North Somerset Council is committed 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
We are seeking to recruit a passionate and experienced Adult Social Care Worker
in the Recovery & Social Care integrated Mental Health service with North Somerset
You will be working with adults of working age with severe and enduring mental illness providing a strengths based perspective within a multi disciplinary setting. You will undertaking duties under the Care Act 2014 including assessments and reviews, work closely with social workers in the team to carry out capacity assessments, best interest decision-making, safety assessments, and provide interventions to maximise independence and wellbeing for the people in our service. You will work closely with other professionals and agencies and ensure people using our service receive an excellent standard of social care alongside their mental health care. You will work within key legislative frameworks such as the Care Act (2014), The Mental Health Act (1983) and Mental Capacity Act (2005). In this role, you will undertake a number of diverse specialist or technical activities for adults with care and support needs within organisational and legislative frameworks or assessments from other professionals. You will work closely with external partners and providers of social care reviewing care plans and care provision and responding accordingly to any Safeguarding concerns. Work is face paced but never boring, you will use skills that would be gained through formal qualifications and/or considerable relevant work experience. Roles at this level are expected to work unsupervised for much of the time, accessing and assessing information independently and can be undertaken by telephone, face to face in the community, office base or in service users home.
Key Responsibilities:
• To work within the community Mental Health Recovery and Social Care Reviewing team to provided support and intervention for people with severe and enduring mental illness within the remit of adult social care within the integrated team. To work as part of MDT around the person to promote mental wellbeing, reduce and mitigate risk and promote positive outcomes for service uses.
• To work with service users and families/carers to provide advice and support, assess risk and care needs of service users under the Care Act 2014 and S117 MHA to develop a framework for care plans/programme of intervention to meet their needs. To provide support to service users and providers to help maintain packages of support and resolve issues when they arise to avoid breakdown in care.
• To identify Safeguarding concerns and respond appropriately, contributing to both NHS and Local authority Safeguarding enquiries.
• With support of senior’s and social workers carry out Mental Capacity Assessments and Best Interest decision making.
• To undertake a full range of social care and statutory tasks, provide social care knowledge within the integrated team.
• To provide timely review in line with N-Somerset organisational procedures/polices, statutory duties and Avon & Wiltshire Partnership.
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.
This position is currently based at The Coast Resource Centre Worle.
Work Style
At North Somerset Council, we offer a hybrid working environment based on four distinct work styles. Depending on the role and personal circumstances, you will fall into one of these categories. However, please note that during the induction period, it may be necessary to spend more time in the office to support your learning and development. We are flexible and open to discussions about your preferred working style, and if you wish to be in the office more frequently, this can be negotiated.
This role falls into the category of Flexible Worker which means you can expect to work in the following way:
Flexible Worker – Remove heading
• 2-3 days in the office
• Works both from home and the office, depending on the task at hand.
• Training is provided to help balance work-life and manage time effectively, with an emphasis on communication for team touchpoints and planning in-office days for collaboration.
About You
We are looking for an individual who is passionate about Social Care and Mental Health, and who possesses the following skills and experience:
North Somerset Council is committed 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
We are seeking to recruit a passionate and experienced Adult Social Care Worker
in the Recovery & Social Care integrated Mental Health service with North Somerset
You will be working with adults of working age with severe and enduring mental illness providing a strengths based perspective within a multi disciplinary setting. You will undertaking duties under the Care Act 2014 including assessments and reviews, work closely with social workers in the team to carry out capacity assessments, best interest decision-making, safety assessments, and provide interventions to maximise independence and wellbeing for the people in our service. You will work closely with other professionals and agencies and ensure people using our service receive an excellent standard of social care alongside their mental health care. You will work within key legislative frameworks such as the Care Act (2014), The Mental Health Act (1983) and Mental Capacity Act (2005). In this role, you will undertake a number of diverse specialist or technical activities for adults with care and support needs within organisational and legislative frameworks or assessments from other professionals. You will work closely with external partners and providers of social care reviewing care plans and care provision and responding accordingly to any Safeguarding concerns. Work is face paced but never boring, you will use skills that would be gained through formal qualifications and/or considerable relevant work experience. Roles at this level are expected to work unsupervised for much of the time, accessing and assessing information independently and can be undertaken by telephone, face to face in the community, office base or in service users home.
Key Responsibilities:
• To work within the community Mental Health Recovery and Social Care Reviewing team to provided support and intervention for people with severe and enduring mental illness within the remit of adult social care within the integrated team. To work as part of MDT around the person to promote mental wellbeing, reduce and mitigate risk and promote positive outcomes for service uses.
• To work with service users and families/carers to provide advice and support, assess risk and care needs of service users under the Care Act 2014 and S117 MHA to develop a framework for care plans/programme of intervention to meet their needs. To provide support to service users and providers to help maintain packages of support and resolve issues when they arise to avoid breakdown in care.
• To identify Safeguarding concerns and respond appropriately, contributing to both NHS and Local authority Safeguarding enquiries.
• With support of senior’s and social workers carry out Mental Capacity Assessments and Best Interest decision making.
• To undertake a full range of social care and statutory tasks, provide social care knowledge within the integrated team.
• To provide timely review in line with N-Somerset organisational procedures/polices, statutory duties and Avon & Wiltshire Partnership.
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.
This position is currently based at The Coast Resource Centre Worle.
Work Style
At North Somerset Council, we offer a hybrid working environment based on four distinct work styles. Depending on the role and personal circumstances, you will fall into one of these categories. However, please note that during the induction period, it may be necessary to spend more time in the office to support your learning and development. We are flexible and open to discussions about your preferred working style, and if you wish to be in the office more frequently, this can be negotiated.
This role falls into the category of Flexible Worker which means you can expect to work in the following way:
Flexible Worker – Remove heading
• 2-3 days in the office
• Works both from home and the office, depending on the task at hand.
• Training is provided to help balance work-life and manage time effectively, with an emphasis on communication for team touchpoints and planning in-office days for collaboration.
About You
We are looking for an individual who is passionate about Social Care and Mental Health, and who possesses the following skills and experience:
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