social worker Liverpool, England
Job description
Introduction
Are you a Senior Social Worker looking to join a company that values and recognises you? If so, join the team at Victoria Gardens and Crossley Place as a Lead Social Worker and help people develop new skills and build a brighter future.
Working 37.5 hours a week alongside the multidisciplinary team, you be responsible for assessing the social care need of patients in secure care from a forensic perspective and be a principle provider of a quality Social Work Service to address those needs as outlined in patient care plans.
A range of training opportunities are available that can see your career grow and you achieve your career aspirations.
Our Lead Social Worker role involves:
- To ensure an accurate, up to date social history is available for each patient. (For own clinical case load and to ensure these are met for other members of the team.)
- With a patients’ permission, initiate and maintain contact with patients’ families and/or significant others offering support, information and where relevant to care plan, joint family/patient sessions.
- Ensure when it is part of an agreed care plan, participation in focused casework with individual patients.
- Ensure that patients’ have access to advice on financial, childcare and legal matters, acting in an advocacy role with the aim of empowering patients’ to be able to take more control over their lives.
- To take a leading role in promoting anti-discriminatory practice ensuring that issues relating to race, gender and sexual orientation are given appropriate consideration in the compilation of care plans.
- To develop, write and submit for approval, a departmental operational budget in accordance with the companies’ financial planning procedure.
To be successful as a Lead Social Worker you’ll need:
- Good working knowledge of the relevant legislation
- Minimum of 5 years post-qualification practice
- To be registered with the HCPC
- CQSW or CSS or Dip SW or Degree in Social Work
- Understand and champion the social perspective on mental health
- Good knowledge of the Care Programme Approach and Department of Health guidelines re discharge of psychiatric patients
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Excellent self-presentation in an articulate and pleasant manner
What you will get:
- Annual salary of £41,000 + Benefits
- The equivalent of 33 days annual leave – plus your birthday off!
- Free meals and parking
- Wellbeing support and activities
- Career development and training
- Pension contribution
- Life Assurance
- Enhanced Maternity Package
There is also a range of other benefits including retail discounts and special offers, car leasing without a credit check and much more
About your next employer:
You will be working for an established, stable and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move.
Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally.
The safety of our service users and colleagues is our priority and as such we encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19.
Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person’s individual responsibility and are committed to promoting and safeguarding the welfare of service users. Candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS disclosure.
