Job Title – Mental Health Social Worker
Employer – Trafford Council
Address – Trafford Town Hall, Talbot Road, Stretford, M32 0TH
Salary – £30,451 - £32,910
Salary Grade – Band 7
Job category – Adult Social Care
Job Type – Social Worker
Working Pattern – Full-time
Working hours – 9-5pm
Contract type – Fixed term contract ends March 2022.
Closing date – 12th September 2021
Interview date – TBC
About us
Trafford Council and its partners in the public, private and third sectors are embarking on a Vision which sees us working together to close inequality gaps and maximise Trafford’s huge potential. Our vision is working together to build the best future for all our communities and everyone in Trafford
Trafford really is a great place to work. With a positive permission culture, we embrace innovation and encourage performance. We’re keen to recruit someone with the right values and behaviours that can help us ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do
We currently have an exciting vacancy within our Adult Community Mental Health Teams (North and South Localities) to enable us to strengthen our response to people experiencing mental health difficulties either caused by or exacerbated by COVID 19. You will bring new and innovative ways of meeting assessed needs and promoting positive outcomes for service users and their families and carers.
Social Work values and experience are highly valued in our mental health settings. A committed and passionate individual will compliment the existing CMHT staff group.
About you
Your style and approach will reflect our values and behaviours: you will be committed to continually learning & improving the way you do things to ensure effective outcomes; valuing and respecting others’ contribution, you will work with other professionals and colleagues to deliver the best possible service; you will take ownership of your actions and strive to getting things right first time and learn from when things do go wrong; you will enjoy taking personal responsibility to resolve issues and change what you do and how you do it to make a difference.
Your social work values and experience will enhance the rights-based approach to mental health care and support, you will deliver a solution based, outcomes focus to assessed need. You will be a highly motivated, want to make a difference pursuing learning opportunities to develop your skills and role.
About the Role
You will be a skilled and reflective practitioner able to work alongside service users to make robust assessments and care plans which mitigate the impact of the pandemic on individual’s mental health. You will provide rapid, effective access to support. You will work with people on a short-term basis to resolve their difficulties preventing any further worsening of their situation and to prevent crises.
You will work as a member of the CMHT promoting social work values and you will be confident working in multi-agency settings to develop care plans that include contributions from all agencies.
You will be joining a highly supportive and motivated team with a commitment to learning and practice development. You will receive regular supervision.
(Additional Information)
Some flexibility may be required outside core hours.
About the benefits
You will be welcomed into a friendly environment where your personal and professional development will be encouraged. You will have the opportunity to work and grow in a people-centred and values based organisation that promotes a positive permission culture. Your opinions matter so you will have the opportunity to shape how we do things here at Trafford.
Trafford recognises the importance of staff wellbeing and offer a number of initiatives for staff including mindfulness, mental health first aiders, running & walking groups and health and wellbeing events.
Our great benefits include:
Pension
Home Technology Scheme
Car Lease Scheme
Cycle to Work scheme
Simply Healthcare
Employee Discount Scheme - 'Perks at Work'
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