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About the Role
As a Social Worker working with older adults experiencing mental health problems, you will undertake need and risk assessments, establish service users’ eligibility, and generate and review care plans. You will identify carers and appraise their support plans, highlight, investigate, and manage safeguarding issues, and maintain up-to-date records. You will attend supervision sessions focusing on workload management and professional development. You will stay current with legislation, governmental policies, and departmental procedures, attending relevant conferences and contributing to multi-disciplinary team meetings, ward rounds, liaison groups, and case reviews. If approved as an AMHP in Westminster, you will contribute to the borough’s duty rota system for Mental Health Act requests, referrals, and assessments, maintain key competencies, and undertake mandatory AMHP training. You will also act as a Practice Assessor for students and, if qualified as a Best Interest Assessor, participate in managing BIA assessments.
Responsibilities
- Undertake need and risk assessments
- Establish service users’ eligibility
- Generate and review care plans
- Identify carers and appraise their support plans
- Highlight, investigate, and manage safeguarding issues
- Maintain up-to-date records of all work
- Attend supervision sessions with line manager
- Keep abreast of the latest legislation, governmental policies and departmental procedures
- Attend local social work conferences
- Contribute to multi-disciplinary team meetings, ward rounds, liaison groups and case reviews
- Keep up to speed with the latest developments and issues related to practice
- Manage Mental Health Act requests, referrals and assessments
- Maintain key competencies as an AMHP
- Undertake minimum mandatory AMHP-related training
- Act as a Practice Assessor for students
- Take part in the system of managing BIA assessments
Requirements
- Well-developed experience of working with adults from a diverse range of ethnic and cultural groups living with severe and enduring mental health problems
- Well-developed knowledge of the Department’s statutory responsibilities, including child and adult protection procedures
- Practical understanding of current legislation and guidance, including the Mental Health Act 1983, the Care Act 2014, the Mental Capacity Act 2005, and the Children’s Act 1989
- Confident written and verbal communicator
- Ability to work with a diverse range of multi-disciplinary statutory and non-statutory teams and professionals
- Capability of applying the principles of equal opportunities to duties
- Calm under pressure
- Ability to prioritise workload
- Ability to evaluate practice
- Accept constructive criticism from colleagues
- Committed to treating service users with respect and dignity
- Adopt a culturally sensitive approach considering the needs of the whole person
- Flexible approach to diary management
- Willingness to occasionally extend working day if required
- Confident user of IT systems and software
- Capable of teaching, mentoring and assessing junior colleagues and learners
- Meet essential criteria for the role (for Care Leavers)
- Declared a disability and meet essential criteria (for Disability Confident Employer)
Skills
- Strengths-based approach
- Person-centred approach
- Creative therapy
- Art therapy
- Mental health social work
- Risk assessment
- Care planning
- Safeguarding
- Record keeping
- Workload management
- Professional development
- Legislation awareness
- Policy awareness
- Multi-disciplinary collaboration
- Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP)
- Best Interest Assessor (BIA)
- Practice Assessor
- IT systems and software proficiency
- Teaching
- Mentoring
- Assessing
Location
- Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, Westminster, SW1E 6QP
Work Type
- Permanent
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Negotiable depending upon experience
Education Level
- Degree or equivalent in Social Work
- Registered with Social Work England
- Hold (or be prepared to attain) an Approved Mental Health Professional qualification
- Hold (or be prepared to attain) a Best Interest Assessor qualification
- Hold (or be prepared to attain) a Practice Assessor qualification
Salary/Compensations
- £44,331 - £48,402 per annum
Benefits
- Working a range of flexible working patterns
- Agile working
About the Company
- Adult Social Care in Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories, where passionate, caring and committed professionals do brilliant work every day.
- Westminster is an amazing place, home to over 200,000 residents, over 50,000 businesses, and where three-quarters-of-a-million people work.
- Westminster City Council is one where communities are at the heart of decision-making and help determine the city’s future.
- By working directly with communities and partners, we build a more inclusive city that celebrates diverse communities, where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds feel welcome and safe.
- Westminster City Council prides itself on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice.
- We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing.
- We aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is Our Westminster Way.
- As a forward-thinking Council, we appreciate that people work in different ways.
Equal Opportunity
- We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve.
- The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application, we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job.
- If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.