Social Worker (Mental Health Community Mental Health) Royal Edinburgh Hospital
Salary: £40,501 – £47,639 Hours: 36 Per Week, 52 weeks
We are looking to recruit highly motivated and enthusiastic Social Workers to our Community Rehabilitation Team within Mental Health.
Edinburgh is an exciting city and excellent opportunities exist to join us and contribute towards helping all our citizens flourish.
Edinburgh Health & Social Care Partnership is on a journey to transform the way in which Social Work delivers support and services to ensure that we support adults with mental illness to live as independently as possible.
We work effectively with our health colleagues and a broad range of partners to ensure that the most vulnerable within our city get the right service in the right place at the right time. We have a key priority to shift the balance of care and promote effective early intervention and preventative supports.
We are looking for qualified Social Workers, who are committed to making a real difference to people’s lives, who are energetic, imaginative, creative, and resilient. Trauma informed, relationships and strengths based social work is at the heart of our practice.
Working with colleagues across the Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership -including occupational therapy, and nursing – it is the Community Rehab Team’s goal to ensure people with severe and enduring illnesses receive the support necessary to increase independence in the community following periods of time spent in hospital, to prevent hospital admissions, and to enable safe, early discharge from rehabilitation wards.
We aim to achieve positive outcomes with the people we work with by adopting a highly co-ordinated, multi-disciplinary approach, ensuring the service user’s voice is central throughout the assessment and decision-making process.
CRT works in partnership with ward staff, consultants and other health colleagues, with the core team which currently includes care managers, community mental health nurses, occupational therapists, social workers and community care assistants.
The social workers will have an integral role in relationship building with service users, families and professionals in order to effectively assess and review the needs of people in the hospital and in the community, ensuing that risks of additional hospital readmissions are reduced, and that people are actively encouraged and supported to live as safely and independently as possible.
You will undertake a range of statutory tasks including assessments and support planning, risk assessment and risk management and Carers’ assessments. You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team and will support adults, their families, and carers, to balance the complex areas of risk and need with choice and rights. You will also be able to provide advice, support, guidance and, if necessary, interventions, should an adult be at risk of harm and in need of protection under the Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act 2007 or Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000. You will work in a supportive, well-established team and have regular supervision and training.
This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check. Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.
We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce where everyone feels valued and able to be their best. We particularly encourage applications from women for senior roles, as well as people from minority ethnic backgrounds, people with disabilities or neurodivergent people, care experienced people, carers and LGBT+ people across all levels of the organisation, all of whom are currently underrepresented. All applicants will be considered fairly based on skills and experience. Disabled and care-experienced applicants who meet the minimum job criteria will be guaranteed an interview.
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As part of our goal to improve organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure we’re recruiting the best people. We’re interested not only in your skills and experience but also in your approach to work. Therefore, part of our interview process will be an assessment of how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.
You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours – The City of Edinburgh Council
Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.
Happy to talk flexible working.
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