Duty Social Worker - Older People Mental Health

What will you be doing?

As Duty Social Worker within the triage team, you will:

•    Triage new referrals in partnership with Social Work Managers.

•    Work with older adults with complex and diverse mental health needs, including those known to secondary, specialist and forensic services.

•    Complete Care Act assessments and reviews, including complex safeguarding Work.

•    This includes completing multidisciplinary S117 reviews as well as pursuing joint 

support agreements with the ICB.

•    Manage enquiries when allocated Social Workers are absent, determining urgency and required action.

•    Respond to urgent referrals (as agreed with Social Work Managers), including visits assessments and support planning.

•    Facilitate timely transfer of cases from duty to community teams.

•    Provide social work expertise and consultation to colleagues across health and social care.

•    Work collaboratively in multi-disciplinary settings, including ward liaison and discharge planning.

•    Develop your skills in reflective practice and social work models within mental health

This is a fast-paced and rewarding role offering excellent opportunities to develop your professional expertise.

About you

Cambridgeshire County Council’s approach to social work and social care is proactive, reventative and personalised.  This is focused on holistic and creative solutions to enable individuals to meet their aspirations through the care and support planning process. You will be bringing this approach to the multi-disciplinary team, providing a social perspective to understanding people’s mental health challenges.

We are seeking an experienced, self-motivated, professionally curious, and innovative Social Worker who thrives in a fast-moving environment.

You will be:

•    Curious and perceptive, able to identify needs others may not see

•    Skilled at building positive and effective relationships

•    Creative in exploring solutions and possibilities

•    Confident in managing complexity and risk

You must:

•    Be a qualified Social Worker

•    Hold current registration with Social Work England

For a full list of the requirements of the role, please check out the Job Description & Person Specification.

Our benefits

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…

• A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
• 6 days of protected time each year to support in maintaining your Continuous Professional Development
• A relocation package of up to £8,000 (eligibility applies)
• A pay progression scheme to enable you to accelerate through the pay grade as you gain experience and skills
• A Refer a Friend Scheme where if you refer another Social Worker to us who is subsequently employed by us as a result of that introduction, we’ll pay you an introduction fee of £350
• Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth

For more information and to see our other benefits, take a look at the benefits brochure attached to this advert.

About us

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off.   We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered.  We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Through a Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we will offer an interview to all applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy. On your application form you can indicate you are disabled. Some examples of reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion. 

https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers