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Older People's Mental Health Practice Lead Social Worker
4 months ago
Older People's Mental Health Practice Lead Social Worker
Location: Slough
Post Pay Level: 8 - 44,428 to 49,498 plus 1039 Local Weighting Allowance per annum
Reports to: Service Manager
DBS Requirement: Yes
Main Purpose of Job:
As the OPMH Practice Lead, you will provide professional leadership and support to a team of qualified and unqualified staff within the Older People's Mental Health Service. Your role is crucial in delivering the key strategic aims of the organization, ensuring high-quality outcomes for service users through effective practice and case management of complex caseloads.
Main Accountabilities:
- Undertake social work on allocated cases, producing outcome-based plans for adults, their carers, and families.
- Demonstrate expert and effective practice in complex situations.
- Manage a complex case load and offer expert opinions within the organization and to others.
- Chair meetings, offer support to case conferences, and produce high-quality assessments and reports.
- Ensure ongoing work, support plans, and care packages are reviewed in accordance with policies and contractual agreements.
- Conduct investigations and prepare reports for panels, case conferences, and senior managers.
- Participate in routine auditing activity to secure the highest possible standards of social work practice and record keeping.
- Identify targets for staff, monitor performance, and take corrective action where necessary.
- Develop and maintain effective working relationships with partner agencies to ensure services are provided in accordance with assessed need.
- Maintain accurate records using the RIO health record system.
- Liaise with finance and benefits teams, ensuring compliance with the charging process.
- Contribute to the development of services for older people with mental health problems.
Experience:
- Significant experience of working with older people with mental health conditions and families in a community setting: Essential
- Experience of carrying out personalized assessments, support planning, commissioning of care services, monitoring, and reviewing: Essential
- Experience of working with a range of partners, both statutory and within the community, and ensuring effective use of resources: Essential
- Experience of undertaking risk assessments and developing risk management plans: Essential
- Significant experience of supervision, from the point of qualification onwards, to reflect on practice, assessment, and care planning: Essential
Skills and Abilities:
- Excellent analytical skills, casework assessment, interventions, and skills to develop outcome-based plans: Essential
- Working within an MDT setting with health and social care priorities: Essential
- Excellent verbal, written, and IT skills: Essential
- Communicating clearly and effectively with vulnerable customers in a non-judgmental, non-discriminatory way: Essential
- Ability to undertake complex social work with vulnerable older people in the community: Essential
- Maintain clear and effective caseload reporting, complete risk assessments, and care plans: Essential
- Ability to work on own initiative and exercise judgment: Essential
- Experience of balancing complex workloads and setting priorities: Essential
- Demonstrable ability to work effectively and contribute to the management of the team: Essential
- Work within a changing and complex environment providing services to vulnerable people: Essential
- High standards of personal and professional conduct: Essential
- Commitment to continuous professional development: Essential
- Active evidence of working in a person-centered approach: Essential (
Knowledge and Understanding:
- Understanding of the statutory framework relating to the assessment of need and provision of services for Older People with Mental Health: Essential
- Appreciation of the significance of IT and information systems to social care: Essential
- Understanding and commitment to equality and diversity: Essential
- Equal treatment and anti-discriminative policies and practices working in ethnically and culturally diverse communities: Essential
- Knowledge and understanding of local resource and community networks and how these fit into modern social work practice: Essential
Qualifications:
- Recognized Social Work qualification approved by Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC): Essential
- Current valid registration with HCPC: Essential
- Driving License with access to a car on a daily basis: Essential
How to Apply: Please submit your application, including a cover letter and resume, detailing your experience and addressing the essential and desirable criteria outlined above for more information PLEASE CONTACT Callum Parr at Ackerman Pierce recruitment agency on (phone number removed)
Slough is an equal opportunity employer and encourages candidates from all backgrounds to apply.
