Social Work Assistant

3 months ago


Chichester, United Kingdom Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust Full time

We are currently recruiting a Social Work Assistant to join our busy Forensic Social Work department.

These will include issues such as benefits, housing and debt, as well as supporting clients in a practical way to return home to a safe environment. In return, we offer a stimulating and supportive work environment, supervision, opportunities for personal and professional development, full trust induction and training.

To work with the Social Work team across the three wards of the Chichester Centre to provide support to patients with a wide variety of social care tasks including welfare benefits, financial difficulties, housing matters, home visits and practical issues on admission/discharge, carer liaison and support.

Liaison with the multidisciplinary team, families and outside agencies such as housing and police.

Core hours will be during office hours; may need some flexibility.

The ability to travel is essential for this role.

The Chichester Centre is a purpose built, Low Secure Unit in Chichester, West Sussex offering Secure Recovery.

**Communication and Relationship Skills**:

- Provide and receive information from/to clients, client’s representatives and immediate team colleagues
- Good written communication skills
- Good interpersonal skills
- Be able to communicate effectively with other organisations
- Exchange factual information with clients using persuasion, reassurances, tact and empathy
- Overcome barriers to understanding that may be a result of mental illness

**Knowledge Training and Experience**:

- Follow procedures and practices that will require a base level of theoretical knowledge
- Knowledge of the Mental Health Act
- NVQ2 or above
- Knowledge of the welfare benefits system
- Knowledge of housing and housing benefits
- Knowledge of basic debt management

**Planning and Organisational Skills**:

- Ability to plan and organise own day-to-day tasks and activities
- Engage in supervision

**Physical Skills**:

- Undertake training to ensure safety and competence using appropriate equipment

**Patient/ Client Care**:

- To Implement patient care programmes under the supervision of qualified staff
- Record observations and collect specimens where appropriate

**Policy and Service**:

- Follow policies within the role
- Participate in discussions on proposed changes to procedures

**Financial and Physical**:

- Observe duty of care to equipment, resources, clients valuables or cash

**Human Resources**:

- Participate in the induction of new staff to the team, demonstrating own duties to new starters, bank and agency staff

**Information Resources**:

- Record personally generated information, contributing to the updating of patient records and reporting key information

**Research and Development**:

- Occasionally participate in audits, surveys, research and development activities

**Freedom to Act**:

- Act on own initiative when delivering care to clients.Within supervisory arrangements

**Physical Effort**:

- Lifting and handling of clients’ property

**Mental Effort**:

- Required to undertake frequent routine activities requiring concentration including predictable as well as unpredictable work

**Emotional Effort**:

- Work with clients that may frequently be highly distressing or emotionally difficult

**Working Conditions**:

- Occasional requirement to work with patients/clients in unpleasant conditions i.e. physically aggressive behaviour, smell, noise and body fluids
- Occasionally required to work in clients’ home environments which may be dirty and hazardous requiring care


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