Mental Health Social Worker

**Salary: £34,809 - £44,628

**Hours: Full time, 36 hours
**Contract: Permanent
**Annual Leave: 29 Days
**Location: Hybrid working**

**About the Role**

An recent opportunity has become available to work as a Social Worker in the Royal Borough of Kingston's Mental Health Social Care Team (MHSC Team).

The MHSC Team work to meet the statutory duties of the local authority under relevant legislation, for people whose primary care need is related to their mental health. We also work with adults with autism who do not have an associated learning difficulty, and young people transitioning into adulthood.

As a Mental Health Social Worker, your responsibilities will include**:

- Undertaking statutory duties related to the care of adults and of their carers as defined in the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005 and Mental Health Act 1983
- Managing a caseload of complex cases for assessment, safeguarding, and review under the above legislation
- Undertaking regular duty on the team's duty rota
- Undertaking mental capacity assessments
- Liaise closely with key partners in Health, other teams within the local authority and others as relevant

For more information on the role please refer to the job description.

If you wish to have an informal chat about the role, please contact Karin Slack, Team Manager on

**About Us**

The Royal Borough of Kingston's Mental Health Social Care Team is specialist team within the local authority's Adult Social Care department (ASC). We work to assess the social care needs of adults with mental health issues under the Care Act, and other relevant legislation, and to put in place appropriate services to meet these needs. This can take the form of purchasing specialist supported accommodation, or putting in place care packages to support adults at home. We work closely with professionals in the South West London Mental Health NHS Trust, who are one of our key partners. In addition to this, we work with young people transitioning into adulthood, and those with autism. The team also incorporates the Borough's AMHP service. The team is based at Woodroffe House,Tolworth Hospital, but since the beginning of lockdown, has been working mainly from home and have introduced hybrid working into the service.

**About You**

There is an expectation that all social workers working within the adult mental health team hold the qualification of Approved Mental Health Professionals (AMHP) and Best Interest Assessor (BIA) or be willing to undertake training and do so on completion of 2 years post-qualification practice.

It is desirable for the successful applicant to have experience of working within local authority social care and experience of working with people with mental health problems, autism and young people in transition to adulthood.

**Our Offer To You**

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As an organisation that values and nurtures talent, we're committed to helping you fulfil your potential and will offer you a supportive, friendly and collaborative environment to grow and develop your career and skills. We're constantly striving to improve our ways of working so putting your ideas across however big or small; will be fully encouraged and supported by your colleagues and our dynamic and experienced management team.

In addition we offer a modern and flexible working environment for our staff supported by our IT infrastructure, Google Chromebooks and Google Apps, which have acted as a key enabler for collaborative and streamlined working. The COVID-19 pandemic has required us to be even more flexible in how we work and manage staff workloads, ensuring they have the correct equipment and resources to be able to maximise their talents and looking after their wellbeing.

Employees have access to a wide range of benefits, some of which include:

- Generous annual leave entitlement plus bank holidays (pro-rata if part-time working hours apply)
- Three volunteering days per year
- Flexible and agile working arrangements
- Comprehensive learning and development programme
- Discounts on a range of local shops, restaurants, gyms and leisure centres
- Interest free season ticket loans
- Local Government Pension Scheme
- Bicycle loan facilities and cycle to work scheme
- Zip car scheme
- Free eye tests and contribution towards glasses
- Confidential wellbeing and counselling support
- Subsidised gym membership