Senior Practitioner
Caerphilly County Borough Council
- Location: Old School Building, Mill Road, Caerphilly
- Contract Type: Permanent
- Full-time
- Working Hours: 37 Hours (7.24 Monday – Friday)
- Team: Community Mental Health Team
We are recruiting a Senior Practitioner at Caerphilly County Borough Council.
We pay an attractive salary of £44,253 – £47,665 and offer access to training and development opportunities. This post attracts a Market Supplement of £2,995 per annum, in addition to the annual salary, which will be paid in 12 monthly installments.
The South Community Mental Health Team are looking to recruit a full-time Senior Practitioner in a permanent position. The postholder will work with service users aged 18 and over who have mental health needs. The team is multi-disciplinary, dynamic and forward-thinking, and the successful candidate will be required to practice in accordance with National Occupational Standards for Social Work and the Code of Practice for Social Care Workers to deliver assessment and care management services.
You will need to have a good understanding of current legislation and policy. You will also be required to work closely with carers, other professionals, and team members or alone using your own initiative. You will have a varied role and the ability to deal with crisis situations and facilitate safe discharge for service users from hospital into the community. You will be expected to support and safeguard vulnerable service users through difficult periods in their lives, therefore effective communication and organisational skills are essential.
The successful applicant must possess a Diploma / Degree in Social Work or a predecessor qualification and Post Qualifying Awards for Consolidating Practice and Enabling Practice or equivalent. If you do not hold the Approved Mental Health Professional Award you will be expected to undertake this training in order to fulfil the role.
Applicants must be registered as a Social Worker with Social Care Wales. The current registration requirements state that the completion of the Consolidation of Practice qualification within your first 3 years of practice is mandatory (if you qualified after 1st April 2016). Failure to successfully complete this qualification will result in you being unable to renew your Social Work Registration or practice as a Social Worker.
Key requirements and responsibilities
- Knowledge of the current social care legislative framework and national drivers within social work and social care including Social Services and Wellbeing Act Wales (2014), Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity, Mental Health (Wales) Measure 2010, and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards.
- Knowledge of assessment and care planning processes for working with vulnerable adults and children and their carers.
- Full UK Category B (Cars) driving licence and the use of a motor vehicle insured for business / work purposes to travel throughout the borough to visit clients and attend meetings.
We have excellent benefits including the Local Government Pension Scheme, agile working patterns, and staff discount schemes.
We are legally required to ask you to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK. Successful applicants are required to provide appropriate documentation such as a birth certificate, passport, or work permit in accordance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974), and a comprehensive screening process will be undertaken on all successful applicants. This will include an enhanced check with the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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