Adult Social Worker – Mental Health Drug & Alcohol Team

Global Healthcare Jobs, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for an Adult Social Worker within the Mental Health Drug & Alcohol Team to work full time based in Pembrokeshire.

The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £36,298 per annum.

Main duties:

• To assess, and/or co-ordinate the assessments of the strengths and needs of users and their primary carers using the established assessment format, together with the department’s criteria for service provision within the legislative and regulatory framework.
• Develop and cost packages of care which are flexible, cost effective and responsive to the changing needs of the individual. Promote independence, self determination and the maximum choice through access to a range of services provided by the independent and statutory sectors.
• To undertake specialist social work care planning including the provision of direct specialist social work interventions.
• To contribute to the management of the adult care budget and the maintenance of expenditure within set budget limits.
• To ensure that individuals have the information made available to them in an appropriate format which enables them to make informed choices.
• To actively work in partnership with colleagues from other agencies.
• To review and/or co-ordinate the review of care packages on a regular basis and facilitate changes as necessary.
• To identify service deficiencies and pass this information to the line manager.
• To participate in all training opportunities as deemed appropriate.
• When two years post qualified, undertake to qualify and tale on the role of practice assessor and/or practice facilitator for social work students on placement.

Requirements of this Social Worker job:

• A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Continual professional development.
• Social Work England registered.

Benefits

• Generous Annual Leave of up to 30 days
• Membership of the Local Government ‘career average’ defined benefit pension scheme
• Flexible and agile working options
• A wide range of resources to support your health and wellbeing, including a professional in-house occupational health service and access to counselling services.
• Generous occupational maternity and paternity pay plan, on top of statutory benefits.
• Access to employee discounts on a range of products, services and attractions including leisure centres.
• Salary sacrifices car and cycle schemes.
• Generous relocation package up to GBP 8,000 – which could include for example rent in lieu of a planned house purchase, removal and storage fees and legal/mortgage arrangement fees for house purchase.

Contact:
This Social Worker job is advertised by Zehnn Young; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients’ requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Global Healthcare Jobs is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.

Global Healthcare Jobs takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Global Healthcare Jobs is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.