Senior Social Work Practitioner – Projects (Learning Disabilities and Mental Health)
Job Summary
Working Pattern:
Full time
Advert Start Date:
25/11/2022
Advert End Date:
Closed for applications on 06/01/2023 12:00
Job Category:
Social Care - Adult Service
Employment Location:
Adults and Integrated Care Services, Learning Disabilities and Mental Health Teams
Further Information
Senior Social Work Practitioner – Projects (Learning Disabilities and Mental Health)
Salary: £43,516 pa
Are you in a similar senior role or an experienced Social Worker looking to take that next step in your professional career – If so, we want to hear from you! In return, we will provide you with a comprehensive learning and development programme, and the opportunity to expand your PQ to support your future progression.
About Us: Adult Social Care is changing in South Tyneside. We are a forward-thinking Council that is developing innovative approaches to meet our challenges. Focusing on People, Place and Partnerships, this is a great time to join us. With our new Council Leadership, and a recent service review, we are developing a new 5-year Vision and Strategy for Adult Social Care to help support the next stage of our journey. Working closely with all our partners our vision for the future is to see every person in South Tyneside with care and support needs “Living Better Lives”, to fully utilise their strengths and assets, to remain safe and well; in the neighbourhoods and communities they call home. We want to work with all our partners to ensure the person only need tell their story once and that they have equal voice in co-ordinating their care and support. We understand promoting the importance of social justice and inclusion, respecting people’s rights, citizenship and participation.
Joining us at this time will ensure you are at the forefront of helping to develop and embed co-production and co-delivery, delivering new models of working through our Adult Social Care framework and contributing to our ambitious plans to fully embed our strengths-based practice, improve services and deliver better outcomes for the people of South Tyneside. We remain fully committed to supporting our staff to grow and develop, and we will provide you with the opportunity to use your skills and learn new ones. Through the development of our new Values and Behaviour Framework we will fully support staff to become Curious, Accountable, Responsive and Empowered (CARE).
To have an informal discussion regarding the role, please contact Tracey Bage, LD and MH Manager / AMHP Lead on (0191) 4244080 or Kirsty Rowe – Learning Disabilities Team Manager on (0191) 4244064.
About the Role: To further strengthen our Learning Disability and Mental Health Teams we are looking to recruit 2 additional Senior Social Work Practitioners to work with people on a targeted approach in order to deliver better outcomes through improved accommodation and support options. Working as part of a virtual project team, the roles will work with housing, commissioning, health, service improvement team and business intelligence colleagues to deliver better outcomes for people.
The roles will include providing intensive early intervention, reviewing high-cost packages of care and support, supporting improvements in service delivery and quality assurance as well as providing additional capacity for social work leaders during periods of change.
About You: Driven by research, innovation and the desire to develop best practice, you must demonstrate an applied knowledge of Adult Social Care legislation and the NHS Continuing Health Care Framework and be willing to undertake further bespoke learning and development.
Registered with Social Work England and having significant post qualification experience, you will want to continue practicing in a setting that believes that people are at their healthiest and happiest when they are supported to remain independent, close to the people they love and who love them, in the neighbourhoods and communities they call home.
This is a great opportunity for someone with the right drive and ambition to join our highly motivated team. The successful applicant will share our enthusiasm, contributing to and influencing improved performance at an individual, team and service level.
About South Tyneside: South Tyneside has a rich heritage and our history has played a major role in regional, national and even world history. It was a military strong hold for the Romans and an important centre for the early Christian church, where the Venerable Bede wrote his “Ecclesiastical History.” An area that was rich in coal with a key position on the River Tyne, it has a proud industrial and maritime past and was at the forefront of invention and innovation in these areas. The Jarrow Crusade of 1936 was a key event in the town’s proud history.
South Tyneside is also renowned for its friendly, vibrant communities, who have welcomed incomers for centuries, giving it a rich and diverse cultural heritage. Celts, Romans, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Vikings, the early 20th century arrival of the Arabs and more recently the settling of people from the Commonwealth, notably the Indian sub-continent, and the European Union reflect the present-day culture of South Tyneside.
Covering an area of 64 sq.m and a population of 151,000 living in 72,000 households South Tyneside includes the towns of South Shields, Hebburn and Jarrow and the villages of Boldon, Cleadon and Whitburn and is an outstanding place to live, invest and bring up families, nonetheless we are facing growing demand and new challenges around how to support people to stay independent and improve their wellbeing. The index of Multiple Deprivation 2019 ranks South Tyneside as the 31st most deprived local authority areas in England (out of 317), however there is a lot of variation in the levels of deprivation and affluence across the borough.
Our Director of Public Health uses hypothetical children Jack and Emily to demonstrate the differences the two children born on the same day, but from different parts of the borough, and what impact that had on their health and wellbeing as they developed as children into adulthood. Jack was born in the ward of Simonside and Rekendyke and Emily in Cleadon and East Boldon Ward. Their journeys through life are quite shockingly different, culminating in jack expecting to live 75 years and Emily 87 years; a whole 12 years longer.
We offer an excellent benefits package and further information is available here - www.southtyneside.gov.uk/workinghere
South Tyneside Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) disclosure will be sought along with other relevant pre-employment checks.
For those posts where there is a requirement to either work in or enter a Care Quality Commission Regulated Care Home (CQC) it would be preferred but optional, that you have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (unless medical exempt) as a condition of employment.
Closing date: Noon, 6 January 2023
Interviews will take place on 25 January 2023
Please note
This job is closed for applications.