Sessional Social Work Liaison Officer

Salary: £30per hour
Full / Part Time: Part time
Hours of work: 9am – 5pm (3 days per week)

As one of the UK’s largest independent providers of mental health care pathways, providing high value integrated services to a wide range of individuals. We aim to offer personalised care to service users with psychological, emotional and addiction problems. For our hospital-based services, this spans medium security all the way to rehabilitation services, with a wide variety of specialist mental health, learning disability and personality disorder services offered at all stages of the pathway.

The Hospital is a 59 bed hospital offering specialist complex care for people with enduring mental health needs. Located just a few minutes’ walk from Beckton Station on the Docklands Light Railway which has a number of connections with the District and East London underground lines, together with the North London British Rail line. The hospital is divided into four wards, a female PICU, female low secure, New Dawn service for BPD and Female Learning Disability locked ward. We are clinical outcome focused and use a number of tools to evidence our excellent work with service users including the Recovery Star, HoNoS and MoHo with our Hansa, New Dawn and Bewick wards achieving STAR ward status.

A vacancy has arisen for a Sessional Social Work Liaison Officer to join our female learning disability team. The service is a locked ward which comprises of a 12-bed unit catering for adult women with a mild to moderate learning disability and challenging behaviour.

We are looking to recruit a sessional social worker who would be available to work 3 days a week.

Applicants should have at least 5 years post qualifying experience as a social worker. As a member of the multi-disciplinary team, your duties will include providing detailed assessments of clients, social support and welfare assistance of complex cases, support senior Social worker with safeguarding reviews / investigations and training to staff. You will be expected to write a variety of reports including CPA reports.

The successful applicants must hold a recognised social work qualification and be registered with the HCPC with evidence of relevant post-qualifying formal study. It’s essential that the successful applicant will have experience of working with service users with learning disabilities with mental health needs and also experience of working with their families. The successful Social Work Liaison Officer will work as part of a busy multidisciplinary team therefore previous experience in working within such an environment is required.