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SalaryJoining our Intermediate Care Team as a Qualified Social Worker, you’ll be innovative, person-centred and committed to working with adults in a strengths-based way. You’ll use your excellent relationship management skills to collaborate and negotiate with the people who use our service, their families, providers and other health care professionals, to proactively encourage independent and safe living within the community.
Our team form part of the Younger Adults Service. We work countywide alongside the Community Mental Health and Substance Misuse Social Care Teams and the Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) service. Our team, including AMHPs and Best Interest Assessors (BIAs), provides a unique breadth of expertise, enabling us to support with diverse and complex needs, focusing on:
- Transition from Children's Services/CAMHs to Adult Mental Health Social Care Services.
- Review of high-cost packages of care/provisions with a focus on creative, strengths-based interventions for the people who use our service.
- Enabling effective hospital discharge, ensuring complex needs and risks are assessed and care planned proportionately.
Take a look at our Candidate Pack for more information about the role, team and our values. The section ‘About you’ explains what specific knowledge, skills and experience we want you to tell us about. Make sure you explain how you meet these requirements and demonstrate our values, in your application.
Whether you’re an experienced Social Worker, looking to stretch yourself and take on a new challenge, returning to Social Work after a break, or recently qualified looking to kickstart your career, we would love to hear from you. Our newly qualified Social Workers are paid at £33,951 per annum, pro rata for the first year of employment.
Within our Adults’ Community Teams, we’re investing in creating the right conditions to ensure our Social Workers can work flexibly and are given the capacity to provide the excellent level of support and attention needed, to make a real difference to the lives of the people in our community. We believe our staff deserve to feel fulfilled professionally and enjoy a good balance between work and home life. We are committed to your continued personal development and offer an extensive Benefits Package.
We have a part-time permanent vacancy for 20.5 hours per week, or a full-time temporary vacancy for 24 months within our Intermediate Care Team. Please specify on your application which role(s) you’d like to be considered for.
Travel Requirements
You will be required to travel to various locations within Hampshire and the Isle of Wight or other local authority, and it is essential that you have a current drivers’ licence and access to a reliable vehicle on a regular basis.
