Social Worker - Older Person Mental Health Team

Social Worker - Older Person Mental Health Team
Job description
37 hour per week
This is an exciting time to join our Older People’s Mental Health Team (OPMHT) based in Quarella Road in Bridgend. The Older People’s Mental Health Team is a multi-disciplinary team who provide services to individuals who are in receipt of Secondary Care as defined by the Mental Health (Wales) Measure 2010. As a Social Worker within the team, you will be expected to work jointly and collaboratively alongside health colleagues. We are co-located and work closely with a team of Community Mental Health Nurses, Mental Health Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists.
As a team, we also work closely with Angleton Clinic. Angleton Clinic is located on the Glanrhyd Hospital site in Bridgend, providing an inpatient service for older people with serious and enduring mental illness and dementia.
As a Social Worker in the OPMH team, you will provide a strengths-based, outcome focused and enabling response to adults affected by Mental Health conditions who are over the age of 65 years old. The people we support can have long term complex challenges around their Mental Health, physical health, and emotional well-being. You will be expected to undertake complex case work with individuals and their careers.
As a team, we undertake holistic assessments and collaboratively work together with the individual and those important to them to improve their quality of life. We support individuals to achieve their outcomes and develop person centred Care and Treatment Plans. We strive to create an effective team around the person with a multi-disciplinary approach to ensure their needs and identified outcomes are met. Your role will involve being an allocated Care Coordinator for individuals in receipt of secondary Mental Health services as detailed within Part 2 of the Mental Health (Wales) Measure 2010.
As Care Coordinator, you will be appointed to work with individuals to coordinator their care and treatment and co-produce outcome focused Care and Treatment Plans. Your role will include undertaking risk assessments and promoting individuals’ rights by ensuring their wishes are considered. Your role will include promoting the independence and wellbeing of individuals, their families, and carers, focusing on ‘what matters’ to people. Where practicable, you will focus on prevention and self-management, enabling individuals to sustain independence through a combination of assessment, care and support and other practical interventions.
You will ensure choice and control for individuals and place the person at the centre of their care. You will ensure that the person’s voice and choice will be heard.
Applicants should note that an enhanced criminal records check by the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) will be necessary for the successful applicant.
We are a supportive and welcoming team. As a team we are ambitious in looking to develop innovative and creative ways to support the individual and those important to them. 
We encourage informal conversation or visit prior to interview.
For further information please contact:
Laura Griffiths (Team Manager) – Laura.Griffiths2@bridgend.gov.uk
The ability to greet customers through the medium of Welsh is a requirement for this post.
Protecting children, young people or adults at risk is a core responsibility of all council employees.
Criminal records check by the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) is a requirement for this post.
A valid driving licence is requirement for this post.
Closing Date: 24 April 2024
Shortlisting Date: 26 April 2024
Interview Date: 07 May 2024
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