Job summary
- Main area
- Mental health Liaison Team
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 6 months
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 334-CLI-6388512
- Employer
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lewisham Hospital
- Town
- Lewisham
- Salary
- £51,488 - £57,802 per annum incl. of HCAs
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
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Social Worker / AMHP
NHS AfC: Band 7
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.
The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.
As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
A secondment opportunity has arisen. The post holder will deliver, or advise on the delivery of, high quality safe
nursing care, ensuring consistently high standards of practice and clinical
excellence which comply with their professional body code of professional conduct.
Your professional and personal development will include further postgraduate study and you will be encouraged and supported by your line manager to undertake Master’s programmes.
Main duties of the job
As a Social Worker / AMHP you will promote and
develop clinical leadership and clinical practice and be a positive role model to junior members of the team through the practice of evidence-based care. You will be expected to support professional development through clinical appraisal and supervision and contribute to the ongoing educational programme for staff, fostering a positive learning environment. You will be expected to support patients with their social needs.
Working for our organisation
This well established and developing service attracts international placements and joint Service Development with our local Acute Trust.
We are a team of Nurses, Doctors, Occupational Therapist, Dual Diagnosis Practitioner, Social Worker and Clinical Psychologist working with people who present in mental health crisis to University Hospital Lewisham and we work collaboratively with the Mental Health for Older Adults Team and Perinatal Mental Health Team.
You will be based at University Hospital Lewisham, Lewisham High Street, Lewisham, London, SE13 6LW
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Provide coordination and management of all referrals to the team,
prioritising response time’s dependant on the nature of the referral.
• Be required to make clear decisions, based on an analysis of complex
presenting problems and judgement about available options. This will
include those related to the admission and discharge of patients.
• Utilise a wide variety of clinical skills appropriate to the needs of individual patients and the clinical setting in which they are required to be seen.
• Carry out robust assessments, care planning and discharge planning. Have an ability to engage challenging and /or acutely distressed patients in
potentially hostile and/or antagonistic situations.
Support the biopsychosocial needs of those who present to ED or on medical wards.
Person specification
Educations and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- CQSW qualification / Social Work degree
- AMHP qualification
- Evidence of recent continued professional Development
Desirable criteria
- Masters Degree
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in Liaison Services
- Experience of working in a multi-cultural environment and knowledge of methods to develop culturally sensitive practice.
- Experience of working with other patients who have a variety of social care needs
- Experience of working with patients who are experiencing mental health issues due to homelessness
- Knowledge of the mental health act and mental capacity act to support the best care for patients who are experiencing crisis
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to gather and use data to analyse complex issues/problems, and exercise sound judgement in reaching the most appropriate conclusions.
- Ability to build and maintain high standards of professional links and communication channels with a variety of personnel and agencies.
- Appreciation of the complexities of variety of the AMHP / Social Worker’s role within Liaison and how to balance clinical and non-clinical responsibilities.
- Ability to manage own workload effectively and efficiently.
- Ability to build and maintain high standards of professional links and communication channels with a variety of personnel and agencies, to provide the best care for patients who present in crisis
Desirable criteria
- Proven ability to maintain a balance between strategic and operational management.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Janet Spencer
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07736 458 216
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