Fixed Term Social Worker

TN United Kingdom; Manchester; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 39,000

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Priory Hospital Cheadle Royal, 100 Wilmslow Road, Manchester, SK8 3DG

Priory Group Division

up to £38,500 DOE

Hours: 37.5

Vacancy Type: Fixed Term - Full Time

Job Advert Location Description

• To provide expertise and leadership in Safeguarding.
• To bring clear focus on the rights of all service users and their families, including the ability to investigate, evaluate and learn from allegations to improve safety, dignity and compassion within the unit.
• To work as part of the Multi-disciplinary Team focusing on prevention, early intervention, building resilience and self-care, reducing and delaying dependency.
• To undertake assessments, care plans and where required Tribunal Report to determine eligibility and support the access to services under relevant social care framework.
• Within assessments and interventions, identify and address social exclusions, its causes and effects on mental wellbeing and mental health.
• To work with service users to resolve their own problems and make their own sustainable support arrangements, which might include social care and health resources.
• To work in partnership with service users wherever possible, shifting from the professional being ‘on top’ to ‘on tap’ - a resource and collaborator, not a controller.
• To promote empowerment, equality and social inclusion.
• To promote a social model with a bio/psycho/social holistic approach to care planning and recovery.
• To work alongside the service user and their carers supporting them with issues including housing, employment and finances, striving to support social inclusion.
• Enable service users, as far as possible, to be fully involved in their care and treatment, supporting them to contribute to the design and delivery of future services taking into account ‘no decision about me without me’ intentions of the Health and Social Care Act 2012.
• To work with service users to support their discharge in terms of planning, aftercare and community support as required.
• To promote carers’ rights and access to assessments and resources.
• Where required, be involved in statutory community and multi-agency partnership forums (Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangements MAPPA and Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conference).

Job Advert Role Description

What we are looking for in you…

We pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer and embrace a diverse workforce. We employ people from all walks of life because they embrace our hospitals values:

• Putting people first: We put the needs of our service users above all else.
• Being supportive: We support our employees, our service users and their families when they need us most.
• Acting with integrity: We are honest, transparent and decent. We treat each other with respect.
• Being positive: We see the best in our service users and each other and we strive to get things done. We never give up and we learn from our mistakes.
• Striving for excellence: For over 140 years, we have been trusted by our service users with their care. We take this trust seriously and constantly strive to improve the services we provide.

A career with Priory Cheadle Royal not only enables you to manage your own career pathway whilst paying a competitive salary, we also have a range of other benefits such as:

• Free on-site parking
• Subsidised meals
• Priory Perks discount portal
• Wellbeing committee
• Comprehensive Induction

We would welcome all applicants. If you can see yourself joining our team, apply to join now!

Division DBS info

Disclosure: All roles will be subject to a successful disclosure at an appropriate level from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), Access NI or Disclosure Scotland. We are an equal opportunities employer. Priory will cover the cost of a DBS check.