Band 6 Perinatal Social Worker/Practitioner

Seven Social Care is looking for a qualified Social Worker, for a vacancy within an NHS Perinatal Parent Infant Mental Health Service.

The role:

We are looking for a qualified Social Worker or Occupational Therapist to provide mental health interventions to pregnant women and/or their partners/significant others. As a member of the multidisciplinary Perinatal Parent Infant Mental Health Service, the post holder will work constructively with colleagues to ensure a carefully planned ‘safety network’ of care is available for parents and babies.

As a member of the multidisciplinary team, the post holder will work collaboratively with multiagency colleagues to ensure a carefully planned ‘safety network’ of care is available for parents and babies.

Key Responsibilities:

• To manage a caseload of service users open to the perinatal service, offering a range of interventions, for a stated limited period
• Ensuring assessment, support/care-plans and intervention is shared and agreed with relevant individuals and agencies
• To plan care in association with other members of the multi-disciplinary team, involving involve service user, and where appropriate carers in the care planning and care delivery, having explained options and obtained consent to care and treatment
• To be responsible for organising and prioritising workload in the day to day allocation of work, responding to referrals as and when they present
• To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them
• To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes
• To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust register
• To ensure referrals to the team are processed and responded to accordingly, assessing and using professional judgement to assess level of need and urgency, as well as obtaining further information as required, determining appropriate intervention and proposed outcomes of intervention 

Applicant Requirements:

Qualifications:

• Degree in Social Work + registered with Social Work England

Experience:  Minimum of 4 years post qualifying experience in Social Work, with experience in Mental Health. Experience working within a perinatal service would be desirable.

Compliance: RTW in the UK with no restrictions

Hours: 37.5 hours p/w.

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