Job Introduction
This is a rare opportunity to be part of this specialist forensic service, and will provide opportunities to develop your knowledge, skills and your career.
You will be joining an experienced forensic social worker and a Team Manager/AMHP. They make up part of a larger integrated multidisciplinary team.
You will play a key role in facilitating discharge from secure hospitals, ensuring people’s social care needs are identified and met and taking on the role of social supervisor once people are conditionally discharged to the community. You will work in collaboration with health and criminal justice agencies to build and maintain relationships with individuals, ensure the public is safeguarded and enable people to achieve their goals.
You will have experience in mental health, learning disability or autism settings and experience of working with people who have complex and diverse needs and risks.
You will have successfully completed your assessed and supported year in employment (ASYE), experience of safeguarding practice and of utilising person-centred, strengths and rights-based approaches. Applications will be shortlisted in relation to Job Description/Person Specification, which should be addressed fully in your application.
The Social Worker in the Dorset Forensic Team plays a pivotal role in ensuring the delivery of high-quality adult social care within this specialist mental health service.
The Social Worker is responsible for the delivery of adult social care service for the adults with mental ill health who are being supported by the Dorset Forensic Team. They will offer expert advice, support, and supervision to team members, fostering professional growth and adherence to performance standards.
It is recommended that you contact the team to discuss the role further.
Please contact Alexander Molland if you wish to discuss this role on alexander.molland@bcpcouncil.gov.uk or 01202 584440
About BCP Council
BCP Council provides services to a diverse community of 400,000 residents and employs more than 5,000 people. Our area includes over 15 miles of beautiful world-renowned coastline. We can offer career defining roles to transform and improve services. By working with us, you can help deliver a vision of a thriving, word-class, prosperous and inclusive place for generations to come.
Our Benefits
We offer an excellent benefits package for further details see here
As a result of the creation of BCP Council in 2019, we are working on simplifying our terms and conditions of service and will be creating a single pay structure which is to be applicable for all employees. It is important to us that we offer benefits that our colleagues value as part of their total employment package and we are reviewing these to make sure we have it right. We have been in a process of collective bargaining since 2019 and have positively worked forward to reach an agreed position with the unions for the new contractual offer. This has taken longer than we hoped and therefore we are having to consider all alternative avenues available to enable us to remove inequality in the organisation as a result of bringing together 3 councils.
We are in the process of establishing a timescale for implementation, and all colleagues joining us will be included in these changes. We want to reassure everyone that whichever route is taken to reach the new terms and conditions, we can honour continuous service and there will not be any job reduction as a result of the implementation of Pay and Reward. If you have any questions at all about this process, please feel free to raise this with the hiring manager.
DBS
BCP Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the community and expects all staff and volunteers to share the same commitment. Applicants to this post will be required to complete the appropriate level of Disclosure & Barring Service Check. Please refer to the Job Description or Role Profile for more details.
