Social Worker / Approved Mental Health Professional

Job Introduction

Joining Our Team 

The Poole Adult Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) is looking for a full time Social Worker. The candidate will preferably be an Approved Mental Health Professional, Best Interest Assessor and Safeguarding Adults Practitioner, or must be willing to undertake training. Given the nature of this role it is a requirement for applicants to hold the necessary professional qualification, and registration to practice as a Social Worker in the UK through Social Work England. 

The CMHT support adults of working age (18 – 65) in the Poole area who have a serious and enduring mental illness. The team are based at Alderney Hospital in Poole and Social Work staff cover the Poole area.

What you can expect to be doing

You will work alongside a multi-disciplinary team of skilled and experienced professionals carrying out holistic, assessments of need and support, coupled with care and support planning and reviewing packages of care.

The successful candidate will need to have demonstrable experience, or keen interest, in working within a specialist service with knowledge of application of the Care Act, Mental Capacity Act and Mental Health Act. 

We are committed to working within a strengths-based model and as such continue to work within the principles of Fulfilling Lives in meeting our duties within the Care Act.

There is a commitment from the team, and management, to individual well being and we offer a number of opportunities to support development such as high-quality reflective supervision and peer reflection. Within some teams there are options to be supported along the Approved Mental Health Professional/Best Interest Assessor/Safeguarding Adults Practitioner pathways.

For an informal discussion regarding the role please contact Francesca Hetherington on 01202 123693.

Flexibility

We can offer opportunities for flexible working such as part-time or compressed hours (though you may need to work some unsocial hours, depending on your contract), and can consider the best location for you as we have hubs across Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole. We also support an element of home working as part of our agile hybrid model.

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.