Social Worker (Adult Community Mental Health) RBKC604534
Job description
Job Summary:
Salary range: £39,615 - £47,736 per annum
Work location: London
Hours per week: 36
Contract type: Permanent
Vetting requirements: Enhanced DBS Check
Closing date: 21st November 2022
Interview date: Week commencing 28th November 2022
About Us:
Shape our service around the users
Based in the lively Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, home of Notting Hill Carnival, Chelsea Flower show, substantive history, lively communities and a key destination for international visitors, the health and social care services offer support to diverse populations across the borough.
Including people living in some of the nation’s most advantaged and deprived wards, we work closely with Westminster City Council in sustained joined-up health and social care services that put residents at their heart.
We are delighted to offer an opportunity to work in this exciting and historic borough for a motivated and innovative Social Worker.
The Role:
This is an opportunity to bring your ideas as well as your experience to a dynamic social work team. We’re currently transforming the way we deliver mental health services, putting even great emphasis on integrated health and social care. Day to day, you’ll shape our offering around mental health service users, generating care and support plans, and identifying and addressing safeguarding issues. You’ll be backed by significant investments in the service that ensure it is well staffed and resourced. At Kensington and Chelsea, you’ll receive a high level of input to your training and development, as well as exceptional support from your peers.
Please refer to the Job Description for more information
About You:
You’ll be a qualified and registered social worker, with sound experience of working with adult users from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds, and a strong interest in mental health. You’ll be ready to work as part of a large and complex team delivering person-centred support.
You’ll bring a wide range of skills and strategies to every situation and be able to apply them flexibly and creatively. Strong communication skills are key, and you’ll also be adept at coaching and mentoring others to help develop a strong and expert team.
Newly Qualified Social Workers (ASYE) are welcome to apply.
In return, you can look forward to a package that includes a competitive salary, a high-quality pension scheme, travel allowance and generous annual leave plus bank holidays.
Please apply online explaining how you meet the requirements set out in the person specification and job description. CV’s alone will not be considered for this role.
Application process
Please do not upload any documents, including CVs/Covering Letters or supporting statements, as these documents will not be reviewed and could result in your application not being shortlisted.
You should describe how you meet the person specification requirements for the position you are applying for in Section G of the application form.
Additional information
We are committed to promoting equality and respecting diversity and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
We are a Disability Confident Employer – committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.
We engage our staff with a variety of learning types including face-to-face and virtual learning because we want to ensure our staff understand our values and behaviours, grow their skills and develop their careers.
This post is covered by the Fluency Duty, as outlined in the Code of Practice on the English language requirements for public sector workers.
We do not accept speculative CVs from any source.
Please note, we will primarily contact candidates by e-mail throughout the recruitment process, please monitor your email junk / spam folder as our system generated emails may be allocated to these folders by your email settings.
If you experience difficulties with the recruitment application process, please contact the recruitment team by email: recruitment@rbkc.gov.uk
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