Remedy Recruitment Group are currently seeking an experienced Qualified Social Worker to work within an Adult Mental Health Team for Islington Council.

Job Purpose

• Work in a multi-disciplinary mental health team alongside colleagues employed by the NHS and other agencies.
• Managing a caseload of service users suffering from mental illness and some with co-existing substance misuse.
• Provide a range of interventions either directly or through others to address service users mental health needs.
• To improve the service user's engagement with services and reduce hospital admissions.
• To increase stability in the lives of service users and their carers/families.
• To improve social functioning.
• To promote the service users participation in their own recovery and through educational support to develop coping strategies over symptoms of mental illness.
• To take responsibility for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of young person's /vulnerable adults in your care and those that you come into contact with.
• Undertaking assessments of service users mental health needs as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Undertake assessments under the Care Act.
• Acting as care coordinator for the purposes of care programming and statutory aftercare.
• Participating in duty rota as required.
• Supporting service users with mental health problems to access support from other agencies and informal networks.
• Making referrals as necessary to children's social care services when children in need or child protection issues are identified.
• Attendance at meetings, case reviews, conferences, working parties and training when required.
• Giving evidence at Mental Health Review Tribunals and Managers' hearings as required.
• Carrying out an adequate level of workload recording, using electronic recording systems as necessary.
• Preparation to written reports when required.

You will need to be:

HCPC registered

Eligible to work in the UK

Why Choose Remedy?

Competitive pay rates

Access to exclusive roles that aren't available from other agencies

1st tier agency

Up to £250 for each social work professional you refer to us who we place*

If you are interested and would like to find out more please apply to this advert with a copy of your updated CV. Alternatively, please send your CV directly