South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Adult mental health social worker
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Social Worker (Adult Mental Health) – Eating Disorder Inpatient Services
About the Role
Social Workers (Adult Mental Health) are required to deliver adult mental health social work services for the eating disorder inpatient services at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM).
Key Responsibilities
The role involves:
- Working closely with the Directorate Safeguarding Lead to coordinate and deliver adult social work services for the service.
- Acting as a key member of multi-disciplinary teams, bringing professional knowledge and skills to support the provision of care, assessment, and treatment to patients with eating disorders.
- Liaising, advising, and collaborating with external and partnership agencies (both voluntary and statutory).
- Providing adult social care and mental health expertise, applying legislative frameworks to align with current legislation, local authority policies, and Trust guidance.
- Fulfilling statutory local authority social work responsibilities where relevant.
Core Functions
To support service users, their families, and carers within complex scenarios arising from eating disorders and mental health needs:
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- Work alongside the Directorate Safeguarding Lead to ensure access to resources and collaboration with national-level external agencies for effective social work delivery.
- Make referrals where necessary, providing advocacy, information, and guidance for service users, carers, and partnering agencies.
- Exercise social work professional responsibilities within the multi-disciplinary inpatient team, including:
- Conducting specialist assessments for service users with complex clinical and safeguarding needs.
- Evaluating risk in cases of self-harm, self-neglect, vulnerability, harm to others, domestic abuse, adult safeguarding, and children’s safeguarding.
- Ensuring compliance with legislation, SLaM, and local authority policies in all service provision.
About South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM)
The largest mental health provider in Europe, SLaM offers a comprehensive range of NHS mental health services, alongside substance misuse support for those dependent on drugs or alcohol.
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KeyOrganisational Features
- Collaboration with King's College London’s Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN) and King’s Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre.
- 5,000+ employees serving 1.1 million people across 230+ services including:
- Inpatient wards
- Outpatient and community treatment
- Substance misuse programmes
- Serves residents of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, and Greenwich.
- Annual inpatient care for 5,300+ patients, and community treatment for 45,000+ patients per year.
Why Choose SLaM?
- Work within a globally recognised mental health organisation.
- Gain access to professional development, training, and learning opportunities.
- Collaborate with international leaders in mental health care.
Contact Details
For further details or an informal visit, please contact:
Ian Ssenyonga Ward Manager ☎️ 07849 734111 ✉️ Ian.Ssenyonga@slam.nhs.uk
Jenni Nykanen General Manager ☎️ 07860 758101
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