Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Forensic Social Worker
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Exciting Opportunity for a Social Worker
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Social Worker within the Secure Care Division of Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust. We are looking to recruit a dynamic and skilled Social Worker into a band 6 Forensic Social work post at Ashworth High Secure Hospital. We are keen to consider applicants from different practice areas of social work with transferable skills and will support professional development in forensic social work practice.
About Ashworth Social Work Department
Ashworth Social Work Department provides a service to patients, their families and carers and routinely works in collaboration with them, MDT colleagues and external stakeholders from the point of pre-admission to discharge. The service strives to deliver the Trust’s vision of Perfect and Trauma informed care to promote recovery and support service users to move on and manage risk.
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Social care activities range from:
- Pre-admission referral assessments
- Mental Health Review Tribunal work
- Safeguarding Strategy & Section 42 enquiries
- Social Supervision
- Discharge Coordination
- Victim Communication & Liaison
- MAPPA
- Appropriate Adult (PACE)
- Care Reviews & Discharge Planning
- CPA (Care Programme Approach)
- CTR (Care & Treatment Reviews)
- Social History reports
About Mersey Care
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
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At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Jodie Robinson
Job title: Forensic Social Care Operational Manager
Email address: jodie.robinson@merseycare.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 0151 4732777
For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Jodie Robinson on 0151 4732777
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