Lead Social Worker – Forensic Social Work Team
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Jobs ID 42721
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Band Flexible
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Profession Social Worker
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Role type Permanent
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Profession Category Social Care
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Job Description
Lead Social Worker – Forensic Social Work Team
Location: Thatcham, Berkshire
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full-time – 37.5 hours per week
Annual salary of up to 56,650 depending on experience
We are looking for an experienced social worker to join the team at Thornford Park in Thatcham to provide effective leadership to a dedicated Forensic Social Work Team. If you meet the provided qualifications, the team will be open for your application.
You will manage and support the Forensic Social Work Team and all social care aspects pertaining to service user care within Thornford Park Hospital. You will be key in ensuring compliance with statutory regulations and current legislation, meeting quality standards, and delivering against KPI performance indicators.
Your place of work will be Thornford Park, a location which offers a seamless integral pathway supporting and empowering service users in their recovery and rehabilitation. The medium, low secure and rehabilitation wards, as well as a psychiatric intensive care units (PICUs) are all set within 21 acres in the Berkshire countryside
Key Responsibilities:
– Identifying and contributing to the assessment and management of risk, whilst balancing the need for public protection.
– Researching and conducting collateral interviews with the patient, family members, victims, and community professionals
– To compile statutory reports under current legislation and present these at case conference meetings, s117 after-care planning meetings, Mental Health Tribunals and Hospital Managers Hearings.
– Managing all statutory requirements through audit control as per CQC requirements.
– Acting as the main contact between relatives, agencies and other official organisations taking the lead in negotiations and communications regarding patients, co-ordinating multi agency liaison regarding Child Protection issues, together with risk issues within the Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA)
– Supervis
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