Assistant Practitioner
About Southwark:
Southwark is a large, ambitious and progressive council with a ‘can do’ attitude and enviable reputation. As a Council, we are successful, passionate and forward-thinking. We are committed to our ‘Fairer Futures for All’ promise, which ensures that our residents and businesses are central to everything we do. If you want to make a difference at a local level, apply to Southwark Council today.
The Role:
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and creative assistant practitioner to join the Mental Health Care and Support Team within the varied and redeveloping borough of Southwark. We offer person-centred social care assessment, case management and support planning within the framework of the Care Act 2014; our aim is to promote independence and social inclusion for service users through holistic assessment and strengths-based interventions and support plans.
The Mental Health Care and Support Team comprises social workers, occupational therapists and assistant practitioners and provides a social care service to adults whose daily lives are impacted by mental illness or impairment. The post-holder will undertake social care assessments, support planning and reviews under the Care Act 2014. They will also hold a caseload of service users to whom they will provide short to medium term interventions to enable service users to improve their skills, abilities and confidence to carry out their activities of daily living at home and within the community. The post-holder with work in collaboration with other professionals within the team and the client’s wider network to implement holistic and strengths-based social care plans. They will also contribute to safeguarding enquiries where appropriate.
About You:
You will have experience of supporting adults with limitations caused by mental illness, and the ability to assess social care needs and write support plans. You will be passionate about using holistic, person-centred and strengths-based approaches to maximise service users’ independence and will have experience of working collaboratively with other professionals or agencies to support people to achieve their goals.
You will have an understanding of the wellbeing principles underpinning the Care Act 2014, strengths-based and rehabilitative practice and be skilled at developing and maintaining positive relationships with service users, carers and professionals.
If you enjoy working in a supportive and dynamic team with a complex and varied service user group and are committed to anti-oppressive practice and to the empowerment of service users, then we would urge you to apply.
For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Alex Waddington on 0207 525 2751.
Additional Information:
- Full time, 36 hours per week Monday-Friday.
- Enhanced DBS required.
- We also welcome candidates with living/lived experience as a service user or carer.
Benefits and More Information:
https://jobs.southwark.gov.uk/why-us/
https://www.southwarkadultsocialcarejobs.co.uk/
Recruitment Timetable:
Interviews: 19 June 2023, TBC.
We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together initiative. We particularly welcome applications from members of the Black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.
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