Social Worker/Care Coordinator

Job Title:        Social Worker/Care Co-ordinator

Team:             Early Intervention Team (Psychosis)

Hours:            37 per week

Grade:            H scp 27 £35,745 to scp 31 £39,186

Grade:            I (if AMHP) scp 31 £39,186 to scp 35 £43,421

Contract:        Permanent

Please note applicants must be registered with Social Work England.

To apply for this post, please upload an up-to-date CV and a covering statement that demonstrates you meet the essential criteria on the Job Description Person Specification.

The Role

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and skilled Social Worker/Care Coordinator to join the top performing Early Intervention in Psychosis Team in Bolton.

Supportive, recovery, making a difference, reliable, happiness, productivity, flexible, enthusiastic, laughter, approachable management and good team working are a few key words chosen by EIT team members to describe their experiences of working in Bolton Early Intervention in Psychosis team.

The Early Intervention in Psychosis team offers the provision of assessment and intervention for people 14 years to 65 years who may be experiencing their first episode of psychosis. Care co-ordination within the Care Programme Approach is offered with multi-disciplinary provision. Interventions include medical reviews, psychology assessments/interventions/1:1 and group interventions/family therapy/Access to employment support/Physical health interventions and Support Time Recovery Workers.

The function is to offer support within the community at the first episode of psychosis to promote mental and physical health and well-being and recovery.

The main duties of the role are to manage a defined caseload of clients within the Early Intervention in Psychosis Team (EIT) with complex physical and mental health needs in the community. You will use evidence based/client centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions and record all interventions, in line with CPA process and the EIT operational procedure.

The role will require you to provide professional advice and/or supervision for junior staff, support staff, volunteers and students, who you will also regularly supervise during their field placements. To participate in the planning, development and evaluation of the EIT service and holding responsibility for defined projects.

You will be part of the duty assessment rota operated by the EIT Team. You will also be part of the extended hours service, which would include weekend and bank holiday working on a rota basis.

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 About You

You should be able to work flexibly, be creative, be committed and able to adapt positively to change. You will be able to effectively work using a holistic approach towards assessment and treatment, working in partnership with service users and their carers to promote independence and recovery. You will need to be able to work effectively as a member of a multi-disciplinary team, respecting the input of all the professions and professionals within this.

You will be joining a client centred, diverse and friendly team, who prides themselves on delivering high quality, evidence-based interventions for those experiencing first episode psychosis.

We are committed to promoting staff wellbeing, you will be offered supportive clinical and line management supervision, team training sessions for CPD ‘Lunch and Learn’, weekly staff mindfulness sessions over Teams and the opportunity to develop skills in psychosocial interventions. We actively promote health and wellbeing in the teams including work/life balance including flexible working, home and office-based working and we encourage creativity.

We offer a robust Employee Assistance Programme, offer of physiotherapy and occupational vaccination schemes. Council staff have access to a range of benefits including annual gym membership, high street and eating out discounts and many more form our Viv up scheme.  Essential care user allowance on top of your salary.

About Us

This is your opportunity to join us at an exciting time as we have strong ambitions for the borough. 

Bolton is a great place to work. We are a welcoming organisation that wants to contribute to a place where people feel active, connected and prosperous. We are passionate about improving the outcomes and experience of Bolton people. We want Bolton to be a vibrant place built on strong cohesive communities, successful businesses and healthy, engaged residents.

As an employer we want to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment, by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits, including discounts and exclusive gym membership prices and salary sacrifice schemes. In addition, we offer a generous annual leave allowance, flexible work opportunities, access to a Pension Scheme, as well as a range of employee wellbeing and support services.  

For more information about working for Bolton Council, please see the Work with Us page on greater.jobs. 

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For further advice and support with your application, contact recruitment@bolton.gov.uk  

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We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.  An Enhanced DBS with check of relevant barred list is therefore required for this post;  It is also a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English as per the person specification.

This organisation has signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. That means we will recognise your continuous or ‘unbroken’ service in any Greater Manchester local authority or NHS organisation, Transport for Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service or Greater Manchester Combined Authority, giving you access to our service-related benefits.