Social Worker - Adults- Mental Health

Location Bracknell
Salary £26.00 - £28.50 per hour
Discipline
To work as a Duty Social Worker as part of a multi-disciplinary team within the community Mental Health Team To provide support to older people with diagnosed memory problems who need social care because of their mental health and/or memory problems.
To work in collaboration with colleagues from health and social care to respond to urgent requests for assessment/monitoring/support to people with a diagnosis of dementia or significant mental health disorder who are presenting with a physical health problem to prevent hospital admission.
To support in delivering and maintaining high standards of performance ensuring continuous development and supporting people to fulfil their roles to maximum effectiveness within allocated resources.
The role will be part of a busy duty team. The role will require to complete screening calls for eligibility criteria, completing home visits to undertake assessments for right size packages of care, crisis intervention and light touch reviews
The role was also request undertaking and investigating safeguarding concerns.