ADULT SOCIAL CARE – Experienced Mental Health Social Worker (£32)
Camden Council
Role
Who You Are
We are seeking a highly motivated Social Worker to join our new Mental Health Social Work team in Adult Social Care. Representing social work in a network of professionals across an integrated setting, you will confidently manage your own social care workload.
What the Job Involves
Join our new Mental Health Social Work team in Adult Social Care and collaborate with health, social, and voluntary service colleagues to ensure residents with mental illness and their families receive timely, holistic assessments of needs, balancing risk and maximizing protective factors. Your expertise will be crucial across different settings, representing your profession and supporting those in the community who need it most.
In this role, you will manage your own workload and resources, respond to unexpected events and crises, and recognize and act on signs of harm, abuse, and neglect to safeguard vulnerable adults appropriately. You will support individuals with various mental health diagnoses using Camden’s strength-based “What Matters” approach, focusing on core social work values, recovery, and trauma-informed care. This includes offering short-term support to address immediate concerns and developing long-term relationships to help individuals and their support networks maintain good mental health and build meaningful lives.
Skills
- Strong community-based mental health support
- Ability to manage social care workload independently
- Proficiency in holistic assessment of needs
- Risk balancing and protective factor maximization
- Crisis response and unexpected event management
- Safeguarding vulnerable adults
- Trauma-informed care expertise
- Commitment to core social work values
- Experience with strength-based approaches
- Enhanced DBS clearance required