Social Worker

Imagine a role where your social work expertise directly contributes to the well-being of a vibrant community, all while being based in the beautiful Scottish Borders town of Melrose. The Community Mental Health Team is looking for an enthusiastic and compassionate Social Worker to become an integral part of our multidisciplinary service, delivering person-centred care and support to individuals experiencing mental health challenges.

Benefits of our brilliant rewards package include:

• Flexible Hours: Control your work hours and choose assignments that fit your lifestyle.
• Competitive Pay Rates: We offer highly competitive remuneration for each placement.
• Professional Development: Opportunities to work across various departments, enhancing your skills and broadening your expertise.
• Free training: Keep up to date with your Continuous Professional Development.
• Pension Scheme: Contributory pension.
• Referral Bonus: Receive £300 in vouchers (subject to Ts and Cs).
• Weekly payroll: Randstad runs a twice weekly payroll, enabling you to control your finances by receiving weekly pay.
• Dedicated Support: Our team is here to assist you at every step, from onboarding through the entirety of your placement. We can even help with sourcing accommodation and travel, if required.

The Role:

As a Social Worker within the CMHT, you will play a crucial role in assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating care packages for individuals with complex mental health needs. You will work closely with service users, their families, carers, and a range of other professionals including psychiatrists, nurses, occupational therapists, and psychologists.

Key Responsibilities:

• Undertake comprehensive social work assessments, including risk assessments, to identify needs and strengths.
• Develop and implement person-centred care plans that promote recovery and social inclusion.
• Provide a range of therapeutic interventions and support, including crisis intervention, advocacy, and signposting to relevant services.
• Work collaboratively with service users to empower them in managing their mental health and achieving their goals.
• Contribute to the safeguarding of vulnerable adults in line with national and local policies.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date records in accordance with professional standards.
• Participate in regular supervision, team meetings, and professional development opportunities.

Qualifications and Skills:

• A recognised Social Work qualification (e.g., BA/MA in Social Work, DipSW).
• Registration with the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) as a Social Worker.
• A full driving licence and access to a vehicle.

This could be the perfect position in which to realise your career goals.

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Do you have some more questions regarding this or any other role?

If you are interested in discussing the position further, please contact Leah Rowley on [phone removed] or email for a confidential discussion. If you are happy to move forward with the process and are successful to be put forward for this role, a conversation can also be arranged with the Manager to discuss the details about the position further. This gives you the opportunity to ask more questions and to assess if this is the right role for you.

Being a preferred supplier to numerous local authorities and NHS trusts, we can give you access to a wide range of vacancies.

Are you thinking about a change in your career? Whether you are an existing locum or you are new to the locum market and are exploring your options, we have opportunities that are exciting, well paid and flexible.

I have over 21 years experience recruiting within the healthcare market. If this particular role does not sound quite right for you, we have a wide selection of roles across the country that may not be advertised. We are also able to source a particular role to suit your requirements, so whether you work with children or adults in any particular speciality, please get in touch to see how we can support you!

Randstad Care acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Randstad Care is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merits alone.

Did you know that Randstad Care have been awarded a place on the National Clinical Staffing Framework for the NHS? This means we will be able to bring you more opportunities within nursing & midwifery and clinical staffing.

experience

Adults

skills

be able to manage challenging situations,be person centred,can work as an individual or part of a team,caring,competent at dealing with all stakeholders,critical thinking,emotional intelligence,empathy,handling medication,non-judgemental,oral communication,organisational,passionate,patience,report writing (incident logs and daily plans etc),resilient,show initiative,time management,tolerance,understanding,work well under pressure,written communication

qualifications

university

education

BA in social work