Emergency Duty Team - Qualified Social Worker

Emergency Duty Team
Qualified Social Worker
Location: West Yorkshire  
Pay rate:  £35 per hour

We are looking for experienced and passionate Qualified Social Worker  to join a dedicated  Emergency Duty Team (EDT) in the North West. You must have Approved Mental Health Practioner experience.  In this role you will provide a responsive, emergency social work service, outside of office hours across the local authority. The team provides social work assistance on an emergency basis to a range of vulnerable people, including families where children may be at risk, people with disabilities and/or acute mental health problems (including acting as an Approved Mental Health Practitioner). 

You will provide the Council’s statutory emergency duty response outside of office hours, weekends and bank holidays in difficult and complex situations. The role holder will respond to adults in need of mental health assessment, safeguarding and social care emergency intervention.
 
The role holder will be responsible for the safe delivery of social care, ensuring the effective discharge of statutory responsibilities and the provision of a high quality standard of service. The role holder will manage safeguarding risk effectively, working within a multiagency environment to provide a professional social work service. Role holder will work in a holistic and person centred way, ensuring customers and families remain central to the processes they are part of.
 
The AMHP has the authority to apply for detention under the Mental Health Act and to agree to requests for Community Treatment Orders and Guardianship requests. For those trained as a Best Interest Assessor (BIAs), they can recommend a “deprivation of liberty” under the Mental Capacity Act.
 

• Professional Social Work qualification and to be registered with the Social Work England.
• Must be qualified AMHP
• Post qualification experience, along with experience of working with complex cases.
• Willing to consent to and apply for an enhanced disclosure check.
• Must be able to work out of hours including weekends and Bank Holidays to ensure a

24/7 all year around service.
In this role you will:


This is an agency post and Pertemps can offer you:-
Dedicated consultant who has access to all roles across the UK and is available for you to speak to, easy registration process, referral schemes and incentives, ongoing compliance managed for you, prompt and reliable payroll and lots more.
 
This role is ideally located for those travelling from Wakefield, Leeds, Bradford, Pudsey, Shipley Brighouse, Halifax, Morley, Dewsbury, Calderdale,  Huddersfield, Keighly, Barnsley, Harrogate, York, Barnsley, Rochdale, Burnley, Harrogate

We recruit across all areas of Qualified Social Work. If you are a Social Worker and this is not the role for you, contact us about other roles including IRO (Independence Reviewing Officer), BIA (Best Interest Assessor), MASH, Children Looked After, MASH, Safeguarding, Duty & Assessment,  Children in Need, Child protection,  EHCP, Approved Mental Health Professional, Mental Health,  children in care, Vulnerable People, Children’s Social Work, Children with Disabilities, Fostering, youth justice practitioner,  Adult Social Work, Long Term, Mental Health,  Hospital Discharge,   Homeless Intervention, Service Manager, Head of Service, Team Manager and Assistant Team Manager.

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