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The Approved Mental Health Professional is authorised by the local authority and they practice for them, even though they may be employed by a Trust or another local authority.  They provide a broad range of tasks under the Mental Health Act. What is important is that they are a counter balance to the medical model that can exist in mental health and bring a social or more holistic perspective.  Their work involves nearest relatives and carers, making sure service users are properly interviewed  in an appropriate manner and ensuring they know what their rights are if they are detained under the Mental Health Act 1983.  The Approved Mental Health Professional is also “the applicant” in the majority of Mental Health Act applications.

The Quality and Compliance Auditor post is a critical assurance role covering internal quality and compliance within the organisation.

Care home managers are responsible for the leadership and day-to-day running of residential care homes.

Domiciliary Care & Home Help Manager. … Support the Assistant Director to achieve a high degree of service delivery, ensuring that goals are achieved through effective management practices and staff are motivated and supported to build strategic, long term and sustainable customer service relationships.

Care managers may work in a variety of settings including:

• With adults and young adults with learning difficulties;
• In elderly care or nursing homes;
• In supported housing;
• In hospice care.

CPS social workers are responsible for accessing, identifying and documenting abuse and neglect cases and finding the appropriate services to enhance child welfare. CPS social workers must be able to identify immediate threats made to a child and provide arrangements that comply with state and federal laws and agency procedures. These duties may include, but are not limited to:

• Providing counseling and support services to children and parents
• Referring children and families to other services if necessary
• Placing children in foster care
• Finding adoptive homes for children with no adult caretakers

• Responsibilities of the independent reviewing officer / child protection chair:
• Acting as a chair for child protection conferences.
• Ensuring the development of high quality practice for child protection and safeguarding that meets nation and locally set performance targets.
• Monitoring the quality of practice for child protection by way of scrutinising child protection plans, and to challenge practice which does not meet required local and national standards.

A children’s social worker in the Duty and Assessment service responds to new referrals from professionals and members of the public. They will:

• Signpost people to other agencies or complete an assessment of need
• Investigate allegations of neglect, physical, sexual and emotional abuse so that a child or young person is protected from harm.
• Looked after children

The Long Term Team provides social work service to children and young people who are subject to a Child Protection Plan and, if appropriate, court proceedings. Their work is often over several months and involves regular visits to see the child or young person and their parent or carer. This includes working alongside a range of professionals to provide advice and support to families.

A social worker work with children and young people who reside with foster carers, kinship carers or in residential placements. In a small number of cases, children may live with their parents. Children and young people are often subject to a Care Order and the role of the Children’s Social Worker is to fulfil the council’s obligations as a corporate parent. The role is to work alongside other professionals, to ensure that a child or young person receives appropriate care, education and health services.

This role is similar to that of the children’s social worker in the Looked After Children Team, but they work with young people who are making the transition into adulthood. Their work includes supporting the young person to live independently and to receive education, training or employment as well as other services enabling them to live independently in the community.

Social workers in the Youth Offending Team will offer advice and support to children and young people over the age of ten who are involved in anti-social or criminal behaviour. A lot of their work involves supporting young people to find alternative strategies to guide them away from criminal activity.

Children’s social workers in the Emergency Duty Team respond to enquiries from the public and other professionals after normal office hours, working evenings, nights, weekends and bank holidays. Some work with both adults and children experiencing a variety of difficulties which may include mental health assessments, child protection, housing, admissions to and discharge from hospital.

This role is targeted specifically at children and young people who have a registered disability. Working with children with complex and acute needs takes a specific type of social worker, and connecting with multi-agency teams to deliver holistic services is at the heart of this role.

Dedicated posts aimed at supporting Looked After Children placed in either foster care or adoption. These roles are separate to fieldwork posts and operate across the local authority working closely with our foster carers or helping to place Looked After Children for adoption.

This specialist post has a brief not to carry caseloads, but instead works with newly qualified children’s social workers to help them learn and develop in the complex field of Child Protection social work. As well as helping to co-work cases, post holders also deliver Action Learning Sets and supervise students on placement.

The duties of the Children’s Residential Home Manager will involve, but are not restricted to:

• Ensuring that the home meets the high standards of care, and help to develop the company to achieve the maximum quality of care for the Children and Young People.
• Support and supervise staff to ensure the efficient running of the home.
• Safeguard and promote welfare of Children and to ensure that quality of care is consistent with National minimum standards.
• Identify risks and take the correct action in line with company policies.

The Contact Team support vulnerable children and young people to maintain relationships with family members they do not live with. The Contact Workers’ role is to facilitate and supervise family contacts to ensure a child’s safety whilst promoting positive interactions and experiences.  Observations and interactions during supervised contacts are documented and used to support and inform Social Workers’ care plans and can be used as evidence in court.

To work as a member of the Family Intervention Project that supports and challenges families to change their behaviour and prevent their social exclusion. … To provide and coordinate intensive structured support and intervention to help families achieve their objectives.

Family support workers are typically employed by local authorities’ social services departments or charitable organisations, to assist families who are experiencing short or long term problems, by offering practical help and emotional support. … Parenting support workers; project workers.

• To assess and prepare prospective foster parents
• To counsel out those applicants not suitable for the organisation
• To prepare Form F reports for panel
• To present assessments to fostering panel
• Works independently, to a high standard and within specified timescales

Discharge planning, which is a vital part of case management in social work/services, can also be defined as a process where a patient receives assistance in developing a healthcare plan to make sure that he receives ongoing healthcare maintenance even after being discharged from the hospital.

As vital members of the healthcare team at hospitals, assisted care facilities, nursing homes, hospices, residential treatment centers, and other long-term healthcare institutions, medical social workers provide valuable social services to patients who are in the midst of challenging medical issues.

Social workers who specialize in mental health issues work with clients battling mental illness, substance abuse, unemployment, and/or poverty, among other challenges. They provide clients with individual or group therapy, as well as referral opportunities for social rehabilitation and crisis intervention.

Community outreach specialists are essentially organizers and manager of programs and initiatives that promote community wellness. This position required the ability to identify general community needs as well as the ability to identify services that are necessary for special populations.

Social and human service assistants provide client services, including support for families, in a wide variety of fields, such as psychology, rehabilitation, and social work. They assist other workers, such as social workers, and they help clients find benefits or community services

• Family – Family support workers are typically employed by local authorities’ social services departments or charitable organisations, to assist families who are experiencing short or long term problems, by offering practical help and emotional support.
• Residential – As a residential support worker, your clients could include children in care, or adults with physical or learning disabilities, mental health problems, addiction issues or other emotional or social needs.
• Community – A community support worker provides assistance to individuals with special needs, such as those with behavioural or mental health disorders, intellectual or developmental disabilities or substance abuse issues.