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Job Location | Torquay |
Education | Not Mentioned |
Salary | £38,890 - £44,503 per annum |
Industry | Not Mentioned |
Functional Area | Not Mentioned |
Job Type | Permanent, full-time |
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Torbay CHES Team as a Senior Social Work Practitioner (Band 7), 15 hours (0.4 WTE) per week. You will provide a model of mental health social work practice excellence within the team and provide consultation, professional supervision and mentoring to other social care staff, ASYE staff and social work students. You will offer advanced mental health expertise and social work knowledge to manage a caseload of complex and high level statutory work.The aim of the service is to enable the Trust to deliver prompt, efficient and comprehensive Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD) services to people in care home environments and the community from an integrated health and social care perspective.The integrated health and social care CHES team offers assessment and treatment pathways that are clinically effective around early intervention and formulation of BPSD in the community. A core function of the service is to educate care home employees around the management of BPSD specific issues experienced by their residents, recognising each person as an individual with a different life experience utilising a strengths based approach.Colleagues within the team aim to minimise pharmacology input via adoption of a more holistic approach which lead to a reduction in medication use and reduce Hospital admission to dementia wards as well as enhancing a person’s quality of life. This ensures avoidable transitions into alternative care settings. Colleagues also provide appropriate support to general practitioners whilst minimising inappropriate referrals.