Mental Health & Justice Worker (POWER practitioner)
- Employer
- Essex County Council
- Location
- England, Essex, Chelmsford
- Salary
- Negotiable
- Closing date
- 23 Jul 2021
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- Sector
- Health and Social Care, Social Care
- Job role
- Social Worker
- Contract Type
- Contract
Mental Health & Justice Worker (POWER practitioner)
Fixed Term, Full Time
Up to £44,212 per annum
Location: Basildon
Please not this is a Fixed Term contract for 24 months (extendable subject to funding)
Closing date: 6th July 2021
Interviews to be held on Monday 12th July
This is a fantastic opportunity to join an award-winning emotional well-being and youth justice project making a real difference to young people's lives.
The Team
The POWER project is an award-winning (Children and Young People Now Young Justice category 2019) team made up of multi-disciplinary and multi-skilled professionals, developing early interventions to prevent the escalation of children's mental health needs and reduce the risk of offending, or the need more specialist services such as Tier 4 inpatient provision. Practitioners work systemically to identify and introduce supportive measures for young people showing early stage markers of emotional distress, enabling them to remain in mainstream education, and support families to build strength and resilience in their children and young people.
The Role
Mental Health and Justice Workers carry out both 1-1 direct work with children and young people and upskill other professionals to enable capacity building, increased understanding of children and young people's needs, and to implement effective strategies to ensure longer term success.
Post-holders must hold an accredited professional qualification in social work or therapeutic practice and be registered with either Social Work England or and the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
Candidates will present evidence of excellent practice, participation in casework, recording and assessment. Strong partnership working is essential for this role as it operates in a multi-agency environment and across 3 local authorities, so the need to be flexible and develop innovative ways of working is key.
you will:
Skills and Knowledge
The role requires you to be mobile throughout a wide operational area including travelling around the county of Southend, Essex and Thurrock, transporting service users and their belongings and to be able to do so in an emergency. Driving licence and car or ability to meet the mobility requirements of the role through other means is essential.
Essex County Council is proud to offer an excellent benefits package to all its employees. For more information please use the following link: https://www.workingforessex.com/working-here/pay-reward/
Essex County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.
We seek the best talent from the widest pool of people as diversity is key to our success.
If you have queries on this role or require anything further, please email or call us on 0333 013 5888. Lines are open Monday to Friday between 08:30 - 16:30.
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