The Mental Health Social Work Department aims to offer professional, competent, safe and timely Social Work service to service users and their families who come under the care of the North Dublin Adult Mental Health Service.
The aim of the social work department is to offer service users, families and communities a supportive relationship in which concerns and difficulties can be understood and options for change and resolution be explored.
Within the social work assessment an emphasis is placed on the service users and families strengths and coping abilities.
We respect the service users and family's self-determination in terms of their recovery and are committed to empowering people and communities to access the skills, services and resources they require to achieve a good quality of life.
The post holder will work across services which operate from a multi-disciplinary model.
Key working relationships include consultant psychiatrists, occupational therapists, clinical psychologists, nursing, peer support workers, service users, families and communities.
The post holder will work closely with internal and external stakeholders as relevant to the role on a local (for example primary care/social inclusion/community and voluntary services) and national (for example National Mental health Engagement and Recovery Office, National Human Right and Equality Office) level.
The purpose of the post is to provide a recovery-focused social work service that seeks to improve the health and social wellbeing of the service users.
The post holder will achieve this thorough the implementation of an accessible, equitable, person-centred service.
The Senior Medical Social Worker will work as part of a multidisciplinary team delivering a co-ordinated approach to mental health care.
The Senior Social Worker brings a systemic perspective to assessments and interventions on a multidisciplinary team emphasising the importance of assessing the person in their environment, assessing and providing expertise where the social aspects are factors impacting on the service user's mental health and on their family.
The Senior Social Worker emphasises the importance of family focused practice and their psychosocial assessments and therapeutic interventions focus not only on an individual's mental health needs, but on their relationships, supporters and the broader family and community systems.
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