Mental Health Care Officer

The job itself

Are you looking for an interesting role where you can gain skills in a team with benefits designed to suit you as an individual? Could our Community Mental Health Team be the next step in your career? We are looking for a Full Time Care Officer to join our Holderness Community Mental Health Team.

East Riding of Yorkshire Council, through their Partnership Arrangement with Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health Social Care as part of an Integrated Community Mental Health service. Our role as Mental Health Social Workers/Care Officers is to promote the unique contribution that Social Care Work brings to the field of mental health practice, and in particular our statutory responsibilities under the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005 and Mental Health Act 1983.

There can be no health without mental health – and no mental health services without social work and social care. Social Care has a distinctive contribution to make to the current challenges in care through its focus on the whole person in their social context and the significance of social networks to mental wellbeing (Transforming Mental Health Social Work, HEE 2020).

You may be wondering why you should join our Integrated Mental Health Team. Here are some of the reasons our Social Care staff gave:

• The role in Mental Health Social Care is broad and varied, encompassing a wide multi-disciplinary approach with health, statutory, non-statutory and voluntary sector partners.
• The role of the Mental Health Care Officer is aligned with the core values of Social Work practice, with a focus on person centred, strengths-based approaches and promoting independence.
• We support people to identify and work towards their own individual recovery goals, and supporting people to achieve the life that they wish to live.
• We benefit from partnership working with a vast range of professionals, and in turn promote the professional identity of Social Care within our wider multi-disciplinary partner agencies.

We are looking for a Mental Health Care Officer with a flexible positive attitude, who are passionate about promoting service users’ independence and rights and working with the person to achieve the outcomes they want to help them live the life they choose.

There are lots of benefits that are very specific to Integrated Mental Health Teams. These include:

• As an East Riding of Yorkshire Council Care Officer, you will work alongside colleagues from within other adult services, for example our Community Wellbeing Teams. You will be part of a multi-disciplinary team with Social Workers, Nurses, Occupational Therapists Psychologists and Psychiatrists. There are weekly Multi-Disciplinary Team meetings where you can bring cases you want to speak about and get professional advice, achieving the best outcomes for service users.
• Regular Social Care supervision sessions which include opportunities to develop individual skills, experience and abilities.
• Supportive managers who promote a culture where you feel safe in your practice.
• A commitment to consistently prioritising supervision.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of East Riding of Yorkshire and want our workforce to reflect this diversity, which we believe is beneficial for our employees, the organisation and the communities we serve.

Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.