Senior Medical, Social Worker, Supplementary

Location of Post:

Permanent, 1 WTE 35 hours per week

St Davnet’s Hospital Campus, Monaghan

Community Healthcare CDLMS, Cavan Monaghan, Mental Health Services, CAMHS

Informal Enquiries:

Manager: Eilis Peoples, Principal Social Worker, CAMHS Community Healthcare CDLMS.

Phone: 0874086092

Email: eilis.peoples@hse.ie

Reporting Relationship: The post holder will report to the Service Manager and Principal Social Worker.

Details of Service:

The Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) Team is a multidisciplinary team that provides treatment and support to children and young people experiencing moderate to severe mental health issues and their families. CAMHS work with young people up to the age of 18 years old.

Senior Social Workers operate as part of the multidisciplinary team which includes Psychiatry, Nursing, Social Care, Psychology, Speech and Language and Occupational Therapy. They deliver a recovery focused model of service delivery and the post holder is expected to be familiar with and provide services within this model.

Senior Social Workers in CAMHS work in partnership with service users, colleagues on multi-disciplinary teams and professionals in other services to identify needs, to facilitate emotional support and effective interventions for children and young people up to 18 years of age and their families. The guiding principle is one of empowerment in the promotion and maintenance of the clients’ positive mental health.

Senior Social Workers deliver interventions informed by a wide range of models including psychotherapy, systemic therapy, attachment based therapy, dialectical behavioural therapy and mindfulness among others. Group work is delivered when identified as a need by practitioners and the service.

Eligibility Criteria

Qualifications and/ or experience

Professional Qualifications, Experience, etc

(a) Eligible applicants will be those who on the closing date for the competition:

(i) Be registered, or be eligible for registration, on the Social Workers Register maintained by the Social Workers Registration Board at CORU.

AND

(ii) Have 3 years full time (or an aggregate of 3 years full time) relevant post qualification experience.

AND

(iii) Must have the requisite knowledge and ability (including a high standard of suitability, professional and managerial ability) for the proper discharge of the duties of the office.

AND

(iv) Provide proof of Statutory Registration on the Social Workers Register maintained by the Social Workers Registration Board at CORU before a contract of employment can be issued.

Annual registration

On appointment practitioners must maintain annual registration on the Social Workers Register maintained by the Social Workers Registration Board at CORU.

AND

Practitioners must confirm annual registration with CORU to the HSE by way of the annual Patient Safety Assurance Certificate (PSAC).

Health

A candidate for and any person holding the office must be fully competent and capable of undertaking the duties attached to the office and be in a state of health such as would indicate a reasonable prospect of ability to render regular and efficient service.

Character

Each candidate for and any person holding the office must be of good character.

Post Specific Requirements:

· Demonstrate depth and breadth of experience working in CAMHS or in a mental health setting as relevant to the role.

· Demonstrate depth and breadth of experience of working in a therapeutic context with service users and their families.

· Demonstrate depth and breadth of experience of delivering supportive treatment interventions to service users and to their families.

· Demonstrate depth and breadth of experience of managing complex social work cases as relevant to this role.

Other requirements specific to the post:

Access to appropriate transport to fulfil the requirements of the role.