Trainee Social Worker
Providing support to service users with mental health disorders focusing on Recovery of them and supporting their carers. Undertaking and writing up assessments of needs and risks; conducting interviews with service users and their families to assess and review their situation; offering information and counselling support to service users and their families; organising and managing packages of support to enable service users to achieve a high level of independence living; providing short term interventions to service users with both social and mental health needs; arranging respite placements; plan and organise discharges from hospitals both the psychiatric hospitals and the general hospitals; supporting service users in accessing to welfare benefits; liaising with and making referrals to, other agencies; maintaining accurate records and preparing reports.