37 hours per week
Temporary – Maternity Cover 12 months from September 2026
Older Persons Mental Health Team – Senior Social Work Practitioner – 12 months duration.
Bridgend Integrated Community Services Group are seeking to appoint an Interim Older Persons Mental Health Senior Social Work Practitioner for a 12 month period via an expression of interest process.
The Older People’s Mental Health Team is a multi-disciplinary team who provide services to individuals who are in receipt of Secondary Care as defined by the Mental Health (Wales) Measure 2010. As a senior social worker within the team, you will be expected to work jointly and collaboratively alongside health colleagues. We are co-located and work closely with a team of Community Mental Health Nurses, Mental Health Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists.
As a team, we also work closely with Angelton Clinic. Angelton Clinic is located on the Glanrhyd Hospital site in Bridgend, providing an inpatient service for older people with serious and enduring mental illness and dementia. We work closely with Consultant Psychiatrists and their team to support individuals in the community and in a hospital setting.
As a senior social worker, you will be expected to:
- Manage a small complex caseload, carry out high quality integrated assessments in partnership with individuals, families, and carers, and with other professionals within the Team.
- Sharing the supervision of the team with the Team Manager, you will supervise staff, ensuring there is a focus on outcome focused, strengths-based practice, offering voice, choice and control.
- In conjunction with the Social Work Team Manager, be responsible for ensuring plans of care and support, utilise proportionate resources to meet identified needs and minimise risks to independence, contributing to the effective management of resources.
- Support the Social Work Team Manager in their role; supporting innovation and best practice to meet population needs, including supporting new staff in innovative roles.
The people we support can have long term complex challenges around their mental health, physical health and emotional well-being. You will be expected to undertake complex case work with individuals and their carers.
As a team, we undertake holistic assessments and collaboratively work together with the individual and those important to them to improve their quality of life. We support individuals to achieve their outcomes and develop person-centred Care and Treatment Plans. We strive to create an effective team around the person with a multi-disciplinary approach to ensure their needs and identified outcomes are met. Your role will involve being an allocated Care Coordinator for individuals in receipt of secondary mental health services as detailed within Part 2 of the Mental Health (Wales) Measure 2010.
As Care Coordinator, you will be appointed to work with individuals to coordinator their care and treatment and co-produce outcome focused Care and Treatment Plans. Your role will include undertaking risk assessments and promoting individuals’ rights by ensuring their wishes are taken into account. Your role will include promoting the independence and wellbeing of individuals, their families, and carers, focusing on ‘what matters’ to people. Where practicable, you will focus on prevention and self-management, enabling individuals to sustain independence through a combination of assessment, care and support and other practical interventions.
You will ensure choice and control for individuals and place the person at the centre of their care. You will ensure that the person’s voice and choice will be heard.
We are a supportive and welcoming team. As a team, we are ambitious in looking to develop innovative and creative ways to support the individual and those important to them.
We encourage informal conversation or visit prior to interview.
For further information, please contact:
Laura Griffiths (Team Manager) – [email protected].
The ability to greet customers through the medium of Welsh is a requirement for this post.
Protecting children, young people or adults at risk is a core responsibility of all council employees.
An Enhanced with Adults Barred list criminal records check by the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) is a requirement for this post.
A valid driving licence is requirement for this post.
The council’s Hybrid Working Policy applies to this post. This provides a framework for establishing how you will undertake working hours between your home and the office.
Temporary up to 12 months or until the post holder returns; whichever is earlier.
Closing Date: 08 July 2026
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