Social Workers policies and procedures (FOI)

​Request

A

Can you please send me information as to what the State of Jersey's ratified Policies and Protocols are for the Psychiatric Social Worker / Authorised Officer out of hours service provision is? Can you please include the date these policies and protocols came into effect?

B

Can you please tell me what the 2018 and 2019 Stand By and Call Out Rates for a Psychiatric Social Worker is set at?

C

Can you please tell me who has line management and operational responsibility for the Authorised Officers employed directly by, or as agency workers with, the States of Jersey?

D

Does the Director of Operations for Community and Social Services or the Director of Specialist Services have any line management or operational responsibility for the Authorised Officers employed directly by, or as agency workers with, the States of Jersey?

Response

A

There are no specific ratified policies or protocols relating to the Psychiatric Social Worker / Authorised Officer out of hours service provision

B

Payment for on-call will be made in accordance with Civil Service Circular 5/82, ie the total number of ‘call-out hours’ covered by the agreement multiplied by one quarter of the relevant hourly rate. The average grade / increment of the current employees on the roster in CS grade 11.0. Therefore, on-call payments will be calculated on CS grade 11.0. Payment when the Social Worker is required to attend to a call or situation will be made at three quarters of that same rate (ie 11.0)

C

Line management for Authorised Officers is attributed to the Interim Divisional Lead for Mental Health.

D

The current leadership arrangements are as stated above.