Mental Health Social Worker

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Uckfield; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare trust in Uckfield is seeking a qualified Social Worker for its community mental health team. The ideal candidate will focus on improving clients' lives through partnerships with various agencies, ensuring effective care planning. The position offers training, flexible work options, and a supportive environment in a trust rated 'Outstanding' for care.

Benefits

Access to wellbeing and support programmes

Excellent supervision programmes

Flexible working patterns

Discount schemes for gyms, shopping, and restaurants

Generous holiday entitlement

Qualifications

• Registered to practice with GSCC.

Responsibilities

• Lead Practitioner for complex/high risk patients.
• Conduct initial assessments of individuals and families.
• Complete risk assessments and review care plans.
• Contribute to risk management and safety planning.
• Support other clinical activities.
• Ensure evidence-based clinical practice.
• Provide supervision of junior staff.
• Offer expertise on safeguarding.

Job description

Are you ready to step into a pivotal role in adult community mental health services?

We are looking for a qualified Social Worker to join our dynamic Multi-disciplinary team based at the Millwood Unit in Uckfield which sits in beautiful countryside area near Ashdown Forest. It has a train link to central London and good road links to Brighton, Eastbourne and South Coast.

Millwood is a lively community Assessment and Treatment Service that offers a wide range of evidence-based treatments for people with severe and enduring mental health problems

This opportunity is open to experienced Social Workers (who will be paid at Band 6) and to newly qualified Social Workers (who will be offered a Band 5 to 6 development post where progression is subject to successful completion of the ASYE programme and Trust Appraisal process)

Main duties of the job

As a mental health social worker in the service, you will be focused on improving the lives of the people who use our service, working creatively with them and their carers to co-create care and safety plans that will help them achieve their goals and live as independently as possible. The key to successful outcomes often hinges on building effective partnerships with GPs, statutory agencies, and third sector providers and this wider systemic work is where our social workers can really make the difference.

We work with highly vulnerable people and we need the expertise of social workers to help us understand and help mitigate risks of abuse.

About us

Sussex Partnership places a huge focus on the wellbeing of our staff, as well as ensuring our reward packages reflect the immensely important work they do. As a Social Worker in our team, we can offer you: Access to numerous wellbeing and support programmes, run by our internal wellbeing team, Excellent supervision programmes, with ongoing opportunities for training and development, Flexible working patterns, Access to a host of discount schemes (including gyms, shopping, restaurants, and cars), A position within a trust rated as 'Outstanding' for caring and 'Good' overall by the CQC, Generous holiday entitlement (starting at 27 days + 8 bank holidays)

Job responsibilities

The main responsibilities of the job include:

• To be Lead Practitioner and coordinate care for caseload of the most complex/high risk patients
• To undertake initial assessments of individuals and their families
• To complete risk assessments, create and review care plans
• To contribute to risk management and safety planning
• To contribute to the Duty system
• To support other clinical activities
• To ensure that clinical practice is evidence-based and consistent with relevant NICE guidelines and Trust policies and procedures
• To provide supervision of junior staff and trainees where appropriate
• To provide expertise to the MDT regarding child and adult safeguarding

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered to practice with GSCC

Knowledge/Experience

• Knowledge of MHA Part 2 & 3
• Proven ability to devise and deliver discharge planning
• Previous experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team
• Sound knowledge of Safeguarding Adults and Children

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.