Mental Health Social Worker - City and North East

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust; Oxford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking passionate social workers to join their dynamic mental health team in Oxford. This role offers the chance to make a meaningful impact on the lives of individuals with mental health conditions. You will be part of a supportive environment that emphasizes professional development and values the social perspective of mental health. With excellent mentoring and a structured ASYE programme, you will have the opportunity to grow your skills while providing essential support and advocacy for service users. If you're motivated to make a difference and thrive in a collaborative setting, this position is perfect for you.

Benefits

27 days annual leave

NHS Discounts

Competitive pension scheme

Lease car scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Mental Health First Aiders

Staff accommodation

Career progression opportunities

Support groups for staff

Qualifications

• Newly qualified social workers encouraged to apply.
• Strong foundation in social work values and ethics provided.

Responsibilities

• Conduct statutory assessments and provide advocacy support.
• Work with multi-disciplinary teams to improve mental health outcomes.

Skills

Strengths-based social work

Advanced relationship skills

Safeguarding knowledge

Statutory social care assessments

Mental Health Act knowledge

Care Act knowledge

Education

Degree in Social Work

Post-qualifying professional development

Job description

Do you have experience working as an Inpatient or Community Social Worker?

Do you want to transform the lives of people with mental health conditions?

We welcome applicants who are newly qualified and who are interested in a Band 5 development post.

We are a friendly and dynamic integrated mental health team in the beautiful City of Oxford and we are looking for strengths-based social workers, who are committed to promoting the social perspective of mental health. Based in Headington, Shabs and Hilda will actively promote for you to be a relational-based social worker and enhance your social work leadership skills to enable you to flourish and develop in your role.

We invest in higher level post qualifying professional development and our monthly social work forum is where our energetic collective meet to share ideas and talk about the messy stuff.

Newly qualified? Don’t worry! We will give you the opportunity to develop a strong foundation in social work values and ethics (and all the complicated legal bits in between!). Our ASYE programme is excellent and you will have a protected case load for the duration of the supported year of practice.

You will play a crucial role in improving mental health outcomes for our service users. You will bring a distinctive social and rights-based perspective to the work that you do and promote this within the multi-disciplinary team and beyond. You will liaise with other agencies to ensure that the needs and rights of people with lived experience of mental health are at the front and centre of services and interventions.

You will use your advanced relationship skills to work with people to make positive and self-directed change and support them to work towards recovery as defined by them. You will provide advocacy support and understand the important role of carers, working in partnership to support them especially at times of crisis.

Providing statutory social care assessments under the Care Act and s.117 after-care Mental Health Act is a key feature of the role and you will provide a strengths-based, rights-focused assessment to identify and meet need, ensuring timely review of packages of support.

Working with complexity and risk is a key feature of the role and you will use your safeguarding adults knowledge to identify abuse and neglect and work with the person and other agencies to seek ways in which to protect and safeguard the person. At times, you will need to use legislative frameworks such as the Mental Capacity Act and Mental Health Act to support people who are unable to make decisions for themselves, balancing and protecting the rights of people and others.

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.

Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible.

Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”

Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”

At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Competitive pension scheme
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team

For further details / informal visits contact:

Name: Shabs Akhter
Job title: Social work manager
Email address: [e-mail]
Telephone number: 07884 996920

At Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust we want to employ people not just with experience, but with the aptitude and motivation to succeed and whose values resonate with our own.

Therefore, if you don’t meet all the requirements of the role and are unsure about applying but are excited about the opportunity, please do get in touch. We will be happy to discuss the requirements in more detail ahead of making a written application.