Senior Social Worker

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT); Hemel Hempstead; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) in North West Hertfordshire is recruiting a Senior Social Worker to join the Adult Community Mental Health Service (ACMHS). You will work across two teams (Dacorum and St.

Albans) to promote safe, person-centred care within community settings. You will oversee safeguarding responses, develop risk-mitigating plans, and make complex decisions in collaboration with leadership and multidisciplinary colleagues.

Qualifications

• Qualified social worker with HCPC registration.
• Experience in safeguarding adults enquiries.
• Knowledge of Care Act 2014 and safeguarding duties.

Responsibilities

• Oversee safeguarding responses and coordinate actions with leadership.
• Identify safeguarding plans to mitigate risk to the person.
• Make decisions in complex situations with a person-centered approach.
• Develop personalised solutions for adults at risk of abuse and their families.
• Work with two teams (Dacorum and St. Albans) to deliver community care.

Skills

Safeguarding

Risk assessment

Decision making

Person-centered care

Team leadership

Education

Social Work degree

HCPC registration

Job description

We have a vacancy for an Senior Social Worker to join the Adult Community Mental Health Service (ACMHS) in North West Hertfordshire.

Are you interested in working with an outstanding Trust to develop and deliver community treatment in mental health? We welcome diversity in our workforce and encourage applicants from people of all ages and backgrounds, such as those with lived experience of mental health difficulties.

This role covers two mental health teams; Dacorum and St. Albans.

The Successful Candidate Will

• oversee and co-ordinate responses to safeguarding concerns raised working closely with members of the leadership teams
• identify safeguarding plans to mitigate risk to the person
• make decisions where situations are complex
• use a person centered approach to develop personalised solutions for adults at risk of abuse, and their families
• have experience of undertaking Safeguarding Adults enquiries in Hertfordshire
• have a good working knowledge of social care and safeguarding duties under the Care Act 2014.

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 4000 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!

Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Helen Dudeney Job title: Service Line Lead Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07833235057