Senior Social Worker

NHS; Stroud; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is offering a full-time permanent position for a Senior Social Worker within the Assertive Outreach Team in Stroud. The role focuses on care management for adults with complex mental health needs, ensuring personalized support to improve outcomes for vulnerable individuals and their families.

Qualifications

• Experience working with adults with enduring mental health problems.
• Knowledge of Early Intervention, Recovery, and Crisis Resolution approaches.
• Demonstrable ongoing professional development.

Responsibilities

• Care coordinating a designated caseload within CPA policy.
• Undertaking statutory assessments and coordinating service provision.
• Providing consultation on safeguarding legislation and mental health acts.

Skills

Communication

Empathy

Case Management

Collaboration

Education

Social Work qualification registered with Social Work England

Tools

Microsoft Office

ECDL

Job description

Go back Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Social Worker

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Job summary

We are very excited to be able to offer a Full time permanent Social Work post within the Assertive Outreach Team in Stroud based in Weavers croft. The post is between the hours of 9-5 Monday to Friday with occasional unsocial hours when needed. We are seeking an experienced Social Worker who is used to care management, working with complex mental health patients. Weavers Croft is a community base on site with other community teams to enable helpful information/ skills/ knowledge sharing and positive interface working.

The Assertive Outreach Team is a friendly, welcoming and dynamic team providing secondary care services to adults of working age who have complex needs and are reluctant to engage with mental health support services. You will offer support to their families and significant others, to provide the best possible outcomes for people experiencing psychosis, substance/alcohol use and are high risk of harm to self or other. The team is currently under review in alignment with intensive and assertive outreach review governed by NHS England. The service overall has received new recurrent funding making this an exciting time to join an expanding service where we can influence how to achieve the best outcomes for service users. We strive to ensure that locality services represent excellent quality, (safe and a positive experience) and good value, (efficient and effective).

Main duties of the job

The post will include care coordinating a designated caseload, working within CPA Policy and associated countywide risk procedures, travelling independently, use of IT skills and a working knowledge of legislation regarding safeguarding vulnerable adults, the MHA and MCA.

Social Work Specific:

• Arranging the provision or purchase of services to meet the assessed needs of individuals and their carers in more complex cases, whether within Gloucestershire or at a distance and to reassess in line with Care Act requirements.
• Undertake the statutory strengths based assessments to facilitate personalised provision of care and support.
• Working in accordance with statutory and legal requirements and offering specialist knowledge and consultation to the team on the Care Act, Mental Health Act, Human Rights Act, Housing Act and a range of social care policy issues including appropriate adult and property protection.
• Social Work provision within GHC Trust is currently undergoing service development to strengthen the Social Care management and service provision whilst maintaining integration alongside the development of a new Social Care Hub.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

About us

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.

Job responsibilities

Gloucestershire Health and Care is committed to embedding and providing personalised care through all of its services as part of our high-quality care strategy. The purpose of personalised care is to empower people to lead the lives they want to live. Personalised care starts with a conversation with people about what matters to them. It builds on what people can do, as well as addressing their health needs. Including new ways of working and delivering care, emphasising that we need to make effective use of the full range of our peoples skills and experience to deliver the best possible patient care. So we want to know What Matters to You and that you will share our values and join us on this very important journey.

Please refer to the Additional Information attachment before submitting your application.

Person Specification

QUALIFICATIONS

• Social Work qualification registered with the appropriate professional body (Social Work England).
• Evidence of Assessed and Supported Year in Employment or Completion of preceptorship programme if less than 1 year experience
• Evidence of continued professional development
• Evidence of formal post registration learning

LENGTH AND / OR NATURE OF EXPERIENCE

• Experience of working with Adults with enduring mental health problems. A sound evidenced based working knowledge of the management in the community of severe and enduring mental illness
• Working knowledge of Early Intervention, Primary Care, Recovery, Crisis Resolution & Home Treatment (CRHT) approach and social inclusion
• Experience of collaboration working with other agencies including the voluntary sector
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages, e.g. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher and Outlook
• European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL)

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

£37,338 to £44,962 a yearper annum (pro rata)