Senior Social Worker

NHS; Welwyn Garden City; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in Welwyn Garden City is seeking an experienced Senior Social Worker to join their Adult Community Mental Health Service. You'll lead and manage staff, provide expert social care advice, and undertake complex assessments, ensuring the delivery of high-quality care. The role offers excellent development opportunities in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Company discounts

Childcare vouchers

Salary sacrifice schemes

Wellbeing activities

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years post-qualification experience at advanced level.
• Experience in undertaking assessment focused on personalisation and care planning.
• Knowledge of personal budgets and direct payments.

Responsibilities

• Promote wellbeing and enable individuals' rights.
• Support newly qualified social workers through assessment processes.
• Undertake complex assessments for high-risk individuals.

Skills

Expert social care practice advice

Multidisciplinary collaboration

Understanding of legislation

Supervision and mentoring

Assessment and care planning

Education

Professional social work qualification

Registration with Social Work England

Masters Degree or equivalent training

Relevant post-qualifying training

Job description

Job summary

Our welcoming and supportive Adult Community Mental Health Service in Ware has the opportunity to recruit into a Senior Social Worker post within the multidisciplinary team. You will be able to demonstrate skills to inspire, lead and manage staff in the delivery of the Care Act expectations for social care and safeguarding.

This a fantastic development opportunity to join an experienced group of clinicians and practitioners and develop your career with our services.

All Senior Social Workers must be registered with Social Work England.

Main duties of the job

As Senior Social Worker, you will be required to;

• Promote, lead and act in accordance with the principles of personalisation, working to promote wellbeing, and enabling individual's rights to choice and control, in a multi disciplinary mental health team.
• Expected to give robust, consistent, and expert social care practice advice in partnership with other specialist senior social care colleagues.
• Support newly qualified social workers through the Assessed and Supported Year in Employment (ASYE), acting as an ASYE assessor and engagement in the ASYE moderation process.
• Undertake duties as an Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) or be willing to undertake AMHP training

In return at HPFT, we will:

• Support you to develop your skills to provide robust, consistent expert social care practice advice in partnership with other specialist senior social care colleagues including the professional leads for social care in the Trust.
• Leading company discounts and childcare vouchers
• Salary sacrifice schemes enabling staff to drive a new car or bike -saving on tax and insurance included
• Wellbeing activities - from mindfulness to yoga, pilates and our signature craft club join our monthly programme of regular and special events to support your wellbeing

About us

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission

Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

Job responsibilities

• Be a champion of social care with a comprehensive understanding of legislation and statutory guidance.
• Maintain regular links and attend meetings with the corporate Social Work and Safeguarding Team, and keep up to date with accurate, consistent, and robust social care, legal and practice advice, and support to locality staff.
• Undertake the most complex assessments and reviews, for people who may present with a high risk, or those with significant interpersonal, social, legal and/or environmental complexities, ensuring people are assessed appropriately against social care eligibility criteria as defined by The Care Act 2014.
• Offer direct support to service users and their carers, and to colleagues, through information and advice, to ensure that those who do not meet social care eligibility are appropriately signposted and supported.

Person Specification

Essential:

• An appropriate professional social work qualification
• Registration with General Social Work England
• Education to degree level
• Masters Degree or equivalent training
• Approved Mental Health Professional training and qualification (or prepared to undertake training within a year of appointment)
• Relevant post-qualifying training for social workers
• Minimum 5 years post-qualification experience with demonstrable evidence of excellent practice at advanced level
• Extensive knowledge of legislation, statutory guidance, theory, and policy in relation to adult and children's social care
• Experience of undertaking assessment focused on personalisation, choice and control, and care planning
• Understanding of and experience of use of personal budgets and direct payments
• Experience of supervising and mentoring others
• Evidence of multidisciplinary and collaborative working
• Evidence of partnership working with service users and carers, demonstrating dignity and respect, particularly in very challenging situations

Desirable:

• Other post-qualifying training e.g. CBT, family therapy
• Best Interests Assessment training

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.