Social Work Support Worker | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust; Huntingdon; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 33,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional health organization in Huntingdon is seeking a Social Work Support Worker to join a diverse mental health team. The role involves working directly with service users and their families to provide support, assess needs, and deliver person-centred care. Successful candidates will possess good communication skills, a positive personality, and a commitment to promoting independence and recovery-focused principles. This position requires travel across the county and values teamwork and community engagement.

Benefits

Health and wellbeing support

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Good basic level of education required.
• Ability to travel independently around the county.
• Dynamic and positive personality to help achieve outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Work with service users to provide focused interventions.
• Assess need and eligibility of service users supported by the team.
• Deliver person-centred care and support.

Skills

Good communication skills

Teamwork

Independence

Education

Good basic level of education

Job description

Social Work Support Worker required to join a busy and diverse mental health social work team in the north of the county.

Our team primarily supports Older People who have previously or are currently experiencing mental health needs and require additional care and support, extending that support and guidance to carers and family as a holistic approach to wellbeing.

This role involves working directly with service users and their families, lone working or in partnership with other professionals and organisations, and requires a dynamic, positive personality to help achieve the best outcomes for our service users and team.

You will have a good basic level of education and be able to travel independently around the county.

Responsibilities

• To work with eligible users of Older Peoples Social Services to provide resilience and independence focused interventions. This will be achieved through ongoing support, practical assistance and problem resolution under the supervision of Social care.
• To assess need and eligibility of service users supported by the team.
• To contribute to the regular reviews of service users supported by the team.
• To ensure these reviews in conjunction with MDT colleagues support the transforming lives and care act agenda.
• To deliver person centred care and support focusing on collaborative relationships. This will include facilitating and empowering the person to develop personal and social networks that are meaningful to them, and to aid and facilitate what the person defines as ‘their good life’.
• Where appropriate to work in partnership with families and carers to ensure the person’s individual social care needs are met.

Key Responsibilities

• The primary aim of this post is to maximise people’s independence by promoting recovery focused principles and values.
• To support people to learn new or regain forgotten skills.
• To enhance their confidence to achieve meaningful opportunities within their everyday routines in a timely manner.
• To develop their social support network via family, friends, carers and the wider community.
• To support the person to meet the outcomes identified which are specific, measurable and achievable.
• Work with people to facilitate access and engage in a range of socially inclusive and vocational community-based facilities.
• To facilitate the development of appropriate professional relationships based on respect and promote hope; help people gain access to resources including benefits, welfare rights, voluntary work, social support and legal rights by offering practical support, advice and information.
• Help to identify early signs of relapse by monitoring the person’s progress, level of functioning and mental state, and alert the appropriate staff involved in the individual’s care.
• Participate in regular planning and review meetings with other appropriate professionals.
• To positively develop links with other support services within CPFT, PCC and voluntary sector organisations (Recovery Coach, Community Connectors, Peer Support Workers, Volunteers, Recovery College).
• Maintain adequate records as required by existing procedures, and contact named professionals when necessary.
• Attend and participate in wider team assessment/care plan review meetings as appropriate.
• To develop and maintain good working relationships with statutory, independent and voluntary agencies to support people in achieving their goals; participate in the ongoing review of the STRR worker’s role and contribute to the trust-wide process.
• Work flexibly as required by the individual and the Employer, which may require working outside normal office hours.
• To support people to maximise independence and choice, and to help them overcome barriers to social inclusion by identifying and challenging mental health stigma and discrimination.
• To have good team working skills and the ability to work independently within the community and Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Foundation Trust values.
• To complete mandatory training as required and maintain your continuing professional development, keeping your professional skills up to date.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high‑quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people’s mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.

As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under‑represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.

Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.

For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.

This advert closes on Sunday 28 Dec 2025.