Social Worker

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LPFT NHS); Grantham; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 43,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization dedicated to providing integrated social care services. As a Social Worker, you will play a crucial role in supporting service users and their families, promoting their well-being through evidence-based practices. With a focus on professional development, you will have opportunities for training and supervision while working within a collaborative multi-disciplinary team. This role not only offers the chance to make a significant impact in the community but also to grow in a supportive environment recognized for its outstanding staff morale and commitment to high-quality care. If you are passionate about mental health and social care, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Flexible Working Options

Training Opportunities

Diversity Support

Staff Networks

Qualifications

• Post-qualifying experience in mental health is essential.
• Knowledge of mental health legislation and risk assessments required.

Responsibilities

• Develop core skills and participate in management and leadership.
• Engage with service users and provide evidence-based interventions.

Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Communication Skills

Mental Health Knowledge

Risk Assessment

Engagement Skills

Education

Degree in Social Work

HCPC Registration

Management/Leadership Training

Tools

Data Protection Systems

Standardized Assessment Tools

Job description

Employer: Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Employer type: NHS

Site: Sycamore Centre

Town: Grantham

Salary: £28,407 - £42,618 per annum

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 14/02/2025 23:59

Social Worker

Band 5 or Band 6

Job overview

The service is designed to provide an integrated model of social care that promotes a positive experience for service users and carers across the whole service. LPFT has a Section 75 agreement under the National Health Service Act (2006) where Lincolnshire County Council has devolved their assessment and care management duties to LPFT. Social work in the Trust is delivered through a Community Social Care Resource where social care staff are aligned to the integrated community teams but are managed and supervised from within the social care resource. Three distinct Social Work teams exist covering the East, West and South of the county respectively. Each team has a Team Manager and managers are expected to work closely in order to provide a consistent service across the county.

As a service, we hold quarterly social work development days to assist with continued professional development. Peer supervision groups meet regularly, and one-to-one social work-led management supervision will be provided.

Main duties of the job

1. Develop core skills towards becoming a more competent practitioner within a specialist service through the guidance of the National and Local competency frameworks.
2. Participate in and provide management, leadership, and supervision for more junior staff.
3. Contribute positively to multi-disciplinary and multi-agency teamwork.
4. Ensure evidence-based practice and research awareness is used as the foundation for the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of care.
5. Engage with service users and their families/carers, developing therapeutic relationships, and providing evidence-based, psychosocial interventions in a variety of settings.
6. Promote service user and carer involvement; ensuring choices are embedded into the philosophy of care.
7. Empower people to identify and address specific needs in relation to their health and well-being.
8. Ensure social work perspectives and values are supported and represented within the multidisciplinary approach.
9. Keep up to date with current practices and issues in Mental Health and Social Work.
10. Assess complex health and well-being needs, develop, monitor, and review care and support plans to meet specific needs.

Working for our organisation

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism, and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high-quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top-scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive.

We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks, and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge, or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable, and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1. Organise own time and prioritise service user care in accordance with need.
2. Work independently but with regular support as appropriate from the team extending to the wider multi-disciplinary team.
3. Promote and maintain effective verbal and non-verbal communication with individuals and their families/carers, utilising creative engagement techniques, and taking into account developmental stage and cultural differences.
4. Undertake initial and ongoing risk assessments, utilising standardized tools, in order to develop accurate care plans.
5. Work effectively and collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team through establishing and maintaining excellent working relationships with team members.
6. Display effective, appropriate verbal, non-verbal, and written communication skills, including the ability to present information, provide training and educational materials, and formal reports as required, whilst adhering to Trust policy. Maintain accurate, contemporaneous records in accordance with Trust policy, and input data into information systems within agreed time scales, in accordance with data protection, Freedom of Information Act 1999, and other relevant Trust policies.
7. Establish and maintain links with a variety of statutory and non-statutory providers, including the formation of multi-agency forums.
8. Requires keyboard skills for inputting into various systems.
9. Requires the ability to be independently mobile and able to travel across South Lincolnshire in a timely manner.

Person specification

Experience

• Post-qualifying experience in mental health.
• Knowledge of mental health issues and legislation relating to mental health.
• Experience in carrying out comprehensive mental health and risk assessments and providing subsequent psychosocial interventions.
• Experience of own caseload management.
• Experience of supervision and training of junior, learners, and unqualified staff.

Qualifications

• Social Work Qualification, e.g., C.S.S., C.Q.S.W., Dip/SW, Degree in Social Work or equivalent qualification in Social Work.
• Currently registered with HCPC.
• Willingness to undertake Approved Mental Health Professional training and work.
• Willingness to undertake Practice teacher training and work.
• PQ Consolidation module or equivalent.
• Approved Mental Health Professional.
• Management/Leadership training.

Special Requirements

• Ability to travel independently throughout the county without the use of public transport.

Skills

• An understanding of the social perspective on mental illness.
• Possesses good interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Demonstrates a reflective and self-critical approach to clinical work.
• Excellent engagement skills through assertive outreach principles.

As an ethical recruiter, we will not pursue applications from red list countries as defined by the World Health Organisation. In order to pursue and apply for this role, you must have UK NHS experience.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.