Social Worker

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT); Hemel Hempstead; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Join an outstanding organization dedicated to mental health care as a Social Worker. You will provide vital support for individuals with severe mental illnesses during their transition from inpatient care to community living. Become part of a passionate team at HPFT, working together to enhance the quality of life for those we serve.

Qualifications

• Qualified Social Worker with experience in mental health.
• Strong communication and risk management skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate safe, early discharges from inpatient rehab units.
• Provide support to individuals with severe mental illness.
• Assist service users to access community resources.

Skills

Empathy

Communication

Risk Management

Teamwork

Education

Social Work qualification

Job description

The Enhanced Rehabilitation Outreach Service (EROS) provides support to individuals with complex and enduring long term severe mental illness, at the point of discharge from inpatient rehabilitation services (both in-house and in the independent sector). The service provides a dedicated, integrated multi-disciplinary team of professionals, who aim to improve quality of life, promote hope, recovery and individual resilience and reduce reliance on crisis and inpatient services to service users. The team deliver evidence-based interventions and use a recovery focused approach, through co-produced plans of care to build resilience and improve wellbeing.

The team also provides advice and support to Community Mental Health Teams, Placement Services and other Providers to develop their capacity and capability to support service users with Serious Mental Health illnesses.

The service has been successful in both improving outcomes for individuals and reducing the reliance on inpatient services and overall length of stay. The service has introduced two additional pathways which will extend the teams current offer and enable more service users to access the service directly from the community (step up) or at point of discharge (step down) from an acute inpatient bed.

This Social Work post will provide specific in-reach to the inpatient rehab units to facilitate safe, early discharges.

The Enhanced Rehabilitation Outreach Service (EROS) Provides Support To Individuals With Complex And Enduring Long Term Severe Mental Illness, At The Point Of Discharge From Inpatient Rehabilitation Services (both In-house And In The Independent Sector). The Service Provides a Dedicated, Integrated Multi-disciplinary Team Of Professionals, Who Aim To Improve Quality Of Life, Promote Hope, Recovery And Individual Resilience And Reduce Reliance On Crisis And Inpatient Services To Service Users. The Team Deliver Evidence-based Interventions And Use a Recovery Focused Approach, Through Co-produced Plans Of Care To Build Resilience And Improve Wellbeing. Interventions Can Include

• Goal setting
• Symptom management
• Medication support
• Targeting negative symptoms and poor physical health
• Positive Risk Management planning
• Short term post transfer community support to service users from in house provision to ensure care package is in place and appropriate
• Supporting service users to access their local community
• Focused support to further improve activities of daily living (ADL) in a community setting
• Individual/group interventions aimed at improving socialisation and employment opportunities
• Advice and support to start the process of undertaking vocational or paid employment
• Advice and support with debt management and tenancy queries
  
  

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.

Our Trust Values Are

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: Ajoke Awonbiogbon Job title: Senior Social Worker Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01442 283480