Social Worker | Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

Pennine Care NHS FT; Ashton-under-Lyne; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A mental health services organization in the United Kingdom is seeking an experienced Social Worker to provide essential support in the Community Rehabilitation Team. The role involves managing a caseload, delivering specialist social work interventions, and working within a multidisciplinary team focused on recovery. Applicants should have significant experience with mental ill health. This position promotes flexible working hours and offers various employee benefits.

Benefits

Generous annual leave

Flexible working opportunities

Access to Continued Professional Development

Health and Wellbeing activities

Staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel

Qualifications

• Significant experience working with relapsing and remitting mental ill health.
• Ability to engage with service users and their families in planning.
• Knowledge of Local Authority systems and procedures.

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload of service users using a strengths based approach.
• Provide specialist social work interventions.
• Guide team in understanding local social work functions.
• Champion the social model of care for clients.
• Contribute to risk assessments and management plans.

Skills

Experience in mental health

Understanding of social determinants

Biopsychosocial approach

Strengths based and trauma informed approach

Job description

The Community Rehabilitation Team is looking to recruit an experienced Social Worker to join our multidisciplinary team. The successful candidate will have significant experience of working with people with relapsing and remitting mental ill health, including experience of working across a number of services, including secondary care and mental health inpatient services.

The team supports service users to transition from inpatient rehabilitation facilities to living in the community, supporting people to improve their quality of life and work towards achieving their goals.

The team has an emphasis on the Recovery Model, working with service users using a strengths based and trauma informed approach to maximise their independence and autonomy, to improve their quality of life.

You will work with a team of experienced practitioners using biopsychosocial, evidence based interventions. Many of the people we work with have needs related to experiences of oppression, abuse, trauma and/or neurodivergence, therefore a deep understanding of how social determinants impact mental health and wellbeing is key.

We work with Local Authority partners whilst they fulfil their statutory functions, planning for discharges and supporting keeping people safe and well in the community by promoting wellbeing.

The team is a trust wide service covering all five boroughs of Pennine Care and it is essential that you drive to enable you to travel across the Trust footprint.

We are based at Trust HQ in Ashton Under Lyne. Our core hours are Monday to Friday 9am-5pm.

Responsibilities

• To be responsible for a caseload of service users under the care of the Community Rehabilitation Team, taking a strengths based and solution focused approach to supporting people in their recovery journey.
• To provide specialist social work interventions to service users and their carers / families, and involve them in all planning, helping to develop social resilience, motivation and daily living skills.
• To offer guidance to the Community Rehabilitation Team regarding social care and social work knowledge, including legal literacy and Local Authority systems. Where necessary, make referrals to Local Authorities who fulfil statutory social work functions, or guide members of the team in understanding Local Authority systems, processes and procedures.
• Champion the social model of care for services users whilst taking a biopsychosocial approach to meeting service users’ holistic goals.
• To be part of a multi-disciplinary team providing strengths based and recovery focused support.
• Contribute to risk assessments and the development of management plans, including transitional arrangements between hospital and community settings, using positive risk taking approaches where indicated as appropriate, promoting choice and control.

Benefits

• Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
• Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance.
• Access to Continued Professional Development.
• Involvement in improvement and research activities.
• Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service.
• Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel.

All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.

Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification to give you the best chance of being shortlisted.

This advert closes on Monday 8 Dec 2025.