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B5 Social Worker with Recruitment Incentive

Job Type

Permanent

Region

East Hertfordshire

Salary

Location

£28,407 - £34,581

Posted Date

22 July 2024

Bishops Stortford

Closing Date

5 August 2024

We are looking for a band five social worker to join our adult community mental health service in Bishops Stortford.

As a member of our multi-disciplinary team, you will provide high-quality social care to adults facing mental health challenges.

Your main tasks will include assessment, care planning, and coordination, following a recovery framework that prioritizes individual choice and control. Supporting and assessing carers is also a crucial part of your role.


Main duties of the job

Join Our Community Team!

Whether you're a newly qualified Social Worker or have some experience, we have exciting opportunities . We seek enthusiastic, compassionate Social Workers who believe in recovery for people with severe mental health issues.

As a Community Mental Health Social Worker, you will manage a caseload, coordinate care, provide assessments, and deliver specific interventions for service users, their carers, and families. Flexibility and a positive, professional approach are essential. You should work well in a team, manage your workload, and show initiative.

An interest in mental health issues, understanding of Care Programme Approach, Care Management, and Safeguarding is essential. We support newly qualified Social Workers through the ASYE program.

Working for our organisation

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.

We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission

Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for 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. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

All Social Workers must be registered with Social Work England.

- To undertake comprehensive assessments and reviews, ensuring people meet Fair Access to Care Services (FACS) eligibility criteria, and are assessed using the self directed support Needs Outcome Assessment (NOA), process.
- To undertake such reviews as part of an integrated assessment of people’s health and social care needs.
- To offer direct support and advice to service users and their carers, through information and advice and ensure that those who do not meet FACS eligibility are appropriately signposted and supported.
- To ensure appropriate health and social care services are commissioned with and on behalf of service users, including the duty to offer direct payments, and that processes are in place for service users to be charged by the local authority for all social care services.
- To ensure that commissioned services allow choice to service users and carers, and focus on people living in the community with appropriate support and access to universal services.
- To undertake regular risk assessments and ensure that vulnerable people are kept safe.
- To undertake assessments of carers needs, including identifying contingency plans, and provision of support if appropriate.
- To liaise and negotiate with other agencies eg Adult Care Services, Children Schools and Families, Benefit Agency, Housing authorities and providers etc., for joint planning with, or on behalf of, service users.

Please see attached Job Description & Person Specification before applying for this role.

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