Senior Social Work Assistant

Job summary

Are you looking to join an organisation where you really can make a difference every day? Are you compassionate, caring and striving to deliver the highest standards of patient care? If so, Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust welcomes your application for a Band 4 Senior Social Work Assistant.

This is a great opportunity for a highly motivated, dynamic and organised Band 4 practitioner to join the Adult Inpatient Division, Bed Management & Adult Inpatient Social Work Team. The team work closely with Adult Acute, PICU and Rehabilitation wards to help facilitate safe and effective admission and discharge to and from inpatient settings.

Within this fast paced demanding, but highly rewarding role, you can expect to gain a wide range of experience including knowledge and understanding around treatment pathways, available resources for service users leaving hospital environments and develop close working relationships with all support services across Lincolnshire.

This is a role with considerable responsibility; you'll be working alongside senior clinicians to ensure the best possible outcomes for all service users under the care of Adult inpatient Services.

If you're a talented individual who can deliver clinically and have an experienced knowledge of mental health, we would like to hear from you.

For further information please contact Danielle Dowse, Team Manager danielle.dowse1@nhs.net or 01522 307481

Main duties of the job

-To liaise with the Registered Social Care Professionals and carry out assigned duties delivering a variety of mental health and social care interventions to service users suffering from mental ill health.
-Provide direct social care support including short term social work intervention, rapid reablement and longer-term social care intervention under the direction of a qualified social worker, where applicable for joint-worked cases.
-Provide direct physical, social and psychological care to service users under supervision in accordance with individualised support plans, reporting about the service user's condition to qualified staff and enabling service users to achieve defined outcomes set out in their support plans.
-Exchange factual information with service users, who may have barriers to understanding using reassurance, tact and empathy.
-Contribute to the assessment and analysis of clinical and non-clinical situations, making routine judgments to resolve straight forward problems.

About us

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're really proud of this!

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 groups 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. Visitbeinlincolnshire.com to find out more.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Applicants must have the right to work in the UK - sponsorship is not available. Please provide details of the visa type and expiry date in your application. Failure to provide the required information will result in your application being rejected.

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.

When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.

We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you which include:

-Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy
-Competitive annual leave allowance
-Car leasing scheme
-NHS pension scheme
-Free eye tests
-Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme
-Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential
-Cavendish Care Certificate or willingness to work towards resourced by LPFT
-NVQ 3 in Care or equivalent
-NVQ 3 in Promoting Independence or equivalent or working towards archievement
-Level 4 qualification in health and social care plus experience within a health and social care setting to diploma level

Desirable
-Training in mental health awareness or any other training relevant to this post
-NVQ 2 in Care or equivalent

Experience

Essential
-Previous relevant experience of working with people with mental health problems as a nursing assistant grade or equivalent within a health and social care setting
-Knowledge of risk assessment principles
-Experience in providing support for people in the community
-Experience of working with people with mental health needs

Skills

Essential
-Effective communication with service user, other members of the team and outside agencies
-A patient and empathic approach. Clear and accurate clinical note keeping
-Quick decision making skills- calm approach and have the ability to liaise and consult with others colleagues if required
-Plan and organise their day and ensure that their whereabouts are known
-IT skills