Senior Social Worker

Our welcoming and supportive Adult Community Mental Health Service in Ware has the opportunity to recruit into a Senior Social Worker post within the multidisciplinary team. You will be able to demonstrate skills to inspire, lead and manage staff in the delivery of the Care Act expectations for social care and safeguarding.

This a fantastic development opportunity to join an experienced group of clinicians and practitioners and develop your career with our services.

All Senior Social Workers must be registered with Social Work England.

Main duties of the job

As Senior Social Worker, you will be required to;

- Promote, lead and act in accordance with the principles of personalisation, working to promote wellbeing, and enabling individual’s rights to choice and control, in a multi disciplinary mental health team.
- Expected to give robust, consistent, and expert social care practice advice in partnership with other specialist senior social care colleagues.
- Support newly qualified social workers through the Assessed and Supported Year in Employment (ASYE), acting as an ASYE assessor and engagement in the ASYE moderation process.
- Undertake duties as an Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) or be willing to undertake AMHP training

In return at HPFT, we will:

- Support you to develop your skills to provide robust, consistent expert social care practice advice in partnership with other specialist senior social care colleagues including the professional leads for social care in the Trust.
- Leading company discounts and childcare vouchers
- Salary sacrifice schemes enabling staff to drive a new car or bike - saving on tax and insurance included
- Wellbeing activities - from mindfulness to yoga, pilates and our signature craft club join our monthly programme of regular and special events to support your wellbeing

Working for our organisation

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission
Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex 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.