Senior Social Worker

Job summary

We are looking for a Senior Social Worker, with extensive mental health knowledge, educated to degree level who has completed their AMHP training and currently registered.

Are you an experienced clinician who is highly motivated with a range of transferrable skills and is enthusiastic about working with children, young people and families? We want to hear from you! In exchange you will be well supported within a friendly and well established team, with continuing opportunities for you and your ongoing professional development.

We are looking for people to join us to continue to build a successful service. We aim to continuously improve the service delivery and outcomes as a part of NSFT.

Main duties of the job

-To provide clinical leadership to the clinical team in the care, treatment and therapy of the client group, with a clear focus on clinical risk and its management.
-To influence, lead and motivate staff at all levels within the clinical environment to deliver high quality care.
-To provide expertise, support and advice to clinical practitioners regarding all aspects of clinical care including implementing best practise based on evidence-based practice and National Guidance.
-To sustain the clinically based training programme aimed at the development of staff within the clinical environment.
-To provide information, education and support for service users and their carers re coping with diagnosis and treatments.
-To interpret national guidelines and relevant research to inform local practice and procedures to achieve best practice.
-To maintain own expert status by developing training and improvement projects underpinned by research and legislation.
-To be member of the Trust Senior Nursing team and to contribute to relevant forums and meetings.
-Be able to travel independently

About us

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We're an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

Some of the benefits you can expect:

-NHS pension
-a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
-career progression
-starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
-staff physio service
-NHS discounts and many more

Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential
-Specialist Knowledge and training of working with Young people to Master level or equivalent level of knowledge.
-Current AMHP Approval

Desirable
-Recognised professional Assessors/Mentor Qualification

Other

Essential
-Ability to travel to all Trust locations if required

Experience

Essential
-Experience of working with individuals presenting with complex needs requiring multi agency care packages informing practice and MDT working
-Experience of working in mental health

Desirable
-Experience of running Psychotherapy groups with young people and parents.