Social Worker Band 6

Would you like to join an innovative, dynamic and ambitious team committed to delivering the best possible care for our service-users?

The Enhanced Rehabilitation Outreach Service (EROS) is looking for a compassionate and enthusiastic Social Worker to welcome into our team. EROS provides rehabilitation interventions and support to individuals with complex and enduring long term severe mental illness in the community.

The service provides a dedicated, integrated multi-disciplinary team of professionals, who aim to improve quality of life, promote hope, recovery, and individual resilience, and reduce reliance on crisis and inpatient services

We welcome diversity in our workforce and encourage applicants from people of all ages and backgrounds, such as those with lived experience of mental health difficulties.

Main duties of the job

All Social Workers must be registered with Social Work England

As a Social Worker, you will work as a member of the multi-disciplinary team, providing high quality social care services to adults of all ages experiencing mental ill-health. The core functions of the role will be to provide assessment including connected lives assessments, care planning and coordination of care from a social perspective to adults accessing the service. You will deliver recovery-focused care and support to service users and their carers that is focused on the principles of choice, control, and independence, as well as ensuring safety.

You will actively address adversity and will support adults at risk of social inclusion and assist adults accessing support to deal with a range of adverse circumstances. You will actively champion equality and diversity and be expected to challenge discrimination in all it's forms as part of your role.

You will hold a caseload which may comprise of adults experiencing a wide range of mental health and social care needs. You will ensure that you maintain constant reflection and development of your practice and will ensure your continuing professional development in line with the standards set out by the professional regulator, Social Work England.

About us

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 4,500 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.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To undertake comprehensive assessments and reviews, for people who may present with a high risk, or those with significant interpersonal, social, legal and/or environmental complexities, ensuring people are assessed appropriately against social care eligibility criteria as defined by The Care Act 2014.

To take a lead in the promotion of adult safeguarding practice and undertake safeguarding enquiries and contribute to the provision of care plans that protect both adults and children from abuse.

To offer direct support to service users and their carers, and to colleagues, through information and advice, to ensure that those who do not meet social care eligibility are appropriately signposted and supported.

To ensure that 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 the social care services they receive, if applicable.

To undertake regular risk assessments and ensure that vulnerable people are kept safe.

To be skilled in partnership working and identify, develop, and facilitate a wide range of recovery-focused community services, ensuring that colleagues within the locality are also aware of developments and best practice.

To ensure the involvement of service users and their carers to that the Trust can learn from their experiences to make improvements to service delivery.

To ensure accurate computer records of all work undertaken are kept up to date.

To provide both management and reflective supervision to newly qualified social workers and unregistered social care staff.

To undertake duties as an Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) or be willing to undertake AMHP training.

To participate in your own regular supervision and ensure regular reflection on your own practice as both a social worker and AMHP.

To undertake other tasks and duties which form part of the delegated social care responsibilities accepted by the Trust on behalf of Hertfordshire County Council.

To carry out any other duties as appropriately identified by your line manager.

Person Specification

Knowledge and qualifications

Essential
-An appropriate professional social work qualification
-Education to degree level
-Registration with Social Work England
-Training in principles and application of Outcomes focused assessments and personalisation
-Training and experience in Safeguarding

Desirable
-Approved Mental Health Professional/Best Interests Assessment Training

Experience

Essential
-Significant post qualification experience
-Knowledge of legislation, theory and policy in relation to relevant care group.
-Experience of undertaking assessments, focused as personalisation, choice and control, and care planning.
-Experience of multidisciplinary working and ability to work collaboratively.
-Experience of work as Approved Mental Health Professional and/or Best Interests Assessor.
-Experience of partnership working with service users and carers, demonstrating dignity and respect.