Job summary
- Main area
- Social Work
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- 32 hours per week (Job share ; Flexible working)
- Job ref
- 367-ACMS-8518
- Employer
- Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Prospect House, Watford WD173XE
- Town
- Watford
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Talking Therapies IAPT Social Worker
NHS AfC: Band 6
Values Based Screener
At Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust we are looking for people to join us who share our values and those of the NHS. Before your application can be considered please take part on our online values questionnaire, which you can find below. When you have finished you will be sent a 'completion code' by email, which will be valid for 6 months and required to submit your application form.
http://hpft.recruitforvalues.com/
Job overview
· Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an exceptional organisation with big ambitions, our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
· With a workforce of around 3,500 people and an annual income of some £330million this year, the Trust provides integrated health and social care services through a network of community and inpatient settings, serving diverse communities across Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hertfordshire and Norfolk. As a university NHS foundation trust, HPFT continues to develop strong links with the University of Hertfordshire, providing excellent learning and development opportunities, as well as strengthening our clinical research capability.
· Whilst it is a challenging period for the NHS, there has never been a more exciting time to join HPFT following our CQC rating of Outstanding awarded to us in April 2019.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work as a member of the Multi-disciplinary Team providing a high-quality social care service to adults of all ages accessing the support of The Talking Therapies Team.
The social work role in this team is to work alongside therapists to support clients to work through obstacles that may be preventing them from fully engaging with us. This may be at the beginning, during treatment, or toward the end of our services involvement, if intervention would benefit maintaining recovery.
Obstacles that clients face are of course multifaceted and individualised to the client. The social worker in the team is required to use their skillset to support, outsource/signpost and implement a support plan to assist in removing these barriers. Our focus is to enable recovery and promote social wellbeing.
This is a unique role where social work in its purest form can be exercised. This is to enable, empower and enhance clients’ social circumstances utlising local and statutory services.
Intervention is implemented using holistic and person centered lens to support the clients individual needs, enhance the service we provide and achieve the desired change to remove obstacles preventing recovery for our service users.
All applicants my be a registered social worker
Working for our organisation
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
· Manage care, plan, support, and review care needs in line with policy, procedures, and legislation.
· Provide direct support and advice to service users and their carers, through information and advice and ensure that those who do not meet Care Act eligibility are appropriately signposted and supported.
· 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.
· 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.
· Undertake joint working with Talking Therapy clinicians on complex cases where there is social care needs.
· Undertake regular risk assessments and ensure that vulnerable people are kept safe.
· Undertake assessments of carers needs, including identifying contingency plans, and provision of support if appropriate.
· Liaise and negotiate with other agencies e.g., Health and Community Services, Children’ s Services, Benefit Agency, Housing authorities and providers etc., for joint planning with, or on behalf of, service users.
· Ensure that accurate computer records of all work undertaken are kept up to date.
· Develop own knowledge and practice and contribute to the development of policy and evidence-based practice.
· Continuation of registration with Social Work England to ensure high standards of practice.
· Participate in regular supervision.
· Undertake the supervision and/or mentoring of unqualified staff and/or students as required.
· Contribute to multi-disciplinary working and, as part of that, to be an excellent advocate for social care.
· Use effective and appropriate listening and communication skills in order to gather information, make clinical / practice decisions, create records and refer to clinical reference literature during the communication.
· Retrieve and use information regarding appropriate health and social care provision, complying with the appropriate regulatory body and within ethical, legislative and organisational frameworks.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant post qualification experience
- Knowledge of legislation, theory and policy in relation to relevant care group
- Experience of undertaking assessments, focussed as personalisation, choice and control, and care planning.
- Understanding and experience of personal budgets and direct payments
- Experience of multidisciplinary working and ability to work collaborative.
- Experience of partnership working with service users and carers, demonstrating dignity and respect
Desirable criteria
- Experience of work as Approved Mental Health Professional and/or Best Interests Assessor
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Academic qualifications- Social work Degree
- Additional areas of training through short courses
- Membership of professional bodies
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Abigail Short
- Job title
- Team Leader/ Social Worker
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07717806919
- Additional information
As this role is unique in social work, please feel free to call me to have an informal talk about the post and how this is integrated within The Talking Therapies Team.
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