Job summary
- Main area
- Social Worker
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job share
- Job ref
- 306-BEH-2113
- Employer
- Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Ann's Hospital
- Town
- Tottenham
- Salary
- £37,162 - £44,629 Per annum (pro rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 31/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Social Worker for Eating Disorder Inpatients
NHS AfC: Band 6
We have been working together in a Partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust for some time, with a single Chair and Chief Executive since 2021 and single Executive Team since 2022. We launched our North London Mental Health Partnership Strategy in May 2023 and in July 2023 our Boards agreed that coming together to create one new Trust is best for our service users, our staff and our local communities. Subject to final approvals, we will be formally established as one new Trust on 1 October 2024.
Our new trust website is: Home | North London Mental Health Partnership
Job overview
The Eating Disorders inpatient unit based at St Ann's Hospital, provides a comprehensive specialist inpatient service to the north central and north east London. The service is also a national provider of specialist eating disorder inpatient treatment. The inpatient unit is part of range of eating disorder services the Trust provides and is aimed at patients over the age of 18 years old with a primary diagnosis of anorexia nervosa. The post holder will take a lead in ensuring that social care needs are identified on admission and form a central part of the care plan. They will provide training, support and consultation to colleagues as well as ensuring that services are identified and in place to meet those identified social care needs upon discharge. The post holder will take a lead in liaising with secondary care teams that hold responsibility for delivering the social care needs on discharge and ensure that services are in place to prevent delayed discharges occurring. The post holder will also take a lead on the Transforming Care agenda with patients who have a comorbid learning disability.
Main duties of the job
Conduct triage and comprehensive social work assessments to inform recommendations and implement care pathways. Prepare accurate reports post-assessment in line with quality standards. Make social care judgments as situations evolve. High interpersonal skills are essential for managing complex, conflicting needs. Facilitate signposting/referrals and interventions in collaboration with relevant agencies, utilizing local service knowledge. Represent the team in strategic management of high-risk patients by attending clinical reviews and case conferences. Oversee patients, carers, and resources to aid the multidisciplinary team in care plans and risk management. Maintain professional practice in therapeutic interventions, including individual and group therapies. Plan, implement, and evaluate social work interventions considering patient and community risk. Provide specialist consultation to carers and others involved in patient care. Liaise with health/social service providers, manage time and resources to ensure high-quality care, and maintain confidential patient records. Provide accurate reports and statistics as instructed. Make appropriate referrals, liaise with inpatient/outpatient services, and assist clients under locality mental health teams. Promote mental health and community initiatives, raise awareness of eating disorders/mental health issues, and ensure services are culturally sensitive. Offer expert advice based on research evidence.
Working for our organisation
The partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.
In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
· To work closely with community mental health and social care teams to plan for care packages and residential support, including completing funding paperwork and, where needed, Care Act assessments and presenting or co-presenting cases to the funding panel.
· To follow up on matters relating to referrals, care packages and residential support once patients have been discharged from the ward.
· To liaise with the North London Collaborative Case Manager regarding complex case management and funding issues.
· To alternate between chairing and minuting community meetings on the ward.
· To complete Social Circumstances Reports and present them at Mental Health Tribunals and Managers Hearings.
· To liaise with AMHP services regarding Mental Health Act assessments, arranging for them to attend the ward, coordinating the assessments on the day, and providing information to the AMHPs to support their assessments.
· To set up CTR meetings for patients who are autistic or have learning disabilities, ensuring that all relevant information and documentation is provided to the panel.
· To carry out Mental Capacity Act assessments.
· To advise colleagues, including from the Outpatient Service and from the Day Programme, on housing, benefits, safeguarding and other matters relating to social care needs.
· To attend safeguarding meetings in relation to adults and children, providing an expert opinion on levels of risk.
· To deliver difficult news regarding care to patients and their families, including talks on substance use, decisions regarding leave and serving CTO recall papers.
· To provide professional letters regarding inpatients to external services, including the DWP, local authorities, universities and the Home Office.
· To plan and run therapeutic groups.
· To act as the safeguarding champion for the ward, investigating concerns, completing relevant documentation and referral and liaising with the Trust’s safeguarding team.
Person specification
Qualifications/ Registrations
Essential criteria
- Registration with HCPC
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice in social care
Desirable criteria
- Masters in Social Work
Skills/ Abilities
Essential criteria
- Experience in ward/community setting Supervising junior staff and student nurses Working with funding panels
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- The ability to provide consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Able to contain, explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress both directly with patients and indirectly via supervision or case reviews with other staff.
Desirable criteria
- Working with patients with eating disorders Working with patients with learning disabilities Knowledge of Transforming Care Good knowledge of the complications of eating disorders.
- Knowledge of the theory of specialised interventions in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g., personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc.).
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Able to contain, explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress both directly with patients and indirectly via supervision or case reviews with other staff.
- Experience of social work/care assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care, and inpatient settings.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse, and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of the application of clinical skills in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of facilitating groups.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or providing supervision for others.
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- The ability to demonstrate Trust values.
- Well-developed interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work independently and manage a busy caseload.
- Ability to reflect on own practice and critically appraise own performance.
- Positive “can do attitude.”
- Positive attitude to change.
- Ability to facilitate positive multi-disciplinary relationships.
- High level of organisational skills.
- Flexible, engaging, and approachable who can work quickly and responsively with both clients and the multidisciplinary team.
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the HCPC.
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
- Denford Muswizu
- Job title
- Ward Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02087026240
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