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Salary for this role£51,657 – £58,785 a year
Health and Care route minimum£25,000 a year
Pay basisNational pay scales (NHS bands)
This occupation falls under the Health and Care Worker route. Salaries set by national pay scales (NHS bands) at or above the relevant band rate typically meet the occupation's requirement.
Closest occupation match: SOC 2461, Social workers. Pay for this occupation is set by national pay scales (NHS bands), so no single Home Office going rate applies.
Individual eligibility depends on personal circumstances. These figures are public reference information, not advice or a verdict on this job.
Role description
Job summary
Are you an experienced Social Worker seeking promotion?
Are you looking to develop into leadership & take your social care skills in the field of Adult Mental Health further?
Do you want to be part of an energetic & dynamic team in the heart of the south east Hertfordshire community, working for an award-winning, outstanding Trust?
We are looking for a Band 7 Senior Social Worker to join the Adult Community Mental Health Service in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire.
You must hold a full valid driving license and have access to a car to use regularly for business purposes is essential (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will:
promote and lead the social care agenda, acting in accordance with the principles of personalisation, working to promote wellbeing, and enabling individual's rights to choice and control
carry out complex assessments of need, plan and deliver services and review outcomes with the individual, their personal support networks and support providers
ensure practice within the team is responsive, inclusive and community based with a clear focus on outcomes and bring your professional expertise to your work with complex cases
supervise the social care staff within the team and support the wider team with social care
manage the provision of assessments under the Care Act 2014 and the reviews of packages of care
work collaboratively with community partners to ensure individuals and families are supported and their needs are met
act as a champion and leader of social care within the locality/quadrant
be professionally registered.
In return, we can offer you:
leadership and management training opportunities
5% on top of basic salary high cost allowance supplement (subject to a minimum and a maximum payment pro rata)
27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service) plus bank holidays (pro rata where applicable)
One of the UK's best pension schemes
Comprehensive health and wellbeing services
Special leave for family and personal reasons
NHS Car Lease Scheme
Employee Assistance Programme
About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
Our family of over 4000 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 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. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.
The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Job Summary:Senior Social Workers are a key part of the senior management team and the focus of the role is to promote, lead and act in accordance with the principles of personalisation, ensuring the team are working to promote wellbeing, and enabling individuals rights to choice and control. In doing so they will carry out complex assessments of need, plan and deliver services and review outcomes with the individual, their personal support networks and support providers.
Senior Social Workers will lead the Team's social care agenda and will supervise the social care staff within the Team. As a Senior Social Worker you will act as a champion and leader of social care within a locality/quadrant to ensure a focus on outcome based interventions. You will be expected to give robust, consistent expert social care practice advice in partnership with other specialist senior social care colleagues. You will reinforce the need to deliver high quality, cost effective social care services to service users and their carers focused on the principles of choice, control and independence, as well as ensuring their safety. You will have a small caseload of the most complex cases and you will manage the provision of assessments and reviews of social care intervention.
Partnership working is a key component of this post both within and outside the Trust and you will need to be innovative in ensuring that there is a range of appropriate services locally to support individual recovery journeys. You will work with community partners to address complex social issues and will be encouraged to think innovatively about how to address local concerns with our community partners.
You will be expected to work in partnership with service users and carers so that they can be empowered, and services can be improved as a result of feedback of their experiences.
All Senior Social Workers must be registered with Social Work England.
For a more detailed description, please see attached Job Description and Personal Specification.
Person Specification
KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE
Essential
An appropriate professional social work qualification
Registration with General Social Care Council
Education to degree level
Masters Degree or equivalent training
Approved Mental Health Professional training and qualification (or prepared to undertake training within a year of appointment)
Relevant post-qualifying training for social workers
Desirable
Other post-qualifying training e.g. CBT, family therapy
Best Interests Assessment training
AREAS OF EXPERIENCE
Essential
Stong post qualification experience with demonstrable evidence of excellent practice at a high level
Extensive knowledge of legislation, statutory guidance, theory and policy in relation to relevant adult and children's social care.
Experience of undertaking assessments,focused as personalisation, choice and control, and care planning Understanding and experience of personal budgets and direct payments
Experience of supervising and mentoring staff
Experience of multidisciplinary working and evidence of collaborative work
Experience of partnership working with service users and carers, demonstrating dignity and respect particularly in very challenging situations
Experience of work as Approved Mental Health Professional.
Desirable
Experience of work as a Best Interests assessor
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Essential
Excellent ability to communicate with a wide range of stakeholders including service users and carers, other professional colleagues, members of other organisations and local communities, verbally and in writing.
Evidence of successful management of difficult meetings.
Ability to manage highly sensitive information
Experience of using electronic recording systems and ability to produce accurate, appropriate and timely reports
ANALYTICAL SKILLS
Essential
Ability to analyse service user and carer information.
Experience of undertaking small scale audits and surveys.
Desirable
Understanding of basic research methods
DIVERSITY
Essential
Demonstrable ability to working sensitively with diverse needs and environments
Commitment to anti-discriminatory practice
PHYSICAL SKILLS
Essential
Ability to visit and attend meetings at a variety of locations and environments Experience of using computer - PC
literate to ECDL standard
Able to travel between bases and offices, as required, using suitable mode of transport.
PHYSICAL EFFORT
Essential
Ability to meet timescales and respond to crises and appropriate
MENTAL EFFORT
Essential
Flexibility and ability to respond to a variety of tasks, and to prioritise own workload
Ability to manage others and convey information which may be contentious sensitively so that it achieves required improvements and outcomes
EMOTIONAL EFFORT
Essential
Ability to deal with distressing and sometimes aggressive behaviour of service users, carers and colleagues
GENERAL
Essential
Experience of working in an integrated health and social care environment
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Interested? Apply while it's open.Closes 29 September · Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust has 21 other sponsored roles if this one goes.
