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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under‑represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex‑armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Social Worker within the Secure & SPLD Division within Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust. We are looking to recruit a dynamic and skilled Social Worker into a band 6 Forensic Social work post at Rowan View Medium Secure Hospital. We are keen to consider applicants from different practice areas of social work with transferable skills and will support professional development in forensic social work practice.
Main duties of the job
Rowan View Social Work Department provides a service to patients, their families and carers and routinely works in collaboration with them, MDT colleagues and external stakeholders from the point of pre‑admission to discharge. The service strives to deliver the Trust’s vision of Perfect and Trauma informed care to promote recovery and support service users to move on and manage risk.
Social care activities range from Mental Health Review Tribunal work, Safeguarding Strategy & Section 42 enquiries, Discharge Coordination, Victim Communication & Liaison, MAPPA, Appropriate Adult (PACE), Care Reviews & Discharge Planning, CPA (Care Programme Approach), CTR (Care & Treatment Reviews) and Social History reports.
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be an active member of a multi‑disciplinary team and will bring the social care perspective to service planning meetings and individualised care planning. The role involves providing case management to a defined caseload within the CPA framework and working collaboratively with multidisciplinary colleagues to assess needs and risks within a forensic patient population. You will provide a professional social work service to patients, their families and carers and routinely liaise with external stakeholders from the point of admission to discharge.
The successful candidate will have the ability to deliver an efficient and high quality social care service, have well developed assessment and analytical skills alongside effective interpersonal, communication and organisational skills.
You must have good knowledge of the key relevant Health & Social Care and Criminal Justice legislation to work in a forensic setting as well as a good knowledge around safeguarding frameworks. You should have well developed report writing skills as routinely you will be required to complete mental health legislation reports for the Ministry of Justice along with Manager’s Hearings and Tribunals alongside assessment reports for admission and discharge.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Degree in Social Work or DipSW or CQSW.
* Current Social Work England registration.
* Post‑qualifying training (formally or work based) in relevant areas of social work and/or mental health, learning disability or forensics.
* Evidence of significant continuing professional and personal development.
* Approved Mental Health Professional Qualification
* Qualifications relating to the Mental Capacity Act, e.g., Best Interest Assessor
* Masters Degree (MSW) or Postgraduate (PGDipSW)
Knowledge / Experience
* Suitable post qualifying experience as a Social Worker
* Good working knowledge of legislative guidance and policy e.g., Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act, Care Act, Human Rights Act and criminal justice frameworks e.g., MAPPA, Victim Liaison, MARAC and Carers’ Rights.
* Knowledge and application of professional standards, codes of conduct and Social Work England standards of proficiency and Professional Capabilities Framework (PCF).
* Good working understanding of Information Governance, Data Protection and confidentiality.
* Ability to assess and manage complex cases in a multidisciplinary team setting.
* Skilled at assessing and implementing risk management frameworks
* Skilled at assessing and promoting the involvement of people in developing their own care/ support plans using a strengths and asset‑based approach.
* Experience of working with service users with mental disorders and/or learning disabilities.
* Experience of multidisciplinary team working and promoting social work/social care.
* Experience of presenting reports in formal setting, e.g., Courts, Mental Health Tribunals, Safeguarding Strategy.
* Experience in working with families, Experience of child and adult safeguarding
* Experience of working with forensic service users.
* Experience of supervising others.
Values
* Accountability
* Support
* High professional standards
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Transparency and honesty
* Change oriented
Skills
* To be able to practice safely and effectively within scope of practice.
* To be able to practice within the legal and ethical boundaries of Social Work profession.
* Understand the key concepts of the knowledge base relevant to Social Work profession
* Be able to draw on appropriate knowledge and skills to inform practice.
* Develop written documents including report writing relevant for practice.
* An ability to manage time, prioritise work and meet deadlines.
* To be able to practice as an autonomous professional.
* To be able to communicate effectively.
* To be able to build compassionate and effective relationships
* To be able to maintain records appropriate.
* Interpersonal skills and resilience to manage complex clinical case work.
* Written and verbal communication skills to engage with patients, carers and professionals.
* Well‑developed analytic and judgement skills, dealing with complex situations where required to lead on professional social work opinions
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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust’s guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
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Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.
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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.
Name Jennifer Gilbert Job title Forensic Social Care Operational Manager Email address Jennifer.Gilbert@merseycare.nhs.uk Telephone number 07920207503 Additional information. For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Jenny Gilbert on 07920207503 or alternatively Lead for Social Work & Safeguarding Anna Barnes on 0151 4595640.
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