Overview
Join Our Community Team! You may be a newly Qualified Social Worker seeking your first position in mental health or a Social Worker with some experience who is looking to enhance their knowledge and skill in community mental health work. We have exciting opportunities for Social Workers to join us in delivering high quality community mental health care in Ware, Hertford and surrounding villages. We are seeking enthusiastic, compassionate Social Workers who hold a strong belief in recovery for people with severe and enduring mental health problems. Our Community Mental Health Social Workers hold a caseload and undertake the role of care coordinator for those with varied complex mental health and social care needs. You will also provide assessment and specific interventions to meet the needs of service users, their carers and families. It is expected that you will be a flexible practitioner who enjoys new challenges in meeting the developing needs of the service and our service users. Applicants should be able to demonstrate the ability to work well within a team, priorities and manage own workload and display initiative whilst maintaining a positive, professional and calm approach. An interest and understanding of the issues people with mental health needs may experience is essential for this post as is a good understanding of Care Programme Approach, Care Management and Safeguarding. As newly qualified Social Worker we will support you through completing the ASYE programme.
Responsibilities
* Work as a member of the multi-disciplinary team providing a high quality social care service to adults of all ages experiencing or recovering from personality, substance abuse and mental health difficulties and their carers.
* Provide assessment, care planning and care coordination, including care programme approach, within a framework of recovery which embraces each individual’s right to choice and control.
* Ensure that carers are effectively assessed and supported.
* Work with the locality of East & South East Hertfordshire (Cheshunt) and deliver services to the locality; service operates Monday – Friday, 9am – 5pm.
Qualifications and Skills
* Interest and understanding of the issues people with mental health needs may experience.
* Good understanding of Care Programme Approach, Care Management and Safeguarding.
* Able to work well within a team, prioritise and manage own workload, and display initiative.
* Flexible practitioner who enjoys new challenges.
* For newly qualified Social Workers, support through completing the ASYE programme.
About HPFT
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. 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.
Details
Location: Cheshunt and surrounding area; East & South East Hertfordshire. Hours: Monday – Friday, 9am – 5pm.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Kate Drew, Job title: Service Line Lead, Email: kate.drew4@nhs.net, Telephone: 07977 607 426.
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