Overview
We are looking for 2 full time social workers to join our Local Mental Health Teams (LMHTs). One will be based at Gedling LMHT and the other at Broxtowe and Hucknall LMHT.
There is an exciting opportunity to join the growing social work workforce within Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust. Social workers play a crucial part in improving mental health outcomes for individuals, through understanding the social detriments of mental health and using a human rights approach. This requires advanced relationship-based skills focused on personalisation and strength-based working, to support people to make positive, self-directed change.
Responsibilities
* Work as a social worker in a multi-disciplinary community mental health team.
* Support a caseload of individuals experiencing social issues impacting their mental health by applying social work and psychoeducation interventions; represent the social work perspective within the team.
* Participate in social work training and supervision; develop additional intervention skills for working in a community mental health team.
* Demonstrate professional judgement, decision making and actions within a framework of professional accountability; promote and lead on the social perspective and trauma-informed social model of mental health within the multidisciplinary team.
* Value and take account of the expertise of service users, carers, and other professionals.
* Provide social work expertise to improve mental health outcomes by understanding the social determinants of mental health; undertake social work input/interventions as needed and coordinate care for people experiencing social stressors.
* Maintain an individual caseload and complete team responsibilities; engage with family, carers, and support networks where appropriate.
* Assess holistically, considering health and social needs to ensure personalised support planning; assess and manage risk to balance safeguarding with choice and positive risk-taking under relevant legislation.
* Focus on strength/asset-based working to enable positive, self-directed change and community engagement.
* Recognise safeguarding responsibilities, including risk indicators of abuse/neglect; provide expertise to the team and act as safeguarding link role; share disclosures appropriately and manage sensitive information.
* Ensure evidence-based social work interventions informed by theories and values; apply a human rights approach and knowledge of statutory rights.
* Promote family and carers work within the multidisciplinary team and link with the Family Intervention Team; train and deliver relevant interventions to enable this work.
* Maintain expertise regarding legislation including the Care Act, Mental Capacity Act, Equality Act, Human Rights Act, Transforming Care, Mental Health Act and other relevant legislation.
* Work in partnership with external agencies to support adults and carers to access statutory, independent, and non-statutory services.
* Liaise with Social Care to support access to statutory social support and ensure appropriate levels of support; support colleagues to engage with Social Care processes.
* Model anti-discriminatory and anti-racist practice; challenge system impacts; attend team meetings as required.
* Promote a learning culture and share best practice within multidisciplinary teams; provide supervision to colleagues as required and appropriate.
* May occasionally deliver medications in line with procedures after consultation with the prescriber.
* Undertake other duties reasonably required, including working as part of the duty system.
* A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required; reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010.
Additional Information
#TeamNottsHC comprises over 11,000 colleagues who #MakeADifference daily. We deliver services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire from over 200 sites. We are one of the largest mental health and community Trusts in the East Midlands.
We offer employee-led staff networks (EDI, Green Champions, Freedom to Speak Up, Health and Wellbeing Champions, Menopause Champions) and invest in health and wellbeing through in-house occupational health and counselling services.
The Trust is committed to reducing carbon emissions with an Energy and Environmental team supporting environmental compliance and net-zero goals.
Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment: DBS standard £26.40 or enhanced £54.40, deducted over the first 2 months. You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service; annual fee £16 per year.
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