Job summary
Are you a newly Qualified Social Worker seeking your first position in mental health?
Are you a Social Worker with some experience who is looking to enhance your knowledge and skill in mental health work?
If yes, we would love to hear from you. We are seeking to recruit an ASYE Social Worker Band 5 to join the Adult Community Mental Health Service (ACMHS) in Southwest Hertfordshire.
We welcome diversity in our workforce and encourage applicants from people of all ages and backgrounds, such as those with lived experience of mental health difficulties.
Our friendly team is based in Borehamwood and provides services to the locality of SW Herts. The service operates Monday - Friday, 9am - 5pm.
For an informal chat, please contact Emily Mann on 0208 731 3000.
Please apply promptly as the vacancy may close early if sufficient candidates.
Details
Date posted: 26 March 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 5
Salary: £32,602 to £39,686 a year per annum, pro rata (5% HCAS Included)
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 367-ACMS-10022-A
Job locations: Civic Centre, Borehamwood, Elstree Way, WD6 1WA
Responsibilities
* Champion social care with an understanding of legislation and statutory guidance.
* Undertake assessments and reviews for people who may present with a high risk, or those with significant interpersonal, social, legal and/or environmental complexities, ensuring people are assessed appropriately against social care eligibility criteria as defined by The Care Act 2014.
* Offer direct support to service users and their carers, and to colleagues, through information and advice, to ensure that those who do not meet social care eligibility are appropriately signposted and supported.
* Ensure that appropriate health and social care services are commissioned with and on behalf of service users, including the duty to offer direct payments, and that processes are in place for service users to be charged by the local authority for the social care services they receive, if applicable.
* Ensure that commissioned services allow choice to service users and carers and focus on people living in the community with appropriate support and access to universal services.
* Undertake regular risk assessments and ensure that vulnerable people are kept safe.
* Comply with both child and adult safeguarding practice in line with current policy, and take a role in adult safeguarding investigations, which may involve supporting the implementation of protection plans.
* Commit to best practice when undertaking carer assessments, including identifying contingency plans and provision of support.
* Ensure the involvement of service users and their carers so that the Trust can learn from their experiences to make improvements to service delivery.
Person Specification – Qualifications
* An appropriate professional social work qualification (e.g. DipSW)
* Education to degree level
* Registration with Social Work England
* Training in principles and application of outcomes focussed assessments and personalisation
Person Specification – Experience and Knowledge
* Knowledge of legislation, theory and policy in relation to relevant care group
* Experience of undertaking assessments, focussed as personalisation, choice and control, and care planning
* Knowledge and understanding of personal budgets and direct payments
* Experience of multidisciplinary working and ability to work collaboratively
* Experience of partnership working with service users and carers, demonstrating dignity and respect
Person Specification – Skills and Aptitudes
* Ability to analyse service user and carer information.
* Experience of undertaking small scale audits and surveys.
Person Specification – Communication and People Skills
* 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.
* Ability to manage highly sensitive information.
* Experience of using electronic recording systems and ability to produce accurate, appropriate and timely reports.
Person Specification – Other
* Form of own transportation is needed to travel between locations.
Person Specification – General Desirable
* Experience of working in an integrated health and social care environment.
About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust is one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission.
Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex 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.
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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here: Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
Employer details
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Civic Centre, Borehamwood, Elstree Way, WD6 1WA
Employer website: https://www.hpft.nhs.uk/careers/
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