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.
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 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.
Responsibilities
* Hold a caseload and act as care coordinator for individuals with complex mental health and social care needs.
* Provide assessment and specific interventions to meet the needs of service users, their carers and families.
* Work as a member of a multi‑disciplinary team, delivering high‑quality social care 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 that embraces each individual’s right to choice and control.
* Ensure carers are effectively assessed and supported.
Qualifications
* Fully qualified Social Worker, or newly qualified Social Worker.
* Strong belief in recovery for people with severe and enduring mental health problems.
* Good understanding of Care Programme Approach, Care Management and Safeguarding.
* Ability to work well within a team, prioritise and manage own workload and display initiative while maintaining a positive, professional and calm approach.
* Interest and understanding of the issues people with mental health needs may experience.
* Support for completion of the ASYE programme if newly qualified.
Location and Hours
Our team is based in Cheshunt and provides services to the locality of East & South East Hertfordshire. The service operates Monday – Friday, 9am – 5pm.
Contact
For further details or informal visits contact:
Name: Kate Drew
Job title: Service Line Lead
Email address: kate.drew4@nhs.net
Telephone number: 07977 607 426
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