Overview
Are you a Social Worker with some experience who is looking to enhance your knowledge and skill in mental health working? Our friendly team is based in Borehamwood and provides services to the locality of SW Herts. The service operates Monday–Friday, 9am–5pm. As a Social Worker, you will work as a member of the multi‑disciplinary team, providing high quality social care services to adults of all ages experiencing mental ill‑health.
Responsibilities
* Provide assessment, care planning and coordination of care from a social perspective to adults accessing the service.
* Deliver recovery‑focused care and support to service users and their carers, focusing on choice, control, independence and safety.
* Actively address adversity and support adults at risk of social exclusion, assisting them to cope with a range of adverse circumstances.
* Champion equality and diversity, challenge discrimination in all its forms.
* Maintain a caseload of adults with a wide range of mental health and social care needs, ensuring ongoing reflection and development of practice.
* Participate in continuous professional development in line with the standards set out by Social Work England.
* Engage in the Assessed and Supported Year in Employment (ASYE) programme for entry‑level social workers.
* Conduct assessments and reviews for people presenting with high risk or significant interpersonal, social, legal or environmental complexities, ensuring eligibility against The Care Act 2014.
* Offer direct support to service users and carers, providing information and advice, and signposting where social care eligibility is not met.
* Coordinate commissioning of health and social care services for service users, including direct payments and charging where applicable.
* Ensure commissioned services provide choice to users and carers and support community living.
* Carry out regular risk assessments and keep vulnerable people safe.
* Comply with child and adult safeguarding practice and take a role in safeguarding investigations, supporting the implementation of protection plans.
* Apply best practice in carer assessments, identify contingency plans and provide support.
* Involve service users and carers to learn from their experiences and improve service delivery.
Qualifications
* Appropriate professional social work qualification (e.g. DipSW).
* Degree level education.
* Registration with Social Work England.
* Training in principles and application of outcome‑focused assessments and person‑centred practice.
* Knowledge of relevant legislation, theory and policy in relation to the care group.
* Experience of undertaking assessments focused on 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.
Skills and Aptitudes (Essential Criteria)
* Ability to analyse service user and carer information.
* Experience of undertaking small‑scale audits and surveys.
* Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with a wide range of stakeholders.
* Ability to manage highly sensitive information.
* Experience of using electronic recording systems and producing accurate, appropriate and timely reports.
* Own transportation for travel between locations.
* Experience working in an integrated health and social care environment.
* Appropriate UK professional registration.
About the Employer
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is one of five mental health trusts rated 'Outstanding' by the Care Quality Commission. HPFT has over 4,000 staff providing health and social care for people with mental ill‑health, physical ill‑health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk. Services are delivered within the community and several inpatient settings. The Trust was recognised as Mental Health Trust of the Year by the Health Service Journal in 2021 and consistently appears highly rated by staff and service users.
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