We are recruiting to a key role within our Social Care Team as we prepare for the service to transfer to Lincolnshire County Council (LCC) in July 2026. This is an exciting time to join a dedicated, values driven team who are committed to delivering high quality social care support to our service users, carers and partners.
The service is designed to provide an integrated model of social care that promotes a positive experience for service users and carers across the whole service. LPFT have a Section 75 agreement under the National Health Service Act (2006) where Lincolnshire County Council have devolved their assessment and care management duties to LPFT.
Social work in the Trust is delivered through a Community Social Care Resource where social care staff are aligned to the integrated community teams but are managed and supervised from within the social care resource.
Three distinct Social Work teams exist covering the East, West and South of the county respectively. Each team has a Team Manager and managers are expected to work closely in order to provide a consistent service across the county.
The post is Full Time 37.5 hours per week
Until the transfer date, you will be employed by Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LPFT) and supported throughout the transition process. Post transfer, you will become part of LCC’s team, with access to its wide-ranging opportunities to grow your career in local authority social care.
As a social worker you will develop your core skills towards becoming a more competent practitioner within a specialist service through the guidance of the National and Local competency frameworks
To participate in and provide management, leadership and supervision for more junior staff
To contribute positively to multi-disciplinary and multi-agency teamwork
Ensure evidence-based practice and research awareness is used as the foundation for the assessment, planning implementation and evaluation of care.
To engage with service users and their families/carers, developing therapeutic relationships, and providing evidence-based, psychosocial interventions in a variety of settings.
Promote service user and carer involvement; ensuring choices are embedded into the philosophy of care.
Empower people to identify and address specific needs in relation to their health and well being
Ensure social work perspectives and values are supported and represented within the multidisciplinary approach.
Keep up to date with current practices and issues in Mental Health and Social Work.
Assess complex health and well being needs, develop, monitor and review care and support plans to meet specific needs.
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!
We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life. Visit beinlincolnshire.com to find out more.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Clare Ashton Job title: Social Work Team Manager S.75 Social Care South Email address: Clare.ashton1@nhs.net Telephone number: 01775 652300
Alternative contact number 07917215090
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