B5 Social Worker with Recruitment Incentive
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We are looking for a band five social worker to join our adult community mental health service in Bishop's Stortford. As a member of our multi-disciplinary team, you will provide high-quality social care to adults facing mental health challenges.
Your main tasks will include assessment, care planning, and coordination, following a recovery framework that prioritises individual choice and control. Supporting and assessing carers is also a crucial part of your role.
Whether you're a newly qualified Social Worker or have some experience, we have exciting opportunities. We seek enthusiastic, compassionate Social Workers who believe in recovery for people with severe mental health issues.
As a Community Mental Health Social Worker, you will manage a caseload, coordinate care, provide assessments, and deliver specific interventions for service users, their carers, and families. Flexibility and a positive, professional approach are essential. You should work well in a team, manage your workload, and show initiative.
An interest in mental health issues, understanding of the Care Programme Approach, Care Management, and Safeguarding is essential. We support newly qualified Social Workers through the ASYE programme.
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.
About Us - Hertfordshire NHS Partnership Trust
Heard. Respected. Included. Together, we help people with mental ill-health, learning disabilities and autism to live life to the fullest. We work throughout Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Norfolk...
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Ian Gasson Job title: Service Manager Email address: ian.gasson@nhs.net Telephone number: 07554437598
Please call our senior social worker Layla for an informal chat about the post 01279 464800.
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