Are you seeking a change within your Social Work journey? Or are you a newly qualified Social Worker looking to take a step up into a senior role?
The Buckinghamshire Social Care Team is looking for an experienced Social Worker to join our social work team across Buckinghamshire. Within Oxford Health we deliver mental health social care support within a partnership agreement with Buckinghamshire Council.
Role Overview
Following your initial 12-month placement in the Early Resolution & Safeguarding (ER&S) team, youll transition into one of our six specialist teams, which may include:
* Working age adults social care team
* Older Adults social care team
* Safeguarding
* Transitions
This is an excellent chance to gain experience in a variety of different spaces within social work and grow your career.
For your first 12 months with us, you will have the opportunity to work across Buckinghamshire. Our main office is at The Whiteleaf Centre, Aylesbury with the opportunity to work from Saffron House, High Wycombe too.
Responsibilities
Your duties will include:
* Work with adults, and their families, who may be placed in a range of community and placement settings, to form an understanding of their needs and wishes and develop strength-based plans.
* Understand and apply the relevant statutory frameworks to promote independence and autonomy while balancing risks and the needs of others including children and vulnerable adults.
* Use relationship based Social Work skills to understand the needs of this adult service user group and work collaboratively to create care and support plans that reflect person-centred outcomes.
* Provide a high quality and effective professional approach, taking responsibility for working and managing a caseload within a framework of appropriate supervision, dependent upon the complexities of these cases and the social workers experience.
* Collate holistic information to ensure appropriate, person-centred and supportive safeguarding decisions are made.
* Demonstrate and model good practice that reflects a commitment to relationship and strengths-based practice, working collaboratively with adults and their families.
* Triage safeguarding referrals and carry a small caseload of social care assessments and S42 enquiries.
Your role will include working within a small, fast paced, supportive team.
We have a robust induction whereupon you will attend corporate induction days, you will be given time to undertake initial relevant training and have shadowing opportunities to help you settle into your role from the first day on the job.
Qualifications & Requirements
* Applicants must have a full valid driving licence and have access to a vehicle for work.
* Experience as a Social Worker (specific degree or CSW qualifications preferable but not explicitly stated).
* Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study.
* Applicants should be able to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
Benefits & Flexible Working
We are advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
* Excellent opportunities for career progression
* Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
* 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
* NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
* Competitive pension scheme
* Lease car scheme
* Cycle to work scheme
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Mental Health First Aiders
* Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists apply)
* Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Equal Opportunities
We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values - safe, caring and excellent. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults.
We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion; we encourage applications from under-represented groups including persons with disabilities, men from all socio-economic backgrounds, people from diverse ethnic backgrounds and LGBTQIA+ community.
About Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.
We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset. We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity and inclusion; if you are excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, please get in touch and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.
Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will say that you receive: "Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team".
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