Senior Social Worker
The closing date is 04 February 2026.
Our welcoming and supportive Adult Community Mental Health Service in Ware has the opportunity to recruit into a Senior Social Worker post within the multidisciplinary team. You will be able to demonstrate skills to inspire, lead and manage staff in the delivery of the Care Act expectations for social care and safeguarding.
This a fantastic development opportunity to join an experienced group of clinicians and practitioners and develop your career with our services.
All Senior Social Workers must be registered with Social Work England.
Previous applicants need not apply.
Overview
The Senior Social Worker will promote, lead and apply the principles of personalisation, wellbeing, and rights to choice and control within a multi disciplinary mental health team.
Main duties
* Promote, lead and act in accordance with the principles of personalisation, working to promote wellbeing, and enabling individual's rights to choice and control, in a multi disciplinary mental health team.
* Provide robust, consistent, and expert social care practice advice in partnership with other specialist senior social care colleagues.
* Support newly qualified social workers through the ASYE, acting as an ASYE assessor and engaging in the ASYE moderation process.
* Undertake duties as an Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) or be willing to undertake AMHP training.
What we offer
* Support you to develop your skills to provide robust, consistent expert social care practice advice in partnership with other specialist senior social care colleagues including the professional leads for social care in the Trust.
* Leading company discounts and childcare vouchers
* Salary sacrifice schemes enabling staff to drive a new car or bike - saving on tax and insurance included
* Wellbeing activities - from mindfulness to yoga, pilates and our signature craft club; join our monthly programme of regular and special events to support your wellbeing
About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are 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.
Job responsibilities
* Be a champion of social care with a comprehensive understanding of legislation and statutory guidance.
* Maintain regular links and attend meetings with the corporate Social Work and Safeguarding Team, and keep up to date with accurate, consistent, and robust social care, legal and practice advice, and support to locality staff.
* Undertake the most complex assessments and reviews for people who may present with a high risk, or those with significant interpersonal, social, legal and/or environmental complexities, ensuring people are assessed appropriately against social care eligibility criteria as defined by The Care Act 2014.
* Offer direct support to service users and their carers, and to colleagues, through information and advice, to ensure that those who do not meet social care eligibility are appropriately signposted and supported.
Person Specification
Experience
* An appropriate professional social work qualification
* Registration with General Social Work England
* Masters Degree or equivalent training
* Approved Mental Health Professional training and qualification (or prepared to undertake training within a year of appointment)
* Relevant post-qualifying training for social workers
* Other post-qualifying training e.g. CBT, family therapy
* Best Interests Assessment training
Experience (continued)
* Minimum 5 years post-qualification experience with demonstrable evidence of excellent practice at advanced level
* Extensive knowledge of legislation, statutory guidance, theory, and policy in relation to adult and children's social care
* Experience of undertaking assessment focused on personalisation, choice and control, and care planning
* Understanding of and experience of use of personal budgets and direct payments
* Experience of supervising and mentoring others
* Evidence of multidisciplinary and collaborative working
* Evidence of partnership working with service users and carers, demonstrating dignity and respect, particularly in very challenging situations
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Salary and conditions
£50,008 to £56,908 per year, pro rata (5% HCAS Included)
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
367-ACMS-10006
Job locations
Ware, Hertfordshire
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