Overview
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Role
B5 Social Worker with Recruitment Incentive
The closing date is 07 November 2025
We are looking for a band five social worker to join our adult community mental health service in Bishops 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 prioritizes individual choice and control. Supporting and assessing carers is also a crucial part of your role.
Main duties of the job
Join Our Community Team!
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 Care Programme Approach, Care Management, and Safeguarding is essential. We support newly qualified Social Workers through the ASYE program.
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
All Social Workers must be registered with Social Work England.
* To undertake comprehensive assessments and reviews, ensuring people meet Fair Access to Care Services (FACS) eligibility criteria, and are assessed using the self directed support Needs Outcome Assessment (NOA), process.
* To undertake such reviews as part of an integrated assessment of peoples health and social care needs.
* To offer direct support and advice to service users and their carers, through information and advice and ensure that those who do not meet FACS eligibility are appropriately signposted and supported.
* To ensure appropriate health and social care services are commissioned with and on behalf of service users, including the duty to offer direct payments, and that processes are in place for service users to be charged by the local authority for all social care services.
* To ensure that commissioned services allow choice to service users and carers, and focus on people living in the community with appropriate support and access to universal services.
* To undertake regular risk assessments and ensure that vulnerable people are kept safe.
* To undertake assessments of carers needs, including identifying contingency plans, and provision of support if appropriate.
* To liaise and negotiate with other agencies e.g. Adult Care Services, Children Schools and Families, Benefit Agency, Housing authorities and providers etc., for joint planning with, or on behalf of, service users.
Please see attached Job Description & Person Specification before applying for this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* An appropriate professional social work qualification (e.g. DipSW)
* Registration with General Social Care Council.
* Training in principles and application of outcomes focussed assessments and personalisation
Experience and Knowledge
* Knowledge of legislation, theory and policy in relation to relevant care group
* Experience of undertaking assessments, focussed as 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
* Ability to analyse service user and carer information.
* Experience of undertaking small scale audits and surveys.
Communication and People Skill
* Excellent ability to communicate with a wide range of stakeholders including service users and carers, other professional colleagues, members of other organisations and local communities, verbally and in writing
* Ability to manage highly sensitive information
* Experience of using electronic recording systems and ability to produce accurate, appropriate and timely reports.
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
Address
Oxford House, London Road, Bishops Stortford, CM23 3LA
£31,049 to £37,796 a year, pro rata (Inclusive of 5% HCAS)
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Reference number
367-ACMS-9464-A
Job locations
Oxford House, London Road, Bishops Stortford, CM23 3LA
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