Consultant Clinical Social Worker

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 30 January 2026

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Consultant Clinical Social Worker to join HPFT's Community CYPMHS Team and to provide 12‑month maternity cover. HPFT is at the forefront of providing integrated health and social care. The Trust is one of only a handful of mental health trusts in the country to receive a CQC rating of ‘OUTSTANDING’.

CYPMHS Community teams are welcoming, supportive multi‑disciplinary teams committed to providing innovative and high quality care. This county‑wide service has bases across Herts, providing services to children and young people experiencing severe and enduring mental health issues. You will work alongside other clinical social workers, nurses, systemic family therapists, clinical psychologists, child psychotherapists, psychiatrists and operational staff, as well as partner agencies across Social Care and Education.

HCPC registration is required.

As a service we offer various evidence‑based therapeutic intervention models and work alongside our other CYPMHS services including our Eating Disorders Team, Crisis Assessment and Treatment Team, DBT team, Forensic Adolescent Practitioner service, Adolescent inpatient unit, Home Treatment Team and our CYPMHS Targeted team.

You will be expected to offer mental health assessments and interventions to young people, their families and carers, able to handle high levels of complexity and risk. You will work closely with social care, schools and other partners, support other clinicians in your team, and may join senior leadership meetings to provide expertise for complex case decision‑making.

You will also provide supervision to clinicians in the team, support colleagues and teams in shaping and developing services, and ensure adherence to protocols, policies and KPIs.

As a consultant social worker you will manage a caseload, facilitate safeguarding consultations and discussion spaces, and support team functioning.

The successful candidate will have access to training opportunities aligned with both service needs and personal interests.

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust is an outstanding organisation, one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall CQC ‘Outstanding’ rating. We aim to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 4,500 staff provides health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Norfolk, delivering services in the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, and secure learning disabilities services.

Our values are:
Welcoming, Kind, Positive, Respectful, Professional.

Would you like to be part of the HPFT family, work with us to help our service users live the fullest lives possible, and be supported in your career? Join us!

The post-holder will provide a variety of clinical/professional supervision to trainees on placement and multi‑disciplinary colleagues for training and continuing professional development.

The post holder will have opportunities for personal and professional development and service development.

HPFT CAMHS is leading the transformation of care for young people and their families, with a CAMHS Home Treatment Team, DBT Service, a dedicated Section 136 Suite, and a Tier 4 Inpatient Unit – Forest House Adolescent Unit – which has reduced inpatient admissions and improved community care for young people in crisis.

For more information, please contact us to arrange a visit.

• RMN/RN (MH) / Social Work Qualification
• BSc in Mental Health Practice or equivalent, or substantial post‑qualifying experience in Liaison Psychiatry
• Mentoring and assessing students qualification
• 5+ years post‑qualification experience
• Cert or Dip in…