Social Worker, Mental Health

Social Worker

The closing date is 24 March 2026

We are looking for a full time social worker to come and join our Gedling Local Mental Health Team (LMHTs).

There is an exciting opportunity to join the growing social work workforce within Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust. Social workers play a crucial part in improving mental health outcomes for individuals, through understanding the social detriments of mental health and using a human rights approach. This requires advanced relationship-based skills focussed on personalisation and strength-based working, to support people to make positive, self-directed change.

The successful candidates will work as a social worker in a multi-disciplinary community mental health team. This involves supporting a caseload of individuals' who are experiencing social issues which are impacting their mental health by applying social work and psychoeducation interventions and representing the social work and social perspective in the team. Social work training and supervision is provided as well as opportunities to develop additional intervention skills required for working in a community mental health team.

The post holder will demonstrate the principles of social work through professional judgement, decision making and actions within a framework of professional accountability. They will promote and lead on the social perspective and trauma-informed social model of mental health and wellbeing within the multidisciplinary team. They post holder will value and take account of the expertise of service users, carers and other professionals.

The post holder will work within a multi-disciplinary team providing social work expertise to improve mental health outcomes for individuals through understanding the social determinants of mental health. This includes completing pieces of work where a patient requires social work input/ social work interventions; and providing care coordination for people experiencing social stressors that are impacting their mental health or social stressors are the predominant issue that requires support.

The post holder will also complete team responsibilities as required.

#TeamNotts

HC comprises over 11,000 dedicated colleagues who #MakeADifference every day. We deliver intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic, and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire. Our care is provided from over 200 sites, spanning community locations, acute settings, and secure environments, including prisons.

We are one of the largest mental health and community Trusts in the East Midlands and one of Nottinghamshire's biggest employers. We also host national and regional services, such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.

We offer a variety of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) groups, the Green Champions network, the Freedom to Speak Up network, the Health and Wellbeing Champions network, and the Menopause Champions network. These networks play a vital role in supporting our diverse workforce and promoting a culture of inclusivity.

The health and wellbeing of our colleagues is a top priority. We invest significantly in this through our in-house occupational health and staff counselling services, supported by a dedicated Health and Wellbeing team.

The Trust is committed to reducing its carbon emissions, with a specialised Energy and Environmental team working to ensure compliance with environmental legislation, enhance our environmental performance, and achieve our net-zero commitment

The post holder will maintain an individual caseload and complete team responsibilities.

The post holder will ensure that all individuals are assessed holistically considering the individuals health and social needs to ensure personalised support planning. This will involve engaging with the individuals family, carers, and support network when appropriate.

The post holder will assess and analyse risk/ ongoing risks to ensure personalised risk and safety plans, balancing risk management and safeguarding with choice, self-determination and positive risk-taking underpinned by relevant legislation.

The post holder will focus on strength/ asset-based working, to support people to make positive self-directed change within their lives and engage with their communities.

The post holder will recognise the risk indicators of different forms of abuse and neglect impacting individuals and provide expertise to the multidisciplinary team with regards to adult and childrens safeguarding responsibilities. This includes sharing disclosures appropriate, management of sensitive information and public protection. They will take on the safeguarding link role in the team. The post holder will ensure evidence-based working informed by social work interventions, theories, and values.

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