Social Workers

Responsibilities

• Promote and lead the social care agenda, acting in accordance with the principles of personalisation, working to promote wellbeing, and enabling individuals’ rights to choice and control.
• Carry out complex assessments of need, plan and deliver services, and review outcomes with the individual, their personal support networks and support providers.
• Ensure practice within the team is responsive, inclusive and community based with a clear focus on outcomes and bring your professional expertise to your work with complex cases.
• Supervise the social care staff within the team and support the wider team with social care.
• Manage the provision of assessments under the Care Act 2014 and the reviews of packages of care.
• Work collaboratively with community partners to ensure individuals and families are supported and their needs are met.
• Act as a champion and leader of social care within the locality/quadrant.
• Be a warranted AMHP (desirable).
• Be professionally registered.

• Leadership and management training opportunities.
• 5% on top of basic salary high cost allowance supplement (subject to a minimum and a maximum payment pro rata).
• 27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service) plus bank holidays (pro rata where applicable).
• One of the UK's best pension schemes.
• Comprehensive health and wellbeing services.
• Special leave for family and personal reasons.
• NHS Car Lease Scheme.
• Employee Assistance Programme.

Senior Social Workers are a key part of the senior management team and the focus of the role is to promote, lead, and act in accordance with the principles of personalisation, ensuring the team are working to promote wellbeing and enabling individuals’ rights to choice and control. In doing so they will carry out complex assessments of need, plan and deliver services, and review outcomes with the individual, their personal support networks and support providers.

Senior Social Workers will lead the Team's social care agenda and will supervise the social care staff within the Team. As a Senior Social Worker you will act as a champion and leader of social care within a locality/quadrant to ensure a focus on outcome-based interventions. You will be expected to give robust, consistent expert social care practice advice in partnership with other specialist senior social care colleagues.

You will reinforce the need to deliver high quality, cost effective social care services to service users and their carers focused on the principles of choice, control and independence, as well as ensuring their safety. You will have a small caseload of the most complex cases and you will manage the provision of assessments and reviews of social care intervention.

Partnership working is a key component of this post both within and outside the Trust and you will need to be innovative in ensuring that there is a range of appropriate services locally to support individual recovery journeys. You will work with community partners to address complex social issues and will be encouraged to think innovatively about how to address local concerns with our community partners.

You will be expected to work in partnership with service users and carers so that they can be empowered, and services can be improved as a result of feedback of their experiences.

• You must hold a full valid driving licence and have access to a car to use regularly for business purposes unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010.

• An appropriate professional social work qualification.
• Registration with the General Social Care Council.
• Education to degree level.
• Master's 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, strong post‑qualification experience with demonstrable evidence of excellent practice at a high level.
• Extensive knowledge of legislation, statutory guidance, theory and policy in relation to relevant adult and…