Job overview

All Social Workers must be registered with Social Work England.

As a Social Worker, you will work as a member of the multi-disciplinary team, providing high quality social care services to adults of all ages experiencing mental ill-health. The core functions of the role will be to provide assessment, care planning and coordination of care from a social perspective to adults accessing the service. You will delivery recovery-focused care and support to service users and their carers that is focused on the principles of choice, control, and independence, as well as ensuring safety. You will act as a champion of social care and safeguarding in your locality.

You will hold a caseload which may comprise of adults experiencing a wide range of mental health and social care needs. You will ensure that you maintain constant reflection and development of your practice and will ensure your continuing professional development in line with the standards set out by the professional regulator, Social Work England

You will be Based on Beech ward .  Beech Ward is a 15-bed low-secure unit for men with mental illnesses and a history of offending behaviour who are at significant risk of causing harm to others. It offers specialist psychological, psychiatric and behavioural therapies and complex specialist rehabilitation to help patients prepare for their return to life in society.

Main duties of the job

• Be a champion of social care, including safeguarding, with an understanding of the relevant legislation and statutory guidance.

• Be an effective member of the multi-disciplinary team, providing high quality social care services to service-users and carers.

• Provide assessment, care planning and coordination of care from a social care perspective.

• Deliver recovery-focused care and support to service-users and their carers that is focused on the principles of choice, control, and independence, as well as ensuring safety.

• Comply with both child and adult safeguarding practice in line with current policy, including following up safeguarding referrals and child visit requests.

• Liaise with families and carers, and support nursing staff in arranging visits and developing good relationships with families and carers.

• Ensure the involvement of service-users and their carers so that the Trust can learn from their experiences to make service improvements.

• Liaise and negotiate with other agencies including the Ministry of Justice, Police, Children’s Services, Carers’ Networks, and other key stakeholders.

• Ensure appropriate use of the Mental Capacity Act, and support colleagues to apply this legislation.

• Ensure records of all work undertaken are accurate and up to date.

• Actively champion equality and diversity and challenge discrimination in all its forms

Working for our organisation

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 4000 members of staff provide 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 these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Our Trust values are:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!

Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?