Job summary
- Main area
- Social Work
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Secondment: 12 months (9am until 5pm Monday to Friday)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 267-OA7341455
- Employer
- Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Elms Centre
- Town
- Banbury
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Social Care Practitioner
Band 7
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.
We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion so, if you’re excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, then please get in touch and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.
We are also committed to increasing diversity in the workforce, that is why we actively encourage applications from those groups of people who are currently under-represented, which include amongst others: people with disabilities; men from all socio-economic backgrounds; people from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and people from the LGBTQIA+ community.
Good luck and we hope to hear from you.
Job overview
Are you an experienced, qualified Social Worker seeking the next step?
We are currently seeking a Senior Social Care Practitioner. This is an excellent opportunity to progress your social work career, staying in frontline practice whilst developing management and leadership experience, and leading change within your organisation. You will undertake the role of a senior social worker and be responsible for ensuring statutory social care assessments and interventions are of a high quality. Providing practice learning opportunities of outstanding quality and to ensure social work trainees, newly qualified and qualified social work colleagues develop high quality social work practice.
You will ensure that the social perspective of mental health is front and centre of team's practice and you will promote this model within the integrated team .
Main duties of the job
The focus of this post is to work directly within the North and West AMHT to support, challenge and critically review the care processes which are connected to the funded Social Care packages. The post holder will be a champion for funded social care and all the associated process and practice based issues.
You will be expected to:
- Develop and oversee a programme of robust assessment and review for service users under the care of adult mental health services in receipt of social care services ensuring assessed needs are met in the most appropriate way.
- Maintain an overview of the use of all social care supported accommodation within Oxfordshire
- Maintain an overview of community support provision within Oxfordshire both within specialist mental health provision and within the wider community.
- Be responsible for ensuring the highest standards of social work practice and the efficient and effective use of resources
- Ensure that the needs of service users are met in accordance with the appropriate legal frameworks, providing advice and assistance to other teams where appropriate.
- Provide professional social work supervision to the social work team including ensuring professional development of colleagues. To ensure effective and robust line management.
Working for our organisation
Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application please read the “candidate guide to making an application” and ensure your supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses any essential criteria.
As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and Northeast Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible. Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”
Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”
We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Competitive pension scheme
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists apply)
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.
The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Qualified social worker with more than two years experience
- Evidence of providing professional supervision
- Understanding of the opportunities and challenges of working in a MDT
Desirable criteria
- AMHP or BIA assessor
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Excellent knowledge of the Care Act, Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act and associated statutory guidance
- Understanding of the rights of people who use our services and how to ensure those rights are protected
- Excellent knowledge of safeguarding legislation pertaining to adults and children
- Understanding of models of mental health with a focus on the social perspective and ability to articulate this to the MDT and other agencies
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of Court of Protection processes and procedures
- Knowledge of No Recourse to Public Funds
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to demonstrate and confidently assert the importance of person centred rights based practice
- Ability to assert the social perspective of mental health to the AMHT and wider systems
- To use social work skills to influence and negotiate better outcomes for people using mental health services
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Shabnam Akhter
- Job title
- Social work manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07884 996920
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