Band 6 Inpatient Forensic Social Worker - Secure Care

Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced mental health social worker to deliver an inpatient service across secure care

Our Secure hospitals provide a service to the West Midlands region and accept referrals of male service users with severe and enduring mental illness and personality disorder who require rehabilitation in a highly supervised and structured medium-secure setting.  Patients are detained under the Mental Health Act 2025 and have a history of actual or potential harm to other people.

There are two vacancies for social workers with experience in mental health social work (two years post qualifying) and the ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team is essential.

You must be registered with Social Work England and have a relevant Social Work qualification.

Candidates should have the ability to uphold anti-discriminatory social work practice and maintain clear boundaries in clinical and professional relationships.

For an informal discussion please contact Michael King (Forensic Social Work Team Manager) 0121 301 3139

Main duties of the job

• To support the effective risk management of service users in the forensic inpatient care pathway supporting them to transition into the community.
• To prepare Social Circumstances Reports and attend Tribunals and Managers hearings under the Mental Health Act
• To provide expertise in social care to multi-disciplinary teams to support patients discharge planning from medium secure hospitals.
• To work with individual service users to prepare to reach their recovery goals in the context of MoJ community restriction orders following discharge.
• To offer support and interventions to families and carers, working across inpatient services.
• Forensic social workers bring a social perspective incorporating principles of diversity, equality, and human rights.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached job description and person specification.

We highly recommend you submit your application as soon as possible, this post may close earlier than the indicated closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received.