Experienced In-Patient Social Worker

Job overview

Are you seeking a change within your Social Work journey? Or are you a newly qualified Social Worker looking to take a step up into a senior role?

The Buckinghamshire Social Care Team is looking for an experienced Social Worker to join our social work team as an inpatient Social Worker across Buckinghamshire.  Within Oxford Health we deliver mental health social care support within a partnership agreement with Buckinghamshire Council.

Your role will include working within a small, fast paced, supportive team, assessing inpatients under the Care Act to support timely, safe discharges into the community.

You will work with a small team of experienced social workers based at the Whiteleaf centre also assessing our out of area patients

We have a robust induction whereupon you will attend corporate induction days, you will be given time to undertake initial relevant training and have shadowing opportunities to help you settle into your role from the first day on the job.

Main duties of the job

Your duties will include:

• Work with adults, and their families, who are ready to be discharged from hospital, to form an understanding of their needs and wishes and develop strength-based plans.
• Understand and apply the relevant statutory frameworks to promote independence and autonomy while balancing risks and the needs of others including children and vulnerable adults.
• You will use relationship based Social Work skills to understand the needs of this adult service user group and work collaboratively to create care and support plans that reflect person-centred outcomes.
• To provide a high quality and effective professional approach, taking responsibility for working and managing a caseload within a framework of appropriate supervision, dependent upon the complexities of these cases and the social worker’s experience.
• To collate holistic information to  ensure appropriate,  person-centred and supportive safeguarding decisions are made.
• Demonstrate and model good practice that reflects a commitment to relationship and strengths-based practice, working collaboratively with adults and their families.

Applicants must have a full valid driving license and have access to a vehicle for work. Adjustments can be considered in line with the Equality Act 2010 where required.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Oxford Health are an organisation that cares about employee wellbeing, and we recognise if staff feel valued, supported and appreciated this then enables them to support the most vulnerable people in the community. To achieve that our management and supervision are first class – with regular reviews of workload, and opportunities for two-way feedback and appraisals.

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.

We are aware that some candidates may choose to use AI tools to support their application. We kindly remind applicants that submissions should remain an honest and accurate representation of their experience and must take care to ensure the use of AI tools does not generate an application that does not accurately reflect their knowledge, skills and values.