# Senior Social Worker > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-social-worker/73a15bc8-5aad-4f6d-8a21-7d6a338cf9be - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-social-worker/73a15bc8-5aad-4f6d-8a21-7d6a338cf9be.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust - **Town:** Maidstone - **Region:** South East - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Healthcare support worker - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 per annum, pro rata - **Contract type:** Fixed term: 12 months (This will be a 1 year fixed contract from the date of employment.) - **Employment type:** Part time - 30 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-15T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-01T10:13:41.586Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Kent/Staplehurst/Kent_Medway_Mental_Health_NHS_Trust/Social_Work/Social_Work-v7959518 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/7959518?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.kmpt.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Join our multidisciplinary team at Kent and Medway Adolescent Hospital providing vital mental health rehabilitation to children and young people aged 13 up until their 18th birthday. You'll deliver expert social work interventions to support young people with complex needs, enabling them to live independently. The team works in close partnership with Children's Social Care to ensure each young person has the necessary resources available to enable them to engage in their rehab journey. As a Senior Social Worker you will collaborate with OT's, Psychologists, Nurses and Doctors. We are serious about diversity and inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from under-represented communities for our more senior roles, like this one. ### Main duties of the job As a Senior Social Worker, you will provide a high standard of support and care delivery with regards to social work needs to those service users whose ability to cope with the tasks of living are threatened or impaired by mental health issues, emotional, psychological and social problems. You will work closely with other agencies, parents/families and individuals to support service users with a clear focus on recovery, social inclusion and social justice. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please refer to the attached job description for full details and main responsibilities of the role. ## Job Details Join our multidisciplinary team at Kent and Medway Adolescent Hospital providing vital mental health rehabilitation to children and young people aged 13 up until their 18th birthday. You'll deliver expert social work interventions to support young people with complex needs, enabling them to live independently. The team works in close partnership with Children's Social Care to ensure each young person has the necessary resources available to enable them to engage in their rehab journey. As a Senior Social Worker you will collaborate with OT's, Psychologists, Nurses and Doctors. We are serious about diversity and inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from under-represented communities for our more senior roles, like this one. ## Job Description As a Senior Social Worker, you will provide a high standard of support and care delivery with regards to social work needs to those service users whose ability to cope with the tasks of living are threatened or impaired by mental health issues, emotional, psychological and social problems. You will work closely with other agencies, parents/families and individuals to support service users with a clear focus on recovery, social inclusion and social justice. ## Responsibilities Please refer to the attached job description for full details and main responsibilities of the role. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Significant prior experience working with individuals presenting with acute mental health issues and challenging behaviours - Evidence your ability to develop effective working relationships with service users and their carer’s and show evidence of good assessment practice. - Prior experience working with Children and Young people in mental health services - Experience of providing consultation, mentoring, and developing colleagues and liaising with other service providers. ### Knowledge and Sills **Essential** - Ability to manage a complex case load and act as lead professional - Ability to identify ways to overcome issues that threaten delivery of services, escalating risks where appropriate and dealing with emergency/crisis situations - Ability to apply a number of holistic therapeutic social work interventions from strengths based perspective promoting recovery and independence. - Significant experience of the social model in mental health and approaches to social work intervention including complex family dynamics and carers support. - To have the ability to support service users through a process of recovery and self-determination in order to support them to recognise there rights and needs to be free to make their own choices and decisions - Ability to effectively manage case administration, maintain appropriate records including report writing. ### Qualifications and Registrations **Essential** - Relevant Professional Qualifications DipSW, BA, MA in Social Work, CQSW - PEPS 2 qualified Practice Educator - The post holder should be working at the level of capability set out in the Professional Capability Framework at the Advanced Practitioner/Professional Educator/ Social Work Manager level - Registered with Social Work England **Desirable** - Additional qualifications e.g. qualified AMHP or Best Interest Assessor, or other relevant continued professional development. ## Documents - [staff benefits (pdf, 623.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2394) - [trust name change (pdf, 813.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2991) - [job description and person specification (pdf, 208.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10328099) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.