Social Worker + Recruitment Incentive

Job overview

This role attracts a Golden Hello payment of £3,500. T's & C's apply, new employees only.

All Social Workers must be registered with Social Work England.

The Enhanced Primary Mental Health Service (EPMHS) provide a multidisciplinary service to those with moderate and severe mental health difficulties in primary care. There is a focus on psychological provision for those who do not meet criteria for Adult Community Mental Health Services or the NHS Talking Therapies Teams. Service users present with multiple social stressors and we are looking for a social worker to develop this role and and take the lead working directly with those with more complex difficulties, providing supervision to support staff providing social care to service users and providing advice to the wider MDT on social care matters.

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 interventions (which may require co-ordination 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.

Main duties of the job

The postholder will assess needs and outcomes and analyse a wide range of information in relation to service users and carers. They will ensure that complex information is analysed, and recommendations made, for which there is professional accountability. They will involve service users and carers to enable us to learn from their experiences. The postholder may be asked to undertake surveys and audits within their locality and contribute to trust wide surveys when required.

The post holder will hold a key role in providing social care assessments and commissioned packages of care, and will ensure that your practice ensures the service is meeting its statutory social care functions as described in the Care Act 2014.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Key Relationships The postholder will be expected to work as part of the multi-disciplinary team. They  will need to work in partnership with service users and carers and a wide range of  stakeholders within and outside of the Trust. They will need to demonstrate principles  of dignity and respect, focusing on personalisation, choice, and control. They will be  a champion and expert in the field of social care and safeguarding and will be  responsible for ensuring that colleagues within the service provide high quality social  care services.  Duties and Responsibilities The postholder will assess needs and outcomes and analyse a wide range of  information in relation to service users and carers. They will ensure that complex  information is analysed, and recommendations made, for which there is professional  accountability. They will involve service users and carers to enable us to learn from  their experiences. The postholder may be asked to undertake surveys and audits  within their locality and contribute to trust wide surveys when required. 1. To be a champion of social care with a comprehensive understanding of  legislation and statutory guidance.  2. To take a lead in the promotion of adult safeguarding practice and undertake  safeguarding enquires and contribute to the provision of care plans that protect  both adults and children from abuse.  3. To undertake comprehensive assessments and reviews, for people who may  present with a high risk, or those with significant interpersonal, social, legal  and/or environmental complexities, ensuring people are assessed appropriately  against social care eligibility criteria as defined by The Care Act 2014.  4. To offer direct support to service users and their carers, and to colleagues,  through information and advice, to ensure that those who do not meet social  care eligibility are appropriately signposted and supported. 5. To ensure that appropriate health and social care services are commissioned  with and on behalf of service users, including the duty to offer direct payments,  and that processes are in place for service users to be charged by the local  authority for the social care services they receive, if applicable.  6. To contribute to core tasks within EPMHS including Dialog+ First Conversations. 7. To ensure that commissioned services allow choice to service users and carers  and focus on people living in the community with appropriate support and access  to universal services.  8. To undertake regular risk assessments and ensure that vulnerable people are  kept safe. 9. To undertake carer assessments, including identifying contingency plans, and  provision of support. 10. To be skilled in partnership working and identify, develop, and facilitate a wide  range of recovery-focused community services, ensuring that colleagues within  the locality are also aware of developments and best practice.  11. To ensure the involvement of service users and their carers to that the Trust can  learn from their experiences to make improvements to service delivery.  12. To ensure accurate computer records of all work undertaken are kept up to date. 13. To undertake your own post qualifying and other appropriate training to ensure  high standards of practice and continuation of your registration with Social Work  England. 14. To provide both management and reflective supervision to newly qualified social  workers and unregistered social care staff. 15. To support newly qualified social workers through the Assessed and Supported  Year in Employment (ASYE), with opportunities to train as an ASYE assessor. 16. To undertake duties as an Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) or be  willing to undertake AMHP training. 17. To participate in your own regular supervision and ensure regular reflection on  your own practice as both a social worker and AMHP. 18. To undertake other tasks and duties which form part of the delegated social care  responsibilities accepted by the Trust on behalf of Hertfordshire County Council.  19. To adhere to Trust policies and procedures. 20. To undertake additional training as required. 21. To carry out any other duties as appropriately identified by your line manager

Please see attached job description and person specification for further details