Social Work Assistant

Job summary

The service is designed to provide an integrated model of social care that promotes a positive experience for service users and carers across the whole service.

LPFT have a Section 75 agreement under the National Health Service Act (2006) where Lincolnshire County Council have devolved their assessment and care management duties to LPFT. Social work in the Trust is delivered through a Community Social Care Resource where social care staff are aligned to the integrated community teams but are managed and supervised from within the social care resource. Three distinct Social Work teams exist covering the East, West and South of the county respectively. Each team has a Team Manager and mangers are expected to work closely in order to provide a consistent service across the county.

This post of Social work assistant is a key role in the Trust's Community Social Care Resource providing reablement work with service users within their own homes and in the local community.

This is a permanent post. You will carry out direct work with service users and colleagues within other teams within the Trust; promoting multi disciplinary working. The post holder will be responsible for the implementation of care plans and care packages to services users experiencing severe mental illness and/or mental health problems within a defined locality. The post holder will work under the supervision of a Social Worker and will be managed by our senior social worker.

Main duties of the job

To liaise with the Registered Social Care Professionals and carry out assigned duties delivering a variety of mental health and social care interventions to service users suffering from mental ill health.

Provide direct social care support including short term social work intervention, rapid reablement and longer-term social care intervention under the direction of a qualified social worker.

Provide direct physical, social and psychological care to service users under supervision in accordance with individualised support plans, reporting about the service user's condition to qualified staff and enabling service users to achieve defined outcomes set out in their support plans.

Exchange factual information with service users, who may have barriers to understanding using reassurance, tact and empathy.

Contribute to the assessment and analysis of clinical and non-clinical situations, making routine judgments to resolve straight forward problems.

To be prepared to work on own initiative as necessary and report to social care professionals.

Promote equality for all service users and understand their social care needs.

Demonstrate an awareness of service user and carer perspectives on the provision of social care.

Comply with and carry out safe practice in accordance with Trust policies and procedures and HCPC codes of conduct.

Liaise with, and develop effective partnership working within the main duties of the post,

About us

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!

We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.

This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.