Social Worker
- NHS
- Full Time
- Nottingham
- 37338.00 - 44962.00 a year
Job Description
Job summary
There is an exciting opportunity to join the growing social work workforce within Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust. Social workers play a crucial part in improving mental health outcomes for individuals, through understanding the social detriments of mental health and using a human rights approach. This requires advanced relationship-based skills focussed on personalisation and strength-based working, to support people to make positive, self-directed change.
The successful candidate will work as a social worker in a multi-disciplinary community mental health team. This involves supporting a caseload of individuals' who are experiencing social issues which are impacting their mental health by applying social work and psycoeducation interventions and representing the social work and social perspective in the team. Social work training and supervision is provided as well as opportunities to develop additional intervention skills required for working in a community mental health team.
Main duties of the job
This may include (but not exhaustive):
Relationship-based practice is the foundation of all social work and other interventions can be used alongside including:
- Holistic assessment (informed by the 'Wellbeing Principle' from the Care Act)
- Risk assessment/ positive risk taking
- Personalised care planning
- Brief solution focussed therapy
- Motivational interviewing (supporting change)
- Task centred approach
- Connecting People (supporting people to connect with others and their communities)
- Crisis intervention
- Narrative/ life story work
- Group work
- Advocacy
- Family work
- Carers support
- Determining capacity and making best interest decisions
- Supporting individuals to work towards goals/ aspirations.
- Supporting to sustain or achieve optimal independence and self-determination.
- Housing support
- Working towards discharge from team
- Social inclusion
- Benefits
- Supporting with children social work (support parent to understand processes/ attend local authority meetings etc)
About us
#TeamNottsHC comprises over 11,000 dedicated colleagues who #MakeADifference every day. We deliver intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic, and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire. Our care is provided from over 200 sites, spanning community locations, acute settings, and secure environments, including prisons.
We are one of the largest mental health and community Trusts in the East Midlands and one of Nottinghamshire's biggest employers. We also host national and regional services, such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
We offer a variety of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) groups, the Green Champions network, the Freedom to Speak Up network, the Health and Wellbeing Champions network, and the Menopause Champions network. These networks play a vital role in supporting our diverse workforce and promoting a culture of inclusivity.
The health and wellbeing of our colleagues is a top priority. We invest significantly in this through our in-house occupational health and staff counselling services, supported by a dedicated Health and Wellbeing team.
The Trust is committed to reducing its carbon emissions, with a specialised Energy and Environmental team working to ensure compliance with environmental legislation, enhance our environmental performance, and achieve our net-zero commitment
Job responsibilities
CCO for people experiencing social stressors that are impacting their mental health/ social stressors are the predominant issue that requires support.
Pieces of work where a patient requires social work input/ social work interventions. CCO will continue to work with the person and the social worker leads on the social aspect of that patients care.
- Complex safeguarding/ lead on safeguarding within the team (safeguarding link role).
- Deliver Behavioural Family Therapy interventions.
- Liaison with the Family Interventions Team (Think Family, Triangle of Care and carer support)/ lead within the team.
- Liaison with Social Care (attending regular meetings/ drop-in- local arrangements).
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MDT- promote social issues within the team to ensure inclusion of the socialperspective.
A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional qualification in Social Work, DipSW or equivalent
- Registered with Social Work England
Desirable
- Approved Mental Health Professional qualification
- Post-graduate qualifications in Social Work
- Practice Educators Award
- Relevant post-graduate training in Social Work, e.g. safeguarding, multiagency working, risk management, etc
Contractual Requirements
Essential
- A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010
- Ability to work flexibly to meet the needs of the service, which may include occasional evenings and weekends
Values and Behaviours
Essential
- All colleagues are expected to demonstrate that they act in line with Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Values: Trust Honesty Respect Compassion Teamwork
- All colleagues are expected to demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and how it applies to their role. The Trust's expectations are highlighted within our EDI Policy, and associated EDI and Human Rights legislation
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with patients/service users with a mental illness or personality disorder within a mental health setting including community, hospital, prison, young offender institute or forensic unit
- Experience of liaison with other services/agencies and professional colleagues
- Experience of maintaining high quality and contemporaneous written records, databases and producing reports
- Experience of compiling social circumstance reports for the purposes of Mental Health Tribunals and Managers' Panels
Desirable
- Experience of supervising other staff members or students.
- Experience of working for other statutory organisations, i.e. local authority, probation
- Experience of working within a secure setting, i.e. prison, young offenders institute, secure unit
Knowledge
Essential
- Thorough knowledge and understanding of current Mental Health Legislation
- Knowledge of relevant legislation with regard to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults
- Knowledge of the Care Programme Approach
- Awareness of current Social Work Standards
Desirable
- Knowledge of Criminal Justice Legislation.
- Knowledge of the Wells Road Centre and its purpose
Skills
Essential
- Ability to work independently and prioritise own workload
- Good communication, negotiation and liaison skills (both oral and written).
- Ability to function effectively within a multi-professional team and develop cohesive working relationships
- Ability to maintain clear professional boundaries when working with a challenging patient group
- Skilled in assessment and care planning
- Skilled in risk assessment andrisk management
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab) .
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to ...
