Main area: Social Work
Grade Band: 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (working from home a day a week possible)
Job ref: 267-OA7125148
Site: Warneford Hospital
Town: Oxford
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum/pro-rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 01/05/2025 23:59
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.
We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion, so if you’re excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, then please get in touch and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.
Job overview
Are you an experienced Social Worker looking for a new challenge?
We are a friendly and dynamic Inpatient Social Work Team in the beautiful City of Oxford looking for a mental health Social Worker to work in partnership with people who use mental health services. You will work alongside the multi-disciplinary team on the ward and wider adult mental health team to provide targeted support to people who live with severe mental health conditions.
Sometimes the work is fast-paced, and you may be working with situations that have high levels of complexity, risk, or vulnerability. You will be well supported by your colleagues and you will have monthly supervision. You will be a very important part of the mental health social work group and you will be invited to attend the monthly social work forum where our energetic collective meets to share ideas and talk about the messy stuff.
We understand the importance of work-life balance, so if you have other interests that you want to develop, then let’s have a chat to see how we can help you achieve a balance that works for you. Our diverse community would love to have you join the team, so get in touch for an informal chat.
Main duties of the job
The responsibilities of the role include, but are not limited to:
* To provide support and give time to an allocated group of service users in order to promote their recovery and maintain them in a community environment, helping them to build their own support network.
* To provide regular and practical support to service users in developing and managing independence and maintaining dignity and self-respect.
* To support service users to identify their needs and to assist the mental health social worker to assess, plan, implement and evaluate individual care and support plans.
* To have the individual service user’s needs at the fore at all times and use agreed values and skills to underpin their day-to-day work.
* To provide support with daily living including self-care and home management e.g., budgeting, cooking, cleaning, and shopping in line with the person agreed eligible needs.
The post holder will work within a designated inpatient area, supporting the adult inpatient wards within that area.
You will have to demonstrate the skills to maintain your Social Work professional identity when working within an inpatient environment.
Working for our organisation
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health, and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics, and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible.
Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”
Our values are: “Caring, safe, and excellent”
At Oxford Health, we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
* Excellent opportunities for career progression
* Access to tailored individual and Trust-wide learning and development
* 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
* NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants, and retailers
* Lease car scheme
* Cycle to work scheme
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Mental Health First Aiders
* Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
* Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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.
Person specification
Qualification
* Professional Qualification (Degree or equivalent)
* Post graduate education specifically relating to client group (Post basic qualification in community care/research awareness/management)
Experience
* To have appropriate experience which should include community and working with mental health.
* To have appropriate experience of working with mental health.
Skills
* To be IT literate
* To be willing to learn new IT systems
Personal Qualities
* To be able to manage in a stressful working environment and with emotional or aggressive patients/or carers
* Able to work within a multi-disciplinary team
Other requirements
* To comprehend and work within the Trust policies of data protection, equal opportunities, Health & Safety and to meet the diverse needs of patients
* Car Driver
* All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
* Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
* We’re advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
* Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
* We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
* We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring, and excellent.
* We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
* Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name: Shabnam Akhter
Job title: Social Work Manager
Email address: shabnam.akhter@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 07884 996920
Additional information: At Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust we want to employ people not just with experience, but with the aptitude and motivation to succeed and whose values resonate with our own. Therefore, if you don’t meet all the requirements of the role and are unsure about applying but are excited about the opportunity, please do get in touch. We will be happy to discuss the requirements in more detail ahead of making a written application.
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