Job overview
West Kent Community Rehabilitation Service as Senior Social Worker.
The Community Rehabilitation Service provides a flexible range of mental health interventions to help clients with complex mental health needs manage their mental health more effectively and remain in their own homes. The team works in close partnership with Social Care and housing providers to ensure each client has the necessary resources available to enable them to engage in their rehab journey. Across the Community Rehabilitation teams, the clinical team consists of Occupational Therapists, Psychologists, Nurses, and VCSE Workers.
The post holder must hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
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 and individuals to support service users with a clear focus on recovery, social inclusion, and social justice.
Working for our organisation
Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.
We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability, and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people across the county.
The Trust (rated Good overall by the CQC and Outstanding for care) has 3,283 staff working in 66 buildings across 33 locations, covering an area of 1,450 square miles.
You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.
At KMPT, we are serious about diversity and about 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description for full details and main responsibilities of the role.
Person specification
Registration
* Registered with Social Work England
Qualifications
* 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
Desirable criteria
* Additional qualifications e.g. qualified AMHP or Best Interest Assessor, or other relevant continued professional development.
Experience
* Significant prior experience working with individuals presenting with mental health issues.
* Demonstrate a significant understanding of relationship-based social work practice.
* An understanding of the principles and values underlying the Mental Health Act (1983, as amended 2007) and Mental Capacity Act (2005); Human Rights Act 1998; Care Act 2014; Health and Social Care Act 2012; and other legislation as they relate to this service user group.
* Evidence your ability to develop effective working relationships with service users and their carers and show evidence of good assessment practice.
* Prior experience working in mental health services.
* Experience of providing consultation, mentoring, and developing colleagues and liaising with other service providers.
* Work as part of a Multi-disciplinary team.
Knowledge and Skills
* Ability to manage a complex caseload and act as lead professional.
* Ability to assess and manage effectively the performance and development needs of social work staff (PCF, CPD, KSS).
* Ability to identify ways to overcome issues that threaten the delivery of services, escalating risks where appropriate and dealing with emergency/crisis situations.
* To apply social work ethical principles and values to guide professional practice.
* Ability to apply a number of holistic therapeutic social work interventions from a strengths-based perspective promoting recovery and independence.
* Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to undertake direct work with complex clients, including the hard to engage, to address their psychosocial support needs.
* Good working knowledge of models and treatment of mental disorder.
* 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 recognize their 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.
* Ability to cope with high demand and throughput.
* Ability to use and understand the supervisory process, work to timescales, be self-managing, and proactive in caseload management.
KMPT Staff Benefits:
* NHS pension scheme: Your employer pays 23.7% towards your pension and life assurance benefits.
* Annual leave for Agenda for Change:
o 27 days for full time or pro rata if part time
o 29 days full time or pro rata if part time after 5 years NHS service
o 33 days full time or pro rata if part time after 10 years NHS service
Plus bank holidays, that's up to 41 days - more than 8 weeks paid time off!
* Flexible working: Covers job share, term time working, flexible shifts etc.
* Statutory and occupational maternity, paternity or adoption leave: Dependent on length of NHS service.
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