ASYE Social Worker with Recruitment Incentive
Band 5
Main area: Social Work
Grade: Band 5
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 367-ACMS-8699
Site: NW Adult Community Mental Health Team, 99 Waverley Road, St Albans, AL3 5TL
Town: St Albans
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 per annum pro rata + 5% of basic salary (min £1,258 max £2,122)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 30/09/2024 23:59
Values Based Screener
At Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust we are looking for people to join us who share our values and those of the NHS. Before your application can be considered please take part in our online values questionnaire. After completion, you will receive a 'completion code' by email, valid for 6 months and required to submit your application form.
Are you a newly Qualified Social Worker seeking your first position in mental health?
Are you a Social Worker with some experience who is looking to enhance your knowledge and skills in mental health working?
If yes, we would love to hear from you. We are seeking to recruit an ASYE Social Worker to join the Adult Community Mental Health Service (ACMHS) in North West Hertfordshire.
This role attracts a Golden Hello of £3,500, new employees only. Terms and conditions apply.
We welcome diversity in our workforce and encourage applicants from all ages and backgrounds, including those with lived experience of mental health difficulties.
Our team is based in St Albans and provides services to the locality of NW Herts. The service operates Monday – Friday, 9am – 5pm.
For an informal chat, please contact Rob Hill on 01727 804700.
Main duties of the job
All Social Workers must be registered with Social Work England.
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 coordination of care from a social perspective to adults accessing the service. You will deliver recovery-focused care and support to service users and their carers, ensuring safety while promoting choice, control, and independence.
You will actively address adversity, support adults at risk of social inclusion, and assist those accessing support to deal with various adverse circumstances. You will champion equality and diversity and be expected to challenge discrimination in all its forms.
You will hold a caseload comprising adults with a wide range of mental health and social care needs. You will ensure constant reflection and development of your practice in line with the standards set by Social Work England.
All entry-level social workers joining the Trust will be expected to participate in the Assessed and Supported Year in Employment.
Working for our organisation
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission, aiming to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
Our family of over 3500 members of staff provides health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health, and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk. We deliver these services within the community and several inpatient settings.
The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families, and carers, underpinned by choice, independence, and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To be a champion of social care with an understanding of legislation and statutory guidance.
To undertake assessments and reviews for people who may present with high risk or those with significant interpersonal, social, legal, and/or environmental complexities, ensuring appropriate assessments against social care eligibility criteria as defined by The Care Act 2014.
To offer direct support to service users and their carers, and to colleagues, through information and advice, ensuring those who do not meet social care eligibility are appropriately signposted and supported.
To ensure that appropriate health and social care services are commissioned on behalf of service users, including the duty to offer direct payments, and processes are in place for service users to be charged by the local authority for social care services received, if applicable.
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.
To undertake regular risk assessments and ensure that vulnerable people are kept safe.
To comply with child and adult safeguarding practice in line with current policy and take a role in adult safeguarding investigations, which may involve supporting the implementation of protection plans.
To commit to best practice when undertaking carer assessments, including identifying contingency plans and provision of support.
To ensure the involvement of service users and their carers so the Trust can learn from their experiences to make improvements to service delivery.
For a more in-depth Person and Job Description please see attached before applying.
Person specification
Qualifications
* An appropriate professional social work qualification (e.g. DipSW)
* Registration with Social Work England
* Training in principles and application of outcomes-focused assessments and personalisation
Experience and Knowledge
* Knowledge of legislation, theory, and policy in relation to the relevant care group
* Experience of undertaking assessments focused on personalisation, choice and control, and care planning
* Knowledge and understanding of personal budgets and direct payments
* Experience of multidisciplinary working and ability to work collaboratively
* Experience of partnership working with service users and carers, demonstrating dignity and respect
Skills and Aptitudes
* Ability to analyse service user and carer information
* Experience of undertaking small scale audits and surveys
Communication and People Skills
* Excellent ability to communicate with a wide range of stakeholders including service users and carers, other professional colleagues, members of other organisations, and local communities, verbally and in writing
* Ability to manage highly sensitive information
* Experience of using electronic recording systems and ability to produce accurate, appropriate, and timely reports
Other
* Form of own transportation is needed to travel between locations
General
* Experience of working in an integrated health and social care environment
About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is rated by the Care Quality Commission as an Outstanding provider of mental health and learning disability services. In 2021, we won the prestigious Health Service Journal award for Mental Health Trust of the Year, with the judges saying they were “blown away” by our people’s achievements and that everything they saw “sings and hums”. This year, our staff rated us the 4th best mental health and learning disability trust to work for out of all 52 trusts in the country. Our staff tell us that they are proud to be part of the HPFT team, proud of the standard of care we provide, and proud that service users are our top priority. Our people tell us they feel supported through a great development, wellbeing, and work-life balance offer and a highly compassionate, values-driven culture. We are equally proud of our staff, who live our values of being welcoming, kind, positive, respectful, and professional so that together we provide great care and great outcomes for our service users and carers.
If you would like to join a team to be proud of and you share our values and passion for great care and outcomes for our service users and carers, we would love to hear from you.
Additional Information
HPFT is committed to being an equal opportunities employer and in order to reflect the diversity of its population, positively encourages applications from all areas of the community. We aim to be a representative organisation regarding age, disability, ethnicity, gender, beliefs, and sexual orientation, and are fully committed to equality, diversity, and human rights.
The Trust is committed to helping staff balance work and home life and welcomes applications from candidates wishing to work part-time or under flexible working arrangements.
Infection Control
All our staff will need to comply with current Infection Prevention and Control measures which could include wearing a mask on all our Trust sites and in all roles.
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.
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