Job summary This role attracts a Golden Hello payment of £3,500. T's & C's apply, new employees only. Our welcoming and supportive Adult Community Mental Health Service in Welwyn Garden City has the opportunity of a Senior Social Worker post within the multidisciplinary team. This a fantastic development opportunity to join an experienced group of clinicians and practitioners and develop your career within our supportive and experienced multi disciplinary Adult Mental Health service. The post is supported by a team that includes social workers and Support, Time and Recovery workers. Main duties of the job As Senior Social Worker, this post will give you the opportunity to promote, lead and act in accordance with the principles of personalisation, working to promote wellbeing, and enabling individual's rights to choice and control, in a multi disciplinary mental health team. In Hertfordshire the Adult Mental Health Teams are integrated health and social care teams.. In this post you will be a key champion and leader of social care within the locality. You will be supported to develop your skills to provide robust, consistent expert social care practice advice in partnership with other specialist senior social care colleagues including the professional leads for social care in the Trust. You will also participate in the senior leadership of the team including supporting the management of the Duty System on a rota with colleagues. About us Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trustare one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from theCare Quality Commission Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout: Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional. About us - Hertfordshire NHS Partnership Trust Heard. Respected. Included. Together, we help people with mental ill-health, learning disabilities and autism to live life to the fullest. We work throughout Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Norfolk Date posted 07 November 2024 Pay scheme Agenda for change Band Band 7 Salary £46,148 to £52,809 a year per annum pro rata Contract Permanent Working pattern Full-time Reference number 367-ACMS-8856-A Job locations Rosanne House, Parkway, Welwyn Garden City, AL8 6HG Parkway Welwyn Garden City AL8 6HG Job description Job responsibilities 1. To be a champion of social care with a comprehensive understanding of legislation and statutory guidance.2. To maintain regular links and attend meetings with the corporate Social Work and Safeguarding Team, and keep up to date with accurate, consistent, and robust social care, legal and practice advice, and support to locality staff.3. To undertake the most complex assessments and reviews, for people who may present with a high risk, or those with significant interpersonal, social, legal and/or environmental complexities, ensuring people are assessed appropriately against social care eligibility criteria as defined by The Care Act 2014.4. To offer direct support to service users and their carers, and to colleagues, through information and advice, to ensure that those who do not meet social care eligibility are appropriately signposted and supported.5. To ensure that appropriate health and social care services are commissioned with and on behalf of service users, including the duty to offer direct payments, and that processes are in place for service users to be charged by the local authority for the social care services they receive, if applicable.6. 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.7. To undertake regular risk assessments and ensure that vulnerable people are kept safe.8. To lead in the promotion of both child and adult safeguarding practice in line with current policy, and take a lead role in adult safeguarding investigations, including the chairing of strategy meetings and case conferences.9. To advise colleagues in best practice when undertaking carer assessments, including identifying contingency plans, and provision of support. For a more indepth Job and Person Specification please read the documents attached before applying Job description Job responsibilities 1. To be a champion of social care with a comprehensive understanding of legislation and statutory guidance.2. To maintain regular links and attend meetings with the corporate Social Work and Safeguarding Team, and keep up to date with accurate, consistent, and robust social care, legal and practice advice, and support to locality staff.3. To undertake the most complex assessments and reviews, for people who may present with a high risk, or those with significant interpersonal, social, legal and/or environmental complexities, ensuring people are assessed appropriately against social care eligibility criteria as defined by The Care Act 2014.4. To offer direct support to service users and their carers, and to colleagues, through information and advice, to ensure that those who do not meet social care eligibility are appropriately signposted and supported.5. To ensure that appropriate health and social care services are commissioned with and on behalf of service users, including the duty to offer direct payments, and that processes are in place for service users to be charged by the local authority for the social care services they receive, if applicable.6. 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.7. To undertake regular risk assessments and ensure that vulnerable people are kept safe.8. To lead in the promotion of both child and adult safeguarding practice in line with current policy, and take a lead role in adult safeguarding investigations, including the chairing of strategy meetings and case conferences.9. To advise colleagues in best practice when undertaking carer assessments, including identifying contingency plans, and provision of support. For a more indepth Job and Person Specification please read the documents attached before applying Person Specification Experience Essential An appropriate professional social work x qualification Registration with General Social Work England Education to degree level Masters Degree or equivalent training Approved Mental Health Professional training and qualification (or prepared to undertake training within a year of appointment) Relevant post-qualifying training for social workers Desirable Other post-qualifying training e.g. CBT, family therapy Best Interests Assessment training Experience Essential Extensive post-qualification experience with demonstrable evidence of excellent practice at advanced level Extensive knowledge of legislation, statutory guidance, theory, and policy in relation to adult and children's social care Experience of undertaking assessment focused on personalisation, choice and control, and care planning Understanding of and experience of use of personal budgets and direct payments Experience of supervising and mentoring others Evidence of multidisciplinary and collaborative working Evidence of partnership working with service users and carers, demonstrating dignity and respect, particularly in very challenging situations Person Specification Experience Essential An appropriate professional social work x qualification Registration with General Social Work England Education to degree level Masters Degree or equivalent training Approved Mental Health Professional training and qualification (or prepared to undertake training within a year of appointment) Relevant post-qualifying training for social workers Desirable Other post-qualifying training e.g. CBT, family therapy Best Interests Assessment training Experience Essential Extensive post-qualification experience with demonstrable evidence of excellent practice at advanced level Extensive knowledge of legislation, statutory guidance, theory, and policy in relation to adult and children's social care Experience of undertaking assessment focused on personalisation, choice and control, and care planning Understanding of and experience of use of personal budgets and direct payments Experience of supervising and mentoring others Evidence of multidisciplinary and collaborative working Evidence of partnership working with service users and carers, demonstrating dignity and respect, particularly in very challenging situations 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 this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab). UK Registration Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window). Additional information 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 this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab). UK Registration Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window). Employer details Employer name Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust Address Rosanne House, Parkway, Welwyn Garden City, AL8 6HG Parkway Welwyn Garden City AL8 6HG Employer's website https://www.hpft.nhs.uk/careers/ (Opens in a new tab)