Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Social Worker to join the new North 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 to 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.
Main duties of the job
As a Senior Social Worker, you will provide a high standard of support and care delivery regarding 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 in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.
Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.
We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.
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.
The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.
Our strategy
Our mission is what we set out to do every day: We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people. Our vision is where we want to be in the future: To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.
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
Essential criteria
* Registered with Social Work England
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* 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
Essential criteria
* Significant prior experience working with individuals presenting with mental health issues.
* Demonstrate a significant understanding in 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
Essential criteria
* 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 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 carer 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:
27 days for full time or pro rata if part time
29 days full time or pro rata if part time after 5 years NHS service
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!
Medical staff have national Terms and Conditions.
Buying and selling of annual leave is also available as part of our flexible approach to staff benefits.
Recommend a friend campaign: If you already work for us you could refer a friend from outside of the Trust to any of the roles below and you can receive £1000 if they are successfully recruited; Nursing staff - RMN RGN RNLD - Band 5 and 6, Medical Doctors, Clinical Psychologist and Allied Health Professionals.
Flexible working: Covers job share, term time working, flexible shifts etc. Just ask and we will try to help. #J-18808-Ljbffr