Senior Social Worker

Are you an experienced Social Worker seeking promotion?

Are you looking to develop into leadership & take your social care skills in the field of Adult Mental Health further?

Do you want to be part of an energetic & dynamic team in the heart of the South West Hertfordshire community, working for an award-winning, outstanding Trust?

We are looking for a Band 7 Senior Social Worker to join the Adult Community Mental Health Service in Watford/Three Rivers, Hertfordshire.

You must hold a full valid driving license and have access to a car to use regularly for business purposes is essential (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).

The successful candidate will:
promote and lead the social care agenda within our multidisciplinary teams, acting in accordance with the principles of personalisation,

carry out complex assessments of need, plan and deliver services and review outcomes with the individual, their personal support networks and support providers

ensure practice within the team is responsive, inclusive and community based with a clear focus on outcomes

supervise the social care staff within the team and support the wider team with social care

manage the provision of assessments under the Care Act 2014 and the reviews of packages of care

work collaboratively with community partners to ensure individuals and families are supported and their needs are met

act as a champion and leader of social care, including safeguarding practice, within the locality/quadrant

be professionally registered.

In return, we can offer you:
leadership and management training opportunities

5% on top of basic salary high cost allowance supplement (subject to a minimum and a maximum payment pro rata)

27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service) plus bank holidays (pro rata where applicable)

One of the UK's best pension schemes

Comprehensive health and wellbeing services

Special leave for family and personal reasons

NHS Car Lease Scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

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, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 4000 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Our Trust values are:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

Job Summary:
Senior Social Workers are a key part of the senior management team and the focus of the role is to promote, lead and act in accordance with the principles of personalisation, ensuring the team are working to promote wellbeing, and enabling individual’s rights to choice and control. In doing so they will carry out complex assessments of need, plan and deliver services and review outcomes with the individual, their personal support networks and support providers.

Senior Social Workers will lead the Team's social care agenda and will supervise the social care staff within the Team. As a Senior Social Worker you will act as a champion and leader of social care within a locality/quadrant to ensure a focus on outcome based interventions. You will be expected to give robust, consistent expert social care practice advice, including safeguarding, in partnership with other specialist senior social care colleagues. You will reinforce the need to deliver high quality, cost effective social care services to service users and their carers focused on the principles of choice, control and independence, as well as ensuring their safety. You will have a small caseload of the most complex cases and you will manage the provision of assessments and reviews of social care intervention.

Partnership working is a key component of this post both within and outside the Trust and you will need to be innovative in ensuring that there is a range of appropriate services locally to support individual recovery journeys. You will work with community partners to address complex social issues and will be encouraged to think innovatively about how to address local concerns with our community partners.

You will be expected to work in partnership with service users and carers so that they can be empowered, and services can be improved as a result of feedback of their experiences.

All Senior Social Workers must be registered with Social Work England.

For a more detailed description, please see attached Job Description and Personal Specification.