Social Worker

Would you like to join an innovative, dynamic and ambitious team committed to delivering the best possible care for our service-users? The Enhanced Rehabilitation Outreach Service (EROS) is looking for a compassionate and enthusiastic Social Worker to welcome into our team as it takes part in an exciting expansion across East and North Hertfordshire. EROS provides rehabilitation interventions and support to individuals with complex and enduring long term severe mental illness in the community. The service provides a dedicated, integrated multi-disciplinary team of professionals, who aim to improve quality of life, promote hope, recovery, and individual resilience, and reduce reliance on crisis and inpatient services., As a Social Worker, you'll join a supportive staff team that empowers one another to deliver the best care. A current Social Worker notes, "The EROS Team has been the best opportunity as a social worker… it's a chance to do pure social work, always involving progress and positive change." The team uses a mini-team approach, placing service users and carers at the center to provide a holistic and consistent care pathway. Staff describe it as giving service users "a full rounded experience of different types of care" while remaining individualized and holistic. EROS focuses on developing professional strengths, with access to professional networks and guidance from Senior Leadership across key disciplines. This includes the trust's only Consultant Occupational Therapist working in Rehabilitation services. The team provides evidence-based, recovery-focused interventions through co-produced care plans that build resilience and improve wellbeing. These plans are tailored to meet individual cultural and social needs. The service has improved care outcomes, supporting people to return to the community, avoid admissions, and reduce inpatient stays. It has been praised by the Royal College of Psychiatrists for its innovation and has been nominated for several national awards., To be a champion of social care with a comprehensive understanding of legislation and statutory guidance. To undertake comprehensive 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. 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.

• An appropriate professional social work qualification
• Education to degree level
• Registration with Social Work England
• Training in principles and application of outcomes focussed assessments and personalization
• Relevant post-qualifying training for social workers
• Training and experience in Safeguarding
Desirable criteria
• Approved Mental Health Professional/Best Interests Assessment Training, Significant post qualification experience
• Knowledge of legislation, theory and policy in relation to relevant care group.
• Experience of undertaking assessments, focussed as personalisation, choice and control, and care planning.
• Understanding and experience 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.
• Experience of work as Approved Mental Health Professional and/or Best Interests Assessor., You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
  
  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 4500 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. These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it! Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?, 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 4^th 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 though 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