Social Worker

Working collaboratively in community setting, and to make a significant impact by supporting others, upholding best practices, and ensuring that each individual's needs are met through a holistic, recovery-oriented approach., To deliver expert social work assessments and interventions for adults with complex mental health and social care needs in the community To lead and advise on social care, safeguarding, and Care Act responsibilities within the MDT To support professional development and quality of practice within community services. Provide professional leadership for social work practice within the MDT Offer formal supervision and day-to-day guidance to social workers, including ASYE support and assessment. Act as a practice educator or assessor, supporting workforce development Contribute to service improvement, audit, and quality assurance initiatives. Work collaboratively with psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, OTs, and peer workers. Liaise with Local Authorities, housing, voluntary sector, and social care providers Represent the service in multi-agency meetings, safeguarding forums, and care reviews. Provide specialist social care advice to health colleagues to support integrated care delivery

• An appropriate social work qualification Registration with Social Work England Education to degree level
• Master's degree or equivalent post-qualifying training
• Approved Mental Health Professional training and qualification (or prepared to undertake training within a year of appointment to role)
Desirable criteria
• Relevant post-qualifying training for social workers Other relevant post-qualification training (e.g. CBT, family therapy)
• Best Interest Assessor training, Significant 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 personalisation, choice and control, and care planning, You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
  
  Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission.
Our family of over 4,500 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, HPFT supports people with mental ill health, learning disabilities and autism across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Norfolk and Essex. We employ around 4,500 people who deliver these services within the community and in inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services and medium and low secure learning disabilities services. We have operated as a NHS Foundation Trust since our authorisation in August 2007., The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.