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Social Worker - Inpatient and Forensic Community LD Team • Southampton
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

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First, we'll enable your camera & microphone and then ask you to record a short introduction about yourself, about 30 seconds long, to make sure your camera is working ok.

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1. Can you tell us about your previous experience working with individuals with learning disabilities and complex needs? Can you tell us about your previous experience working with individuals with learning disabilities and complex needs?

2. What specific experience do you have in the forensic context, particularly with clients who have been in contact with the criminal justice system? What specific experience do you have in the forensic context, particularly with clients who have been in contact with the criminal justice system?

3. Describe a challenging case you have worked on. What strategies did you employ to effectively support the individual involved? Describe a challenging case you have worked on. What strategies did you employ to effectively support the individual involved?

4. How do you ensure that your practice remains person-centred, particularly in a forensic setting? How do you ensure that your practice remains person-centred, particularly in a forensic setting?

5. What is your understanding of the Good Lives Model? How have you applied its principles in your previous roles? What is your understanding of the Good Lives Model? How have you applied its principles in your previous roles?

6. Can you provide an example of how you have worked collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team in the past? What was the outcome? Can you provide an example of how you have worked collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team in the past? What was the outcome?

7. What skills do you believe are essential for a Social Worker in a forensic learning disabilities role? What skills do you believe are essential for a Social Worker in a forensic learning disabilities role?

8. How do you approach risk assessment and management when working with forensic patients? How do you approach risk assessment and management when working with forensic patients?

9. Discuss your experience writing social work reports and presenting them in formal settings. Can you give an example of a report you found particularly challenging? Discuss your experience writing social work reports and presenting them in formal settings. Can you give an example of a report you found particularly challenging?

10. What is your understanding of the relevant health and social care legislation that impacts your practice, particularly in relation to forensic social work? What is your understanding of the relevant health and social care legislation that impacts your practice, particularly in relation to forensic social work?

11. How do you ensure compliance with policies and regulations when supporting service users in the community? How do you ensure compliance with policies and regulations when supporting service users in the community?

12. How do you engage and support the families and carers of service users within a forensic context? How do you engage and support the families and carers of service users within a forensic context?

13. Can you describe a time when you modelled good practice? What impact did this have on your team or the service users? Can you describe a time when you modelled good practice? What impact did this have on your team or the service users?

14. Reflecting on your practice, how do you engage in clinical supervision and reflective practice? What benefits have you experienced from this approach? Reflecting on your practice, how do you engage in clinical supervision and reflective practice? What benefits have you experienced from this approach?

15. How do you prioritise your professional development in the field of social work, particularly within forensic settings? How do you prioritise your professional development in the field of social work, particularly within forensic settings?

16. This role may involve flexible working arrangements. How do you manage your time and adapt to changing priorities? This role may involve flexible working arrangements. How do you manage your time and adapt to changing priorities?

17. Can you provide an example of a situation where you had to adjust your working style to better meet the needs of a service user? Can you provide an example of a situation where you had to adjust your working style to better meet the needs of a service user?

18. Why are you particularly interested in this position with the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust? Why are you particularly interested in this position with the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust?

19. What do you hope to achieve in your first few months in this role if you are successful? What do you hope to achieve in your first few months in this role if you are successful?

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1. Can you tell us about your previous experience working with individuals with learning disabilities and complex needs?

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Role: Social Worker - Inpatient and Forensic Community LD Team in Southampton

Interviewed on Friday 4 April 2025 at 22:52.

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{"interviewQueryText":"What are some good interview questions in British English for the job description below?\n\n-------------------------------------------\n\nSocial Worker - Inpatient and Forensic Community LD Team with Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in Southampton, Hampshire\n\n Are you looking for an interesting and rewarding job? An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic and highly motivated Social Worker to join us in a unique post in Ashford Low Secure Forensic Learning Disabilities Service, with one a day a week in our exciting co-located Community Forensic Learning Disabilities Team. You must be able to work sensitively with people with Learning Disabilities and complex needs who have come into contact with the criminal justice system. You will be committed to Person Centred Practice and skilled at working collaboratively with multi-disciplinary colleagues and a wider network of other services to support the discharge and successful in transition into the community. The role provides excellent learning opportunities, and you will be welcomed into a supportive, friendly, and highly skilled team with a positive, compassionate approach to working with people who have complex forensic needs. We work with a strong multidisciplinary ethos, which is underpinned by formulation, clinical supervision, and reflective practice alongside the Good Lives Model. The Forensic Social Worker will provide case management to a defined caseload and work collaboratively with multidisciplinary colleagues to assess needs and risks within a forensic patient population. The Forensic Social Worker will provide a professional social work service to service users, their families and carers and routinely work in collaboration with them, MDT colleagues and external stakeholders from the point of pre-admission to discharge The Forensic Social Worker will write (and present within formal settings) Admission Social History Reports, Reports for CPA Meetings, Managers Hearings and Mental Health Tribunals, and Funding Panels. You will model good practice, setting standards and expectations for others. To deputise for the Senior Forensic Social worker at Social Care at a range of operational and clinical meetings, when required. The Forensic Social Worker to support the social care needs of service users in the context of relevant health and social care legislation and policy frameworks including but not limited to: Community Learning Disabilities Team In line with above. Working with patient who have been discharged in to the community or living in the community with complex forensic needs. Liaising with key stakeholders such as Local Authority and Probation. Supporting Transition from hospital other than Ashford alongside wider FCLDT team not care co-ordinator. See attached document for more information. About us Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process. "}