Senior Social Worker inCheshunt inCheshunt PUBLISHED 27 DEC 2023

• Be a champion of social care with a comprehensive understanding of legislation and statutory guidance.
• Maintain regular links and attend meetings with the corporate Social Work and Safeguarding Team, and keep up to date with accurate, consistent, and robust social care, legal and practice advice, and support to locality staff.
• Undertake the most complex 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 2.
• 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.
• Ensure that appropriate health and social care services are commissioned with and on behalf of service users, including the duty to offer direct payments, and that processes are in place for service users to be charged by the local authority for the social care services they receive, if applicable.
• Ensure that commissioned services allow choice to service users and carers and focus on people living in the community with appropriate support and access to universal services.
• Undertake regular risk assessments and ensure that vulnerable people are kept safe.
• Lead in the promotion of both child and adult safeguarding practice in line with current policy, and take a lead role in adult safeguarding investigations, including the chairing of strategy meetings and case conferences.
• Advise colleagues in best practice when undertaking carer assessments, including identifying contingency plans, and provision of support.
• Skilled in partnership working and identify, develop, and facilitate a wide range of recovery-focused community services, ensuring that colleagues within the locality are also aware of developments and best practice
• Ensure the involvement of service users and their carers to that the Trust can learn from their experiences to make improvements to service delivery.
• Ensure accurate computer records of all work undertaken are kept up to date.
• Undertake your own post qualifying and other appropriate training to ensure high standards of practice and continuation of your registration with Social Work England.
• Support the development of others in your team, including both experienced and newly qualified social workers, ensuring that they have regular access to continuing professional development.
• Provide both management and reflective supervision to experienced and newly qualified social workers18. To participate in your own regular supervision and ensure regular reflection on your own practice as both a social worker and AMHP.19. To undertake other tasks and duties which form part of the delegated social care responsibilities accepted by the Trust on behalf of Hertfordshire County Council.20. To adhere to Trust policies and procedures.21. To undertake additional training as required.22. To carry out any other duties as appropriately identified by your line manager.

Our welcoming and supportive Adult Community Mental Health Service in Ware has the opportunity to recruit into a Senior Social Worker post within the multidisciplinary team. You will be able to demonstrate skills to inspire, lead and manage staff in the delivery of the Care Act expectations for social care and safeguarding.

This a fantastic development opportunity to join an experienced group of clinicians and practitioners and develop your career with our services.

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

As Senior Social Worker, you will be required to;

• Promote, lead and act in accordance with the principles of personalisation, working to promote wellbeing, and enabling individual's rights to choice and control, in a multi disciplinary mental health team.
• Expected to give robust, consistent, and expert social care practice advice in partnership with other specialist senior social care colleagues.
• Support newly qualified social workers through the Assessed and Supported Year in Employment (ASYE), acting as an ASYE assessor and engagement in the ASYE moderation process.
• Undertake duties as an Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) or be willing to undertake AMHP training

In return at HPFT, we will:

• Support you to develop your skills to provide robust, consistent expert social care practice advice in partnership with other specialist senior social care colleagues including the professional leads for social care in the Trust.
• Leading company discounts and childcare vouchers
• Salary sacrifice schemes enabling staff to drive a new car or bike -saving on tax and insurance included
• Wellbeing activities - from mindfulness to yoga, pilates and our signature craft club join our monthly programme of regular and special events to support your wellbeing