Senior Social Worker with Recruitment Incentive inWelwyn Garden City inWelwyn Garden City PUBLISHED THU 7 NOV 2024

This role attracts a Golden Hello payment of £3,500. T's & C's apply, new employees only.

Our welcoming and supportive Adult Community Mental Health Service in Welwyn Garden City has the opportunity of a Senior Social Worker post within the multidisciplinary team. This a fantastic development opportunity to join an experienced group of clinicians and practitioners and develop your career within our supportive and experienced multi disciplinary Adult Mental Health service.

The post is supported by a team that includes social workers and Support, Time and Recovery workers.

As Senior Social Worker, this post will give you the opportunity 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. In Hertfordshire the Adult Mental Health Teams are integrated health and social care teams. .

In this post you will be a key champion and leader of social care within the locality. You will be supported 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. You will also participate in the senior leadership of the team including supporting the management of the Duty System on a rota with colleagues.

About us

1. To be a champion of social care with a comprehensive understanding of legislation and statutory guidance.2. To 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.3. To 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 2.4. 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.5. To 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.6. To 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.7. To undertake regular risk assessments and ensure that vulnerable people are kept safe.8. To 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.9. To advise colleagues in best practice when undertaking carer assessments, including identifying contingency plans, and provision of support.

For a more indepth Job and Person Specification please read the documents attached before applying