Job summary
- Main area
- Adult MH Health
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 367-ACMS-3884
- Employer
- Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Rosanne House
- Town
- Welwyn Garden City
- Salary
- £50,008 - £56,908 per annum, pro rata (5% HCAS Included)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Social Worker
Band 7
Values Based Screener
At Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust we are looking for people to join us who share our values and those of the NHS. Before your application can be considered please take part on our online values questionnaire, which you can find below. When you have finished you will be sent a 'completion code' by email, which will be valid for 6 months and required to submit your application form.
Job overview
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.
Main duties of the job
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
Working for our organisation
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 4,000 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:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- 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 2014.
- 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.
For more details, please see the Job Description and Person Spec
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- An appropriate professional social work x qualification
- Registration with General Social Work England
- Education to degree level
- Masters Degree or equivalent training
- Approved Mental Health Professional training and qualification (or prepared to undertake training within a year of appointment)
- Relevant post-qualifying training for social workers
Desirable criteria
- Other post-qualifying training e.g. CBT, family therapy
- Best Interests Assessment training
Experience
Essential criteria
- Minimum 5 years 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 on personalisation, choice and control, and care planning
- Understanding of and experience of use of personal budgets and direct payments
- Experience of supervising and mentoring others
- Evidence of multidisciplinary and collaborative working
- Evidence of partnership working with service users and carers, demonstrating dignity and respect, particularly in very challenging situations
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kate Drew
- Job title
- Service Line Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01707 364000
- Additional information
please email
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