An exciting and rewarding opportunity is now available at Nottinghamshire Healthcare. We are seeking a compassionate and dedicated Social Worker to join our team and help make a difference in the lives of those we serve. Sponsorship is available for eligible candidates.
About the Trust
Nottinghamshire Healthcare is proud to employ over 11,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide a wide range of services, including:
Intellectual disability care
Mental health support
Community healthcare
Forensic and offender healthcare
Our services are delivered from 257 locations across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire. These include community settings, acute facilities, and secure environments, including prisons.
Why Join Us?
As one of the largest mental health and community Trusts in the East Midlands and a key employer in Nottinghamshire, we care for more than two million people annually. We are home to several national and regional services, such as:
The National High Secure Deaf Service
The Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health
With an annual budget of £628 million, we are committed to delivering high-quality, patient-centered care.
Make a Difference Today
Become part of a dedicated team that is transforming lives. Apply now to join Nottinghamshire Healthcare and help us continue to deliver exceptional care to our communities.
Position: Social Worker
Salary: £37,338 to £44.962 a year (pro rata for part time)
Job Type: Full Time
Location: Nottingham, UK
About the Role
There is an exciting opportunity to join the growing social work workforce within Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust. Social workers play a crucial part in improving mental health outcomes for individuals, through understanding the social detriments of mental health and using a human rights approach. This requires advanced relationship-based skills focussed on personalisation and strength-based working, to support people to make positive, self-directed change.
The successful candidate will work as a social worker In a multi-disciplinary community mental health team. This involves supporting a caseload of individuals’ who are experiencing social issues which are impacting their mental health by applying social work and psycoeducation interventions and representing the social work and social perspective in the team. Social work training and supervision is provided as well as opportunities to develop additional intervention skills required for working in a community mental health team.
Main Duties
This may include (but not exhaustive):
Relationship-based practice is the foundation of all social work and other interventions can be used alongside including:
- Holistic assessment (informed by the ‘Wellbeing Principle’ from the Care Act)
- Risk assessment/ positive risk taking
- Personalised care planning
- Brief solution focussed therapy
- Motivational interviewing (supporting change)
- Task centred approach
- Connecting People (supporting people to connect with others and their communities)
- Crisis intervention
- Narrative/ life story work
- Group work
- Advocacy
- Family work
- Carers support
- Determining capacity and making best interest decisions
- Supporting individuals to work towards goals/ aspirations.
- Supporting to sustain or achieve optimal independence and self-determination.
- Housing support
- Working towards discharge from team
- Social inclusion
- Benefits
- Supporting with children social work (support parent to understand processes/ attend local authority meetings etc)
Qualifications
- Professional qualification in Social Work, DipSW or equivalent
- Registered with Social Work England
Desirable
- Approved Mental Health Professional qualification
- Post-graduate qualifications in Social Work
- Practice Educators Award
- Relevant post-graduate training in Social Work, e.g. safeguarding, multiagency working, risk management, etc
Contractual Requirements (Essential)
- A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010
- Ability to work flexibly to meet the needs of the service, which may include occasional evenings and weekends
Values and Behaviours (Essential)
- All colleagues are expected to demonstrate that they act in line with Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Values: Trust Honesty Respect Compassion Teamwork
- All colleagues are expected to demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and how it applies to their role. The Trust’s expectations are highlighted within our EDI Policy, and associated EDI and Human Rights legislation
Experience (Essential)
- Experience of working with patients/service users with a mental illness or personality disorder within a mental health setting including community, hospital, prison, young offender institute or forensic unit
- Experience of liaison with other services/agencies and professional colleagues
- Experience of maintaining high quality and contemporaneous written records, databases and producing reports
- Experience of compiling social circumstance reports for the purposes of Mental Health Tribunals and Managers’ Panels
Desirable
- Experience of supervising other staff members or students.
- Experience of working for other statutory organisations, i.e. local authority, probation
- Experience of working within a secure setting, i.e. prison, young offenders institute, secure unit
Knowledge (Essential)
- Thorough knowledge and understanding of current Mental Health Legislation
- Knowledge of relevant legislation with regard to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults
- Knowledge of the Care Programme Approach
- Awareness of current Social Work Standards
Desirable
- Knowledge of Criminal Justice Legislation.
- Knowledge of the Wells Road Centre and its purpose
Skills (Essential)
- Ability to work independently and prioritise own workload
- Good communication, negotiation and liaison skills (both oral and written).
- Ability to function effectively within a multi-professional team and develop cohesive working relationships
- Ability to maintain clear professional boundaries when working with a challenging patient group
- Skilled in assessment and care planning
- Skilled in risk assessment and risk management
Benefits
Certificate of Sponsorship
- Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications
Required Documents
- CV/Resume
- Cover Letter
Application Process
Interested and qualified candidates should kindly CLICK HERE to learn more and apply
Application Deadline
January 7, 2025