Job summary
The Pan-London Assessed and Supported Year in Employment (ASYE) programme provides support and assessment to NQSWs in ELFT and partnering NHS Trusts. We require an experienced Social Worker and Practice Educator to join our social work training and development hub and provide ASYE assessment and supervision to NQSWs in Luton and Bedfordshire.
Reporting to the Social Work Learning and Development Lead the post holder will work across all Luton and Bedfordshire to support NQSW's in their ASYE. This will include undertaking the role of ASYE assessor for several NQSW's and facilitating reflective practice groups.
The post holder will be required to support NQSW's in all the diverse teams in the trust including CAMHS, Older Persons teams, Adult Mental Health and Primary Care.
Main duties of the job
1. To provide mentoring, training, consultation, supportive and reflective supervision for Social Workers completing their ASYE in the Trust, in collaboration with their line managers.
2. To carry out the assessment of NQSWs in line with the ASYE national standards and to contribute to the PCF, delivering enhanced practice learning support where required.
3. To assist NQSW's in the development and improvement of their practice by modelling good practice, promoting a service user focused service, providing opportunities for reflective case consultations and to provide practice support to social workers who require particular input with complex work.
4. To provide specialist training for NQSW's in areas of complexity, such as MCA and MHA.
5. To have excellent communication skills; and have excellent skills of negotiation to solve complex problems and to develop training support packages for NQSW's.
6.To ensure compliance with the Trust's Equality and Diversity Policy, supporting the delivery of the Trust's Race Equality Scheme and the Trust's duty to positively promote race equality, ensuring services are responsive to the needs of people with protected characteristics.
About us
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Job description
Job responsibilities
ASYE Assessor- band 6.doc
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Job description
Job responsibilities
ASYE Assessor- band 6.doc
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Person Specification
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Understand and promote a range of social work theories and methods
- Comprehensive understanding of the social determinants of mental illness and interventions to support recovery.
- Ability to assess manage complex and high risk situations effectively
- Assertiveness and engagement with other professionals, able to make reasoned arguments and represent own professional views and perspectives.
- Decision-making and problem solving, able to adopt creative and flexible approaches to meet the needs of learners.
- Excellent organisational skills - able to prioritise own work, use initiative, work autonomously, manage own time and meet tight deadlines
- Highly complex communication skills, with the ability to provide excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills; excellent skills of conflict resolution, negotiation and facilitation
- Ability to build relationships and negotiate satisfactory outcomes with internal and external Stakeholders
- Ability to review and analyse highly complex data and recommend a course of action and objectives and motivate staff to achieve them
- European Computer Driving License (ECDL), computer literacy and mobility to work across multiples settings across the Trust
- Confident classroom management skills including dealing with differences in pace and ability
- Ability to demonstrate excellent problem solving skills
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential
- Registered Social Worker educated to degree level or equivalent.
- Post qualifying module in Practice Education/ enabling others (or equivalent)
- Evidence of post registration continuing professional development, qualifications, or equivalent experience
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Post qualifying experience in adult mental health settings, having regularly undertaken complex assessments of service users and their carers
- Substantial experience of attending funding panel and care commissioning of complex cases
- Experience of Practice Education/ mentoring, coaching staff, students and enabling learning
- Experience of identifying and supporting learners who required additional support using a wide range of training methods and developing bespoke packages of support as required
- Knowledge of e-learning packages and their use in learning and development
- Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft packages including Word and Power Point with the ability to create professional training material
- Previous experience of organisational change
- Previous experience of service development, quality improvement and of bringing innovation and new ideas to practice
- Experience of providing reflective supervision and/or professional supervision.
Desirable
Person Specification
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Understand and promote a range of social work theories and methods
- Comprehensive understanding of the social determinants of mental illness and interventions to support recovery.
- Ability to assess manage complex and high risk situations effectively
- Assertiveness and engagement with other professionals, able to make reasoned arguments and represent own professional views and perspectives.
- Decision-making and problem solving, able to adopt creative and flexible approaches to meet the needs of learners.
- Excellent organisational skills - able to prioritise own work, use initiative, work autonomously, manage own time and meet tight deadlines
- Highly complex communication skills, with the ability to provide excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills; excellent skills of conflict resolution, negotiation and facilitation
- Ability to build relationships and negotiate satisfactory outcomes with internal and external Stakeholders
- Ability to review and analyse highly complex data and recommend a course of action and objectives and motivate staff to achieve them
- European Computer Driving License (ECDL), computer literacy and mobility to work across multiples settings across the Trust
- Confident classroom management skills including dealing with differences in pace and ability
- Ability to demonstrate excellent problem solving skills
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential
- Registered Social Worker educated to degree level or equivalent.
- Post qualifying module in Practice Education/ enabling others (or equivalent)
- Evidence of post registration continuing professional development, qualifications, or equivalent experience
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Post qualifying experience in adult mental health settings, having regularly undertaken complex assessments of service users and their carers
- Substantial experience of attending funding panel and care commissioning of complex cases
- Experience of Practice Education/ mentoring, coaching staff, students and enabling learning
- Experience of identifying and supporting learners who required additional support using a wide range of training methods and developing bespoke packages of support as required
- Knowledge of e-learning packages and their use in learning and development
- Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft packages including Word and Power Point with the ability to create professional training material
- Previous experience of organisational change
- Previous experience of service development, quality improvement and of bringing innovation and new ideas to practice
- Experience of providing reflective supervision and/or professional supervision.
Desirable
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
