Social Worker with Recruitment Incentive (Cheshunt Area)
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
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Job summary
An exciting opportunity for the post of B5 Social Worker has become available within Adult Mental Health Services in the Broxbourne/Cheshunt area. If you want to work in a challenging area that will set you up to face anything in your career then this is the team for you.
HPFT have been rated as outstanding by the care quality commission & the Holly Lodge team are ACOMHS accredited (a national kite mark of excellence in community mental health care).
We can offer you a competitive salary, staff benefits package and excellent career development and training that comes from working for Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust . As a partnership Trust directly delivering social care, you will be supported in your ASYE journey and onward career development.
Main duties of the job
Working alongside other MDT members & senior social workers, you will have the opportunity to develop skills in care coordination, social care commissioning, safeguarding, mental health assessment & treatment & much more.
We manage people with severe & enduring mental health problems in the community as part of one of the largest mental health & learning disability providers in the UK.
In this post you will be responsible for the delivery of care to an allocated caseload of clients living in the Community experiencing, or recovering from, mental health difficulties.
You will provide direct support and advice to Service Users (Adults of all ages) and Carers, within the recovery framework, embracing the individual right to choice and control. You will ensure that appropriate health and social care services are commissioned as required. You will also assess, identify and evaluate needs through comprehensive assessments, reviews, care planning in conjunction with other professionals.
You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary Team, working in partnership with a range of stakeholders inside and outside of the Trust.
About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from theCare Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.
The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Our Trust values are:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!
Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?
Then please read on..."
Date posted
23 May 2023
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 5
Salary
£28,407 to £34,581 a year PA pro rata 5% of basic salary, min payment £1136 max of £1915
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
367-EAN-7137
Job locations
Holly Lodge, 45 Church Lane, Cheshunt, EN8 0DR
45 Church Lane
Cheshunt
EN8 0DR
Employer details
Employer name
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Holly Lodge, 45 Church Lane, Cheshunt, EN8 0DR
45 Church Lane
Cheshunt
EN8 0DR
Employer's website
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