Job summary
Are you looking for a role which will value your experience to deliver an outstanding service to clients? If so, join us!
Adult Social Care currently have a Social Worker vacancy to join our Mental Health Hospital Discharge Countywide team, on a fixed term contract for 12-months. You will work with working age adults (18-70) and older adults (70+) and will be supported by a team that cares for you, just as much as it cares for our community.
Experience we are looking for:
- A Social Worker registered with Social Work England, please include your registration number on your application. Who has completed their assessed & supported year in employment (ASYE).
- Build positive relationships with clients, family members and professionals.
- Self-motivated.
- Able to meet travel requirements of the post.
- Show a commitment to training and personal development.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for a Social Worker to support effective and timely hospital discharges. You will work across East Sussex covering all acute hospitals for people who have been admitted to hospital to seek treatment for their mental health. This is a new enterprise, you will work as part of a remote partnership team with Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust (SPFT) and the voluntary sector together with the Adult to identify safe, creative discharges, placing the Adult at the centre.
You will be collaborating closely with other stakeholders, working together to achieve the utmost discharge plans.
To apply click on supporting link 'Apply for this
vacancy via ESCC website. Upload your CV explaining how you meet the job
specification criteria. This job advert might close earlier then the stipulated
closing date if a large volume of applicants is received.
Interviews will take place via Microsoft Teams unless you
request an in-person interview. If you are unavailable to attend the allocated
interview date/time, let us know and we may be able to schedule an alternative
date/time for you.
About us
Hybrid working arrangements are applicable to the role, this includes elements of office-based working, client visits and working from home. You will need to demonstrate you can meet the travel requirements of the role.
There are many rewards working for East Sussex County Council, some of these include:
- Generous pension scheme
- Hybrid working
- Access to training
- Lease car scheme (subject to qualifying criteria)
- Access to our extensive wellbeing and wellness training
- Annual registration fee with Social Worker England will be reimbursed.
Job description
Job responsibilities
1. Undertake
a range of tasks which could include investigation of adult safeguarding
issues, carrying out assessments of need, analysis and planning, assessing and
managing risk, commissioning support and reviewing.
2. Identify
and appropriately report children and adult safeguarding concerns, liaising
with key agencies to gather information and acting as Investigating Officer as
delegated.
3. Work
with a range of legal interventions and departmental policies and procedures to
support outcome-based planning for adults.
4. Work
directly with adults in need, carers, families and their communities to support
people to make informed decisions and choices, empowering them to express needs
and participate in the decision-making process.
5. Work
with partner agencies and adults in need and their carers and families to
enable them to build networks of community support and maintain their
independence for as long as possible.
6. Maintain
good case recording and present reports to panels and in court as appropriate.
7. Contribute
to the learning of social work students, newly qualified social workers and
other team members, for example through group supervisions and mentoring.
8. Evidence
ongoing commitment to continuous professional development and undertake
relevant training in line with the Professional Capability Framework.
Mental
Health addendum
In
addition to the tasks outlined above, Social Workers working in Mental Health
Services will also be required to do the following:
9. To
train as an Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) two years after
successful completion of the formal ASYE programme.
10. To act
as an AMHP and contribute to AMHP rotas as required. This may involve
continuing to work after 5pm on duty days.
11. To
complete relevant training in order to provide practice placements for AMHP
students in training.
Job description
Job responsibilities
1. Undertake
a range of tasks which could include investigation of adult safeguarding
issues, carrying out assessments of need, analysis and planning, assessing and
managing risk, commissioning support and reviewing.
2. Identify
and appropriately report children and adult safeguarding concerns, liaising
with key agencies to gather information and acting as Investigating Officer as
delegated.
3. Work
with a range of legal interventions and departmental policies and procedures to
support outcome-based planning for adults.
4. Work
directly with adults in need, carers, families and their communities to support
people to make informed decisions and choices, empowering them to express needs
and participate in the decision-making process.
5. Work
with partner agencies and adults in need and their carers and families to
enable them to build networks of community support and maintain their
independence for as long as possible.
6. Maintain
good case recording and present reports to panels and in court as appropriate.
7. Contribute
to the learning of social work students, newly qualified social workers and
other team members, for example through group supervisions and mentoring.
8. Evidence
ongoing commitment to continuous professional development and undertake
relevant training in line with the Professional Capability Framework.
Mental
Health addendum
In
addition to the tasks outlined above, Social Workers working in Mental Health
Services will also be required to do the following:
9. To
train as an Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) two years after
successful completion of the formal ASYE programme.
10. To act
as an AMHP and contribute to AMHP rotas as required. This may involve
continuing to work after 5pm on duty days.
11. To
complete relevant training in order to provide practice placements for AMHP
students in training.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Social work qualifications and registered with the professional regulatory body
- Successfully completed Assessed and Supported Year in employment, or the equivalent if prior to 2012, (NQSW year and academic module) or equivalent.
Desirable
- Academic /post graduate learning relevant to the post
- Level 1 Practice Educator Professional Standards (Enabling Learning or equivalent)
Experience
Essential
- Engage effectively using creativity, compassion and authority to overcome resistance, build relationships, and communicate while maintaining professional boundaries with children, families and carers in complex, variable and emotionally challenging situations. to facilitate access to opportunities that may enhance their economic wellbeing.
- Ability to promote, develop and establish effective, collaborative partnerships and networks to promote appropriate information sharing, and utilise the expertise of external agency professionals, service users and carers.
- Able to manage workload independently, applying critical reflection and analysis to maintain, develop and apply a range of effective judgements, and assessments, utilising a wide range of evidence and hypotheses to inform decision making, assessment and timely intervention to progress complex cases and safeguarding interventions
- Able to demonstrate accountability and effective judgement when anticipating, identifying, assessing and managing risk, seeking support and solutions where appropriate
- Able to articulate a positive social work identity and application of power and authority
- Apply the principles of social justice, social inclusion and equality decision making in all casework, challenging issues of discrimination and oppression and demonstrating the confident application of ethical reasoning to professional practice.
- Able to demonstrate knowledge of, and competence against the 9 domains of the Professional Capability Framework at social work level
- Demonstrate knowledge of appropriate legal and policy frameworks and an awareness of current case law, that informs and mandates social work practice
- Understand forms of harm and their impact on people, and the implications for practice, drawing on concepts of attachment, loss, resilience, vulnerability, risk and resistance
- Awareness of changing contexts at local, national and organisational level and their implications for practice
- Experience of completing needs assessments upon which effective plans are based
- Able to make use of research to inform practice.
- Demonstrate personal and professional resilience
- Able to demonstrate awareness of own professional limitations, personal values and knowledge gaps, to critically reflect on the influence and impact on professional practice and engage in regular supervision to improve practice and career development
- Work positively with others and contribute to team working and a learning environment for self, team and colleagues
- Able to meet the travelling requirements of the post
Desirable
- Demonstrate an understanding of social welfare policy
- Demonstrate understanding of politico-economic environment and its influence on statutory social work delivery.
- Experience of working within a legal framework
- Experience of implementing care plans and actively working adult protection plans
- Experience of contributing to the learning of student social workers
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Social work qualifications and registered with the professional regulatory body
- Successfully completed Assessed and Supported Year in employment, or the equivalent if prior to 2012, (NQSW year and academic module) or equivalent.
Desirable
- Academic /post graduate learning relevant to the post
- Level 1 Practice Educator Professional Standards (Enabling Learning or equivalent)
Experience
Essential
- Engage effectively using creativity, compassion and authority to overcome resistance, build relationships, and communicate while maintaining professional boundaries with children, families and carers in complex, variable and emotionally challenging situations. to facilitate access to opportunities that may enhance their economic wellbeing.
- Ability to promote, develop and establish effective, collaborative partnerships and networks to promote appropriate information sharing, and utilise the expertise of external agency professionals, service users and carers.
- Able to manage workload independently, applying critical reflection and analysis to maintain, develop and apply a range of effective judgements, and assessments, utilising a wide range of evidence and hypotheses to inform decision making, assessment and timely intervention to progress complex cases and safeguarding interventions
- Able to demonstrate accountability and effective judgement when anticipating, identifying, assessing and managing risk, seeking support and solutions where appropriate
- Able to articulate a positive social work identity and application of power and authority
- Apply the principles of social justice, social inclusion and equality decision making in all casework, challenging issues of discrimination and oppression and demonstrating the confident application of ethical reasoning to professional practice.
- Able to demonstrate knowledge of, and competence against the 9 domains of the Professional Capability Framework at social work level
- Demonstrate knowledge of appropriate legal and policy frameworks and an awareness of current case law, that informs and mandates social work practice
- Understand forms of harm and their impact on people, and the implications for practice, drawing on concepts of attachment, loss, resilience, vulnerability, risk and resistance
- Awareness of changing contexts at local, national and organisational level and their implications for practice
- Experience of completing needs assessments upon which effective plans are based
- Able to make use of research to inform practice.
- Demonstrate personal and professional resilience
- Able to demonstrate awareness of own professional limitations, personal values and knowledge gaps, to critically reflect on the influence and impact on professional practice and engage in regular supervision to improve practice and career development
- Work positively with others and contribute to team working and a learning environment for self, team and colleagues
- Able to meet the travelling requirements of the post
Desirable
- Demonstrate an understanding of social welfare policy
- Demonstrate understanding of politico-economic environment and its influence on statutory social work delivery.
- Experience of working within a legal framework
- Experience of implementing care plans and actively working adult protection plans
- Experience of contributing to the learning of student social workers
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
