Overview
Join Our Community Team! You may be a newly qualified Social Worker seeking your first position in mental health or a Social Worker with some experience who is looking to enhance their knowledge and skill in community mental health work. We have exciting opportunities to deliver high quality community mental health care in Ware, Hertford and surrounding villages. Our Community Mental Health Social Workers hold a caseload and undertake the role of care coordinator for those with varied complex mental health and social care needs.
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 the Care Quality Commission. We are the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide assessment, care planning, and care coordination, including Care Programme Approach, within a framework of recovery that embraces each individual’s right to choice and control.
- Provide assessment and specific interventions to meet the needs of service users, their carers and families.
- Act as care coordinator for adults of all ages experiencing or recovering from personality, substance abuse and mental health difficulties and their carers.
- Work as a member of a multi‑disciplinary team delivering a high quality social care service.
- Ensure that carers are effectively assessed and supported.
- Maintain a flexible, professional, calm approach, manage own workload, display initiative, and prioritise tasks.
Key Qualifications
- Social Work qualification, newly qualified or experienced.
- Strong belief in recovery for people with severe and enduring mental health problems.
- Understanding of Care Programme Approach, Care Management, and Safeguarding.
- Interest and understanding of the issues people with mental health needs may experience.
- Good communication and teamwork skills.
- Ability to work well within a team, prioritise, manage workload, and display initiative.
Working Hours
Monday – Friday, 9am – 5pm.
Contact Information
Name: Kate DrewJob title: Service Line LeadEmail: kate.drew4@nhs.netTelephone: 01707 364000
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