Social Worker Mental Health Practitioner | Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 17 May 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £35,392 - £42,618 per annum (pro rata for part time) |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 June 2024 |
| Location: | Nottingham, NG6 9DR |
| Company: | Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6322714/186-372-24-MH-A |
Summary
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.
This post is eligible for a Golden Hello payment of £2,750 for new starters who are external to the Trust. This is payable in 3 instalments over a 2 year period. This payment is only eligible to new starters who do not already hold a contract of employment with the Trust. This post also includes paid enhancements for unsocial hours working during night, weekends and bank holidays.
To provide a defined level of assessment and access to Social Work interventions for a diverse patient group and their families under the Care Programme Approach, who present with significant mental health problems/disorders
To provide realistic, timely and occasionally intensive Social Work interventions to patients within a community setting.
To demonstrate active clinical and managerial leadership skills within the team, providing education and supervision to junior staff members and other professionals
Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.
As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire. We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.
Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.
We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network. Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions. We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.
If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you!
#TeamNottsHC
To provide a defined level of assessment and access to Social Work interventions for a diverse
patient group and their families under the Care Programme Approach, who present with significant
mental health problems/disorders
To provide realistic, timely and occasionally intensive Social Work interventions to patients within a
community setting.
To demonstrate active clinical and managerial leadership skills within the team, providing education
and supervision to junior staff members and other professionals
This advert closes on Sunday 2 Jun 2024
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