Social Worker - Community Rehabilitation Team | Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	15 May 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	14 June 2025
Location:	AUL, OL6 7SR
Company:	Pennine Care NHS FT
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	7215043/311-F807-25-A

Summary

The Community Rehabilitation Team is looking to recruit a Social Worker to join our supportive multidisciplinary team. The successful candidate will have significant experience of working with people with chronic relapsing and remitting mental ill health, including experience of working across a number of services including secondary care and mental health inpatient services.

The team supports service users to transition from inpatient rehabilitation facilities to living in the community, supporting people to improve their quality of life and work towards achieving their goals. A further aim of the team is to reduce the length of stay for service users from acute and rehabilitation wards, incorporating least restrictive practice.

The team has an emphasis on the Recovery Model, working with service users using a strengths based and trauma informed approach to maximise their independence and autonomy to improve their quality of life.

You will work with a team of experienced practitioners with a strong biopsychosocial, evidence based interventions. Many of the people we work with have needs related to experiences of oppression, abuse, trauma and/or neurodivergence, therefore a deep understanding of how social determinants impact mental health and wellbeing is key.

The team is a trust wide service covering all five boroughs of Pennine Care and it is essential that you drive to enable you to travel across the Trust footprint.

We are based at Trust HQ in Ashton Under Lyne. Our core hours are Monday to Friday 9am-5pm.

To be responsible for a caseload of service users under the care of the Community Rehabilitation Team, taking a strengths based approach to supporting them in their recovery journey.

To provide specialist social work interventions to service users and their carers / families, and involve them in all planning, helping to develop social resilience, motivation and daily living skills.

To offer guidance and leadership to the Community Rehabilitation Team regarding social care and social work knowledge, including legal literacy, local authority systems.

Champion the social model of care for services users whilst taking a biopsychosocial approach to meeting service users’ holistic goals.

To be part of a multi-disciplinary team providing strengths based and recovery focused support.

Carry out a range of social work responsibilities within framework of NHS and Community Care Act.

Contribute to risk assessments and the development of management plans, including transitional arrangements between hospital and community settings, using positive risk taking approaches where indicated as appropriate, promoting choice and control.

We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.

Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We’re really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we’re a great place to work.

All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.

If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:
• Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
• Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
• Access to Continued Professional Development
• Involvement in improvement and research activities
• Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
• Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel

Essential
• Social Work Qualification e.g. BA (Hons), MA, MSW, DSW CQSW
• Further short courses and/or experience to post graduate diploma level, e.g. Assessed and Supported Year in Employment (ASYE)
• An ongoing commitment to personal and professional development.
• Ensuring current registration with the Professional Social Work regulatory body at all times.
• Post registration experience of working with service users with complex mental health needs.
• Post registration experience of working in a multi-disciplinary setting.
• Post registration experience of working with care providers in a community setting.
• Experience of developing trauma informed, collaborative risk management plans, promoting service user choice and control including working with issues relating to self neglect, domestic abuse, substance use and risk towards others.
• Able to demonstrate applied knowledge of:
Mental Health Act
Mental disorder
Safeguarding Adults
Child Safeguarding
Code of conduct
• Applied knowledge of social determinants which impact on health and wellbeing of people and communities.
• Knowledge of a range of interventions appropriate to the needs of service users
• Understanding of MHA and governance
• Excellent communication skills with service users, carers, colleagues and other professionals
• Sound analytical skills particularly in risk management
• Able to plan and deliver packages of care
• Excellent IT skills
• Negotiating and motivational skills
• Good organisational skills - an ability to manage time, prioritise
work and meet deadlines
• Able to work as part of a team including multi-disciplinary working with adults, carers and other professionals
• A passion for promoting the rights and entitlements for those who face discrimination as a result of a mental ill health
• Able to perform duties working in a stressful environment and engage sensitively with patients, service users, carers and relatives who have high levels of distress, anxiety and aggression.
• A current driving license with business insurance and access to a car during the working day is essential

Desirable
• Qualification in Family Interventions.
• Best Interest Assessor
• Approved Mental Health Professional
• Post registration In-patient experience working within a Low Secure Service
• Experience of working in a forensic setting.

Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification to give you the best chance of being shortlisted.






This advert closes on Thursday 29 May 2025