Senior Social Care Practitioner
| Posting date: | 22 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 21 August 2025 |
| Location: | Banbury |
| Company: | inploi |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 75718655 |
Summary
Are you an experienced, qualified Social Worker seeking the next step?
We are currently seeking a Senior Social Care Practitioner. This is an excellent opportunity to progress your social work career, staying in frontline practice whilst developing management and leadership experience, and leading change within your organisation. You will undertake the role of a senior social worker and be responsible for ensuring statutory social care assessments and interventions are of a high quality. Providing practice learning opportunities of outstanding quality and to ensure social work trainees, newly qualified and qualified social work colleagues develop high quality social work practice.
You will ensure that the social perspective of mental health is front and centre of team's practice and you will promote this model within the integrated team .
Main duties of the jobThe focus of this post is to work directly within the North and West AMHT to support, challenge and critically review the care processes which are connected to the funded Social Care packages. The post holder will be a champion for funded social care and all the associated process and practice based issues.
You will be expected to:
- Develop and oversee a programme of robust assessment and review for service users under the care of adult mental health services in receipt of social care services ensuring assessed needs are met in the most appropriate way.
- Maintain an overview of the use of all social care supported accommodation within Oxfordshire
- Maintain an overview of community support provision within Oxfordshire both within specialist mental health provision and within the wider community.
- Be responsible for ensuring the highest standards of social work practice and the efficient and effective use of resources
- Ensure that the needs of service users are met in accordance with the appropriate legal frameworks, providing advice and assistance to other teams where appropriate.
- Provide professional social work supervision to the social work team including ensuring professional development of colleagues. To ensure effective and robust line management.
Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application please read the “candidate guide to making an application” and ensure your supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses any essential criteria.
As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and Northeast Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible. Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”
Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”
We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Competitive pension scheme
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists apply)
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.
The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.
Person specification Experience Essential criteria- Qualified social worker with more than two years experience
- Evidence of providing professional supervision
- Understanding of the opportunities and challenges of working in a MDT
- AMHP or BIA assessor
- Excellent knowledge of the Care Act, Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act and associated statutory guidance
- Understanding of the rights of people who use our services and how to ensure those rights are protected
- Excellent knowledge of safeguarding legislation pertaining to adults and children
- Understanding of models of mental health with a focus on the social perspective and ability to articulate this to the MDT and other agencies
- Understanding of Court of Protection processes and procedures
- Knowledge of No Recourse to Public Funds
- Ability to demonstrate and confidently assert the importance of person centred rights based practice
- Ability to assert the social perspective of mental health to the AMHT and wider systems
- To use social work skills to influence and negotiate better outcomes for people using mental health services
Senior social worker (PDF, 424.4KB)
Guidance Notes for Candidates Applying for a job at OHFT (PDF, 424.6KB)
Recruiter Contact DetailsName: Shabnam Akhter
Title: Social work manager
Email: shabnam.akhter@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk
Telephone: 07884 996920