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B7 Senior Social Worker
| Posting date: | 01 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | £54,320.00 to £60,981.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £54320.00 - £60981.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 07 August 2025 |
| Location: | Lewisham, SE8 4AT |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9334-25-0756 |
Summary
To work in partnership with service users, families and carers to meet social care needs that arise in relation to a range of mental disorders and often highly complex social situations. To work together with the Social Work lead and the directorate Safeguarding lead to provide an effective social work service for service users, their families and carers by ensuring access to appropriate resources from local authorities and a range of external agencies on a national level. To make referrals where appropriate and to provide and access advocacy, information and guidance for service users, carers and agencies To work as a member of the multi-disciplinary community team exercising social work professional responsibility for providing highly specialist assessments and follow-up for service users referred with complex problems, which includes assessment of risk in terms of self-harm, self-neglect, vulnerability, harm to others, domestic abuse and safeguarding children and adults. To supervise and / or Co-work complex cases where social care needs are identified as high priority including completion. This may include completion of complex reports, attending MHA tribunals and completion of agreed core tasks for SLaM, undertaking procedural and administrative duties related to the social work function. To coordinate care for service users by undertaking assessments and plans for aftercare informed by specialist knowledge of the Mental Health Act 1983, Mental Capacity Act 2005 and the Care Act 2014, Children Act 1989 and Children Act 2004, in accordance with policy guidance and procedures. To engage service users and their families providing direct work as appropriate to assist recovery. To contribute to community referral screening and social care pathways gathering information about service users, carers, family members and professionals in order to undertake assessment of social care needs and risk. To work as part of the community multi-disciplinary team, attending zoning meetings (when required), CPA and planning meetings as appropriate and to contribute to the delivery of highly specialist evidence-based mental health assessment, care planning, treatment and review for service users. To contribute to complex risk assessment and ongoing risk management and safety planning in the community. To contribute to safe discharge planning and arrangements in accordance with child safeguarding, mental health legislation, policy and procedures. To provide social work consultation, training and advice to the community services as needed, with a focus on particular aspects of the Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act, adult mental health, adult safeguarding and compliance with NICE guidelines. To provide practice education for social work placements, where candidate is compliant with Practice Educator Professional Standards. (PEPS 1&2) To implement adult safeguarding procedures in accordance with inter-agency and trust Procedures for Safeguarding Adults. To work closely and effectively with a variety of other professional disciplines and external statutory and independent agencies to meet the complex needs of users and their carers within the hospital and or community setting. To be aware of the needs of service users and their families from a wide range of racial, cultural, sexual, religious and social backgrounds. To apply social work ethical principles and values and to use critical reflection and analysis to respect diversity and to guide professional practice in sensitive and innovative ways. To promote equality, diversity, and inclusion, maintaining an awareness of the equality and diversity policy and working to create and maintain a safe, supportive and welcoming environment where all people are treated with dignity and their identity and culture are valued and respected To attend professional social work supervision with the Social Work lead and/or Safeguarding lead to promote continuous professional development. To provide professional supervision and / or managerial supervision for team members as required. To undertake the statutory duties of the AMHP on a rota basis as a member of the Lewisham AMHP service (if qualified AMHP preferred) To produce and write complex reports, attend MHA tribunals and complete agreed core tasks for SLaM, undertaking procedural and administrative duties related to the social work function To ensure information is recorded consistently, accurately and meets statutory timescales. To ensure service user confidentiality is maintained and information is shared with the service user, carer and other agencies in accordance Trust data protection requirements. To represent N2C when required in court, at case conferences, Tribunals, CPA, planning and review meetings as required. To assist in appropriate service developments, audits and research as deemed appropriate and in consultation with the community team leaders. To carry out the duties and responsibilities of the post, in accordance with local authority and Trust Health and Safety Policy and relevant Health and Safety legislation.