Senior Social Worker Practitioner
| Posting date: | 29 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Negotiable |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 September 2025 |
| Location: | St Albans, AL3 5TL |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9367-25-0738 |
Summary
Job Summary:All Senior Social Workers must be registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).Senior Social Workers will promote, lead and act in accordance with the principles of personalisation, ensuring that they are working to promote wellbeing, and enabling individuals rights to choice and control. In doing so they will carry out assessments of need, plan and deliver services and review outcomes with the individual, their personal support networks and support providers.Senior Social Worker will ensure that practice within their teams is responsive, inclusive and community based with a clear focus on outcomes. They will bring their professional expertise to their work with complex cases and contribute their perspectives to the multi-disciplinary team.As a Senior Social Worker you will act as a champion and leader of social care within a locality/quadrant. You will be expected to give robust, consistent expert social care practice advice in partnership with other specialist senior social care colleagues. You will reinforce the need to deliver high quality, cost effective social care services to service users and their carers focused on the principles of choice, control and independence, as well as ensuring their safety. You will have a small caseload of the most complex cases and, as an AMHP, you will provide advice, support and supervision to other AMHPs.Partnership working is a key component of this post both within and outside the Trust and you will need to be innovative in ensuring that there is a range of appropriate services locally to support individual recovery journeys.You will be expected to work in partnership with service users and carers so that they can be empowered, and services can be improved as a result of feedback of their experiences. For a more detailed description, please see attached JD and PS.