Clinical Social Worker Band 5-6 Development Post
Values Based Screener
At Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust we are looking for people to join us who share our values and those of the NHS. Before your application can be considered please take part on our online values questionnaire, which you can find below.When you have finished you will be sent a 'completion code' by email, which will be valid for 6 months and required to submit your application form.
http://hpft.recruitforvalues.com/
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to work as a Clinical Social Worker in our CAMHS East team, delivering a high quality service provision that promotes and improves the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people and their families.
We are seeking an energetic, highly motivated social worker who is willing to develop skills and knowledge in the assessment and treatment of children and young people; to deliver care, advice and support to children and young people with mental health problems.
You must be a SWE registered social worker and possess experience of working directly with service users. You will be responsible for demonstrating excellent clinical outcomes and safe and effective delivery of care to children and young people.
CAMHS East is a caring, supportive and hard working team which prides itself on working creatively, innovatively and inclusively. We have a number of ongoing projects including working in partnership with young people to re design our clinic room spaces, working to better meet the needs of young people with neurodiversity who are accessing our service, and the development of the intervention offer for families of our young people.
We welcome all new staff to the team with a robust induction process to equip them for the work they will take forwards and promote leadership at all levels within the team.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for assessing, formulating and providing treatment plans for children, adolescents and their families, in collaboration with other members of the multi-disciplinary team.
As a newly qualified social worker the post holder will be required to develop the knowledge and skills over a period of time via the Assessed and Supported Year in Employment scheme (ASYE) to demonstrate their ability to deliver the high standards of care required of a Clinical Social Worker.
The post holder will be required to prioritise attendance at all training, attend supervision and apply reflective practice continuously to enable learning needs to be identified and met.
The post holder will provide advice, guidance and consultation for professionals from other agencies and other team members, and will be prepared to develop skills in teaching, training and supervision, through the supervision of social work students.
Working for our organisation
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings.We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.
The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Our Trust values are:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!
Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Provide consultation, advice and training to professionals working within the community and within the multi-disciplinary team.
Contribute to the development of CAMHS through clinic and professional meetings.
Prepare and present reports for a variety of meetings.
Contribute towards training activities within Social Services, Health and Voluntary sector agencies in matters relating to Child, Adolescent and Family Mental Health.
To maintain knowledge of available resources, and of the roles of other agencies and to liaise on behalf of service users.
To maintain up to date knowledge of relevant legislation safeguarding policies and procedures.
To maintain up to date clinical and theoretical knowledge pertaining to child and adolescent mental health.
To ensure that accurate computer records of all work undertaken are kept up to date.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Educated to degree level
- An appropriate professional Social Work qualification (eg: Dip S.W.)
- Registered with the governing body SWE
- Relevant post-qualifying training for social workers.
- Further training/qualification in relevant area of practice. E.g. Family Therapy, Child Psychotherapy; Group Therapy; Counselling; Play Therapy
Experience
Essential criteria- Experience of working in a social care environment.
- Experience of partnership working with service users and carers, demonstrating dignity and respect
- Knowledge of social care needs of children, adolescents and families.
- Knowledge of Safeguarding Children policy, practice and procedures
- Ability to demonstrate competence in Social Work practice and to work within the value base as outlined by the governing body Code of Practice.
- Knowledge of Child & Adolescent development or willingness to learn as part of the progression post.
- Knowledge of Child and Adolescent and/or Adult mental health or willingness to learn as part of the progression post
- Knowledge of Psycho-social approaches and/or methods or willingness to learn as part of the progression post
- Knowledge of current legislation and guidance relevant to the post
About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is rated by the Care Quality Commission as an Outstanding provider of mental health and learning disability services. In 2021, we won the prestigious Health Service Journal award for Mental Health Trust of the Year, with the judges saying they were “blown away” by our people’s achievements and that everything they saw “sings and hums”.This year, our staff rated us the 4^th best mental health and learning disability trust to work for out of all 52 trusts in the country. Our staff tell us that they are proud to be part of the HPFT team, proud of the standard of care we provide and proud that service users are our top priority.
Our people tell us they feel supported though a great development, wellbeing and work-life balance offer and a highly compassionate, values-driven culture. We are equally proud of our staff, who live our values of being welcoming, kind, positive, respectful and professional so that together we provide great care and great outcomes for our service users and carers.
If you would like to join a team to be proud of and you share our values and passion for great care and outcomes for our service users and carers, we would love to hear from you.
Additional Information
HPFT is committed to being an equal opportunities employer and in order to reflect the diversity of its population, positively encourages applications from all areas of the community. We aim to be a representative organisation with regards to age, disability, ethnicity, gender, beliefs and sexual orientation and are fully committed to equality, diversity and human rights and encourage applications from all sections of the community including users of mental health services.
The Trust is committed to helping staff balance work and home life and welcomes applications from candidates wishing to work part-time or under flexible working arrangements.
Infection Control
All our staff will need to comply with current Infection Prevention and Control measures which could include wearing a mask on all our Trust sites and in all roles