Consultant Clinical Social Worker
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.co
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Consultant Clinical Social Worker to join HPFT's Community CYPMHS Team and for a 12 month maternity cover. HPFT is at the forefront of providing integrated health and social care. The Trust is one of only a handful of mental health trusts in the country to receive a CQC rating of 'OUTSTANDING'.
CYPMHS Community teams are welcoming, supportive multi-disciplinary teams which are committed to providing innovative and high quality care. This is a county wide service with a bases across Herts providing services to children and young people experiencing severe and enduring mental health issues.You will work alongside other clinical social workers, nurses, systemic family therapists, clinical psychologists, child psychotherapists, psychiatrists and operational staff and with our partner agencies across Social Care and Education. You will have HCPC registration.
As a service we offer various models of evidence-based therapeutic intervention and work alongside our other CYPMHS services including our Eating Disorders Team, Crisis Assessment and Treatment Team, DBT team, Forensic Adolescent Practitioner service, Adolescent inpatient unit, Home Treatment Team and our CYPMHS Targeted team.
Main duties of the job
You will be expected to offer mental health assessments and interventions to young people and their families and carers with an ability to work with a high level of complexity and risk. You will be expected to work closely with a range of colleagues in social care, schools and other partners and to support other clinicians in your team.The teams work within the context of iThrive, CAPA and CYP-IAPT.
The role may involve you to be invited to join the the senior leadership team meetings where your expertise will help support the decision making of complex cases in the team. You will also be expected to provide supervision to clinicians in the team.You would be required to support colleagues and teams in shaping and developing our services going forwards and for ensuring adherence to protocols, policies and KPI's.
As a consultant social worker you will support the team functioning as well as have a caseload to manage. Within the team you will support the team in facilitating safeguarding consultations and discussions spaces.
The successful candidate will be supported to develop and build on existing skills and knowledge and will have access to a range of training opportunities to fit with both the needs of the service and personal interests.
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 4500 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
The post-holder will provide a variety of clinical/professional supervision to trainees on placement and multi-disciplinary colleagues for purposes of training and continuing professional development.
The post holder will be supported to develop personally and professionally and there are opportunities for service development.
HPFT CAMHS service is leading in transforming care for young people and their families and has a CAMHS Home Treatment Team, a CAMHS DBT Service, and a dedicated CAMHS Section 136 Suite. We also host our own Tier 4 Inpatient Unit for young people, Forest House Adolescent Unit, which has worked to reduce inpatient admissions and improve community care for young people in crisis.
If you would like to visit the team to find out more please do contact us to arrange this.
Please refer to the job description and person specification documents attached for full details regarding the post.
Person specification
Knowledge, Training and Experience
Essential criteria- RMN/RN (MH) / Social Work Qualification
- BSc in Mental Health Practice or equivalent or substantial Post qualifying experience in Liaison Psychiatry
- Mentoring and assessing students qualification
- 5 years and/or more post qualification
- Cert or Dip in Management Relevant skills-based training MSc or equivalent
- Experience of working within a CAMHS setting assessing or supporting young people experiencing a mental health crisis
Areas Of Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria- Significant and relevant experience of working with a therapeutic model in assessing or supporting young people experiencing a mental health crisis
- Significant experience of community-focused care
- Multi-professional working/case management
- Experience of carrying out autonomous acute Mental health assessment
- The ability to lead a multi-professional team and provide on-going operational, clinical and professional supervision
- Complex knowledge of legislation and policy regarding the provision of Mental Health care/services and other relevant legislation
- Knowledge of Bio-Psycho-social models of care
- Knowledge of physical health contributions to Mental Health issues, difficulties and assessment
- Previous involvement in service development and knowledge of Change Management
- Experience of Budget and resource management
- Experience of operational policy development
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
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Visa, Immigration and Sponsorship
As a Trust we will offer sponsorship to roles which require professional registration, unfortunately, if you apply for a role that is outside of that your application will not be considered for the role. If you hold a different visa type, you must have a minimum of 2 years on your current visa to be considered for a role.