We are looking for 2 social workers to come and join our Local Mental Health Teams (LMHTs). One will be based at LMHT Gedling (1.0 FTE) and the other in at LMHT City East (0.6 FTE).
There is an exciting opportunity to join the growing social work workforce within Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust. Social workers play a crucial part in improving mental health outcomes for individuals, through understanding the social detriments of mental health and using a human rights approach. This requires advanced relationship-based skills focussed on personalisation and strength-based working, to support people to make positive, self-directed change.
The successful candidates will work as a social worker in a multi-disciplinary community mental health team. This involves supporting a caseload of individuals’ who are experiencing social issues which are impacting their mental health by applying social work and psycoeducation interventions and representing the social work and social perspective in the team. Social work training and supervision is provided as well as opportunities to develop additional intervention skills required for working in a community mental health team.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will demonstrate the principles of social work through professional judgement, decision making and actions within a framework of professional accountability. They will promote and lead on the social perspective and trauma-informed social model of mental health and wellbeing within the multidisciplinary team. They post holder will value and take account of the expertise of service users, carers and other professionals.
The post holder will work within a multi-disciplinary team providing social work expertise to improve mental health outcomes for individuals through understanding the social determinants of mental health. This includes completing pieces of work where a patient requires social work input/ social work interventions; and providing care coordination for people experiencing social stressors that are impacting their mental health or social stressors are the predominant issue that requires support.
The post holder will also complete team responsibilities as required.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Social Work qualification to degree level or equivalent.
- Completed the assessed and supported year in employment (ASYE) program or equivalent.ed with Social Work England
- Current registration with Social Work England (SWE).
Desirable
- Completed Practice Education (PEPS 1 or both) or be willing to work towards this qualification
Contractual Requirements
Essential
- A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010
Values and Behaviours
Essential
- All colleagues are expected to demonstrate that they act in line with Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Values: Trust Honesty Respect Compassion Teamwork
- All colleagues are expected to demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and how it applies to their role. The Trust’s expectations are highlighted within our EDI Policy, and associated EDI and Human Rights legislation
Experience
Essential
- Maintain an individual caseload and complete team responsibilities.
- Develop, co-ordinate and delivers personalised health and social needs assessments and care planning; working in collaboration with the individuals, their families/carers and support networks
- Assess and analyse risk/ ongoing risks to ensure personalised risk and safety plans, balancing risk management and safeguarding with choice, self-determination and positive risk-taking underpinned by relevant legislation
- Undertake assessment and planning for safeguarding in complex cases, and help others with safeguarding skills.
- Interpret and use current legislation and guidance to protect and/or advance people’s rights and entitlements.
- Focus on strength/ asset-based working, to support people to make positive self-directed change within their lives and engage with their communities.
- Working in partnership with agencies external to the Trust supporting adults and carers to access services/support in the statutory, independent, and non-statutory sector.
Desirable
- Provide expertise to the multidisciplinary team with regards to adult and children’s safeguarding responsibilities.
- Promote family and carers work.
Knowledge
Essential
- Understand the complex needs and mental health inequalities relevant to this group.
- Maintain and provide expertise with regards to application of legislation including the Care Act, Mental Capacity Act, Equality Act, Human Rights Act, Transforming Care, Mental Health Act and other legislation relevant to the remit of the team.
- Demonstrate a critical knowledge of the range of theories and models for social work intervention with individuals, families, groups and communities.
- Demonstrate a specialised understanding of models and approaches relevant to adult mental health.
Desirable
- Trained in psychological and therapeutic approaches and able to integrate these approaches into the social work role
Skills
Essential
- Demonstrate a high level of communication and interpersonal skills to enable meaningful dialogue and action with individuals with significant mental health issues, families, carers and multi-agency/ professional colleagues.
- Be responsible for spending time co-ordinating activities with other professionals and agencies including multi-disciplinary and agency care coordination and managing risk and care planning as required.
- Demonstrate negotiation and advocacy skills
- Prioritise work and exercise initiative, balancing own caseload alongside team responsibilities.
- Maintain accurate, timely and relevant clinical records demonstrating their analysis and decision-making
- Model anti-discriminatory and anti-racist practice, challenging system impacts.
Desirable
- Provide supervision to colleagues as required and appropriate.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Closing Date: 28 July 2025
