Senior Social Worker: Sponsorship Available

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust

Job Summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Specialist Palliative Care Service Family Support Team as a Band 6 Experienced Social Worker for a 2-year fixed term contract.

The Family Support Team is a small team of social workers who support adults who are under the care of the Salisbury Specialist Palliative Care Service and their families. The Team also provides bereavement support and is responsible for supervision of a team of experienced bereavement support volunteers. The social workers work with children both within family support and bereavement support.

The Team works closely with the multi professional colleagues within the Specialist Palliative Care Service. The Service consists of the Hospice Inpatient Unit, Community Palliative Care Team, Hospital Palliative Care Team, Hospice@Home, Therapies, Complementary Therapies and Peter Gillam Support Centre.

The catchment area of the Service is a geography covering South Wiltshire, along with parts of Hampshire and Dorset. Most of the Family Support Team’s work is carried out in the community but the office base is in the Salisbury Hospice building, which is on the site of Salisbury District Hospital.

This post will suit someone who enjoys working as part of a multi professional team but who is confident managing the priorities within their own workload and who has effective interpersonal communication skills and the flexibility to adapt to different presenting situations and needs.

Main duties of the job

As a Senior Social Worker, you will provide psychosocial palliative care for our patients and their families/carers. You will contribute to the holistic assessment of our patients by working collaboratively with the multi professional colleagues within the Service. You will support individuals living with terminal illness and those dealing with impending death, loss and grief. Some of this work involves supporting groups. The work will take place in a variety of settings, whether in people’s own homes, schools or the Hospice building. You will also be involved in the supervision and support of volunteers, as well as delivering training in education programmes.

About us

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we’re driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff. We are an acute Trust, rated “Good” by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff. We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme. Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything. With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible.

Person Specification

Essential

  • Registered Social Worker with Social Work England
  • Experience of direct work with adults or children with Life Limiting illness or bereavement
  • Demonstrable experience of working effectively within multi professional teams
  • Demonstrable experience of working in practice in direct work with children or adults
  • Has a driving licence and independent transport for community work
  • Ability to manage caseload and competing demands
  • Experience of computer based recording and filing and GDPR
  • Experience of developing training resources and delivering training
  • Has supervised professional colleagues or volunteers
  • Knowledge and application of relevant legislation
  • Ability to describe and apply psychosocial theories relating to human lifespan and bereavement
  • Demonstrable communication and negotiation skills

Desirable

  • Advanced Communication Skills or Counselling certificate
  • PEPS or experience as a supervisor
  • Experience of group work facilitation
  • Experience of working with additional communication or cognitive support needs
  • Knowledge of local NHS and local authority community care provision
  • Knowledge of welfare benefits

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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: 30 October 2024

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