Social Worker: Sponsorship Available

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Job Summary

This role attracts a Golden Hello payment of £3,500. T’s & C’s apply, new employees only.

All Social Workers must be registered with Social Work England.

The Enhanced Primary Mental Health Service (EPMHS) provide a multidisciplinary service to those with moderate and severe mental health difficulties in primary care. There is a focus on psychological provision for those who do not meet criteria for Adult Community Mental Health Services or the NHS Talking Therapies Teams. Service users present with multiple social stressors and we are looking for a social worker to develop this role and and take the lead working directly with those with more complex difficulties, providing supervision to support staff providing social care to service users and providing advice to the wider MDT on social care matters.

As a Social Worker, you will work as a member of the multi-disciplinary team, providing high quality social care services to adults of all ages experiencing mental ill-health. The core functions of the role will be to provide assessment, care planning and interventions (which may require co-ordination of care) from a social perspective to adults accessing the service. You will delivery recovery-focused care and support to service users and their carers that is focused on the principles of choice, control, and independence, as well as ensuring safety. You will act as a champion of social care and safeguarding in your locality.

 

Main duties of the job

The postholder will assess needs and outcomes and analyse a wide range of information in relation to service users and carers. They will ensure that complex information is analysed, and recommendations made, for which there is professional accountability. They will involve service users and carers to enable us to learn from their experiences. The postholder may be asked to undertake surveys and audits within their locality and contribute to trust wide surveys when required.

The post holder will hold a key role in providing social care assessments and commissioned packages of care, and will ensure that your practice ensures the service is meeting its statutory social care functions as described in the Care Act 2014.

Person Specification

QUALIFICATIONS/EDUCATION/TRAINING

Essential

  • An appropriate professional social work qualification
  • Education to degree level
  • Registration with Social Work England
  • Training in principles and application of outcomes focussed assessments and personalisation
  • Relevant post-qualifying training for social workers
  • Approved Mental Health Professional/Best Interests Assessment Training
  • Training and experience in safeguarding

KNOWLEDGE, TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE

Essential

  • Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience
  • Knowledge of legislation, theory and policy in relation to relevant care group
  • Experience of undertaking assessments, focussed as personalisation, choice and control, and care planning
  • Understanding and experience of personal budgets and direct payments
  • Experience of multidisciplinary working and ability to work collaboratively
  • Experience of partnership working with service users and carers, demonstrating dignity and respect

Desirable

  • Experience of work as Approved Mental Health Professional and/or Best Interests Assessor
  • Experience of working in an integrated health and social care environment

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: 03 August 2025

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