Job Summary:

All social workers must be registered with the General Social Care Council (GSCC).

The post holder will work as a member of the multi-disciplinary Community Team providing a high quality social care service to adults of all ages experiencing or recovering from personality, substance abuse and mental health difficulties and their carers.

The core functions are to provide assessment, care planning and care co- ordination, including care programme approach, within a framework of recovery which embraces each individual's right to choice and control.

Ensuring that carers are effectively assessed and supported is a key component of the social work role.

Main duties of the job

Job Responsibilities:

• To undertake comprehensive assessments and reviews, ensuring people meet Social care outcome eligibility criteria, and are assessed using th
• To undertake such reviews as part of an integrated assessment
• To offer direct support and advice to service users and their carers, through information and advice and ensure that those who do not meet Social care outcome eligibility are appropriately signposted an
• To ensure appropriate health and social care services are commissioned with and on behalf of service users, including the duty to offer direct payment, and that processes are in place for service users to be charged by the local authority for all social care
• To participate in regular supervision

About us

Hertfordshire Partnerships University Foundation Trust

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an exceptional organisation with big ambitions, our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and

specialist learning disability services in the country.

• With a workforce of c. 3,000 and an annual income of c. �200m, the Trust is organised across three Strategic Business Units and provides integrated health and social care services through a large network of community and inpatient settings, serving diverse communities across Hertfordshire, Norfolk, North Essex and Buckinghamshire. As a university trust, HPFT continues to develop strong links with the University of Hertfordshire providing excellent learning and development opportunities, as well as strengthening our clinical research

• Whilst it is a challenging period for the NHS, there has never been a more exciting time to join HPFT following our CQC rating of Outstanding awarded to us in April 2019. We are on our Good to Great journey as we continue to innovate, improve, transform and ultimately deliver the very highest standards of care to the service users and communities that we

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Responsibilities:

• To undertake comprehensive assessments and reviews, ensuring people meet Social care outcome eligibility criteria, and are assessed using th
• To undertake such reviews as part of an integrated assessment
• To offer direct support and advice to service users and their carers, through information and advice and ensure that those who do not meet Social care outcome eligibility are appropriately signposted an
• To ensure appropriate health and social care services are commissioned with and on behalf of service users, including the duty to offer direct payment, and that processes are in place for service users to be charged by the local authority for all social care
• To participate in regular supervision

Person Specification

Experience/Knowledge/Training

Essential

• Experience/Knowledge/Training/Suitability

Employer details

Employer name

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Civic Offices, Borehamwood, Herts, WD6 1WA

Borehamwood

WD6 1WA

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