• Job Description

  Req#: C9367-25-0527?language=en&page=712&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  We are looking for a band five social worker to join our adult community mental health service in Bishops Stortford.

  As a member of our multi-disciplinary team, you will provide high-quality social care to adults facing mental health challenges.

  Your main tasks will include assessment, care planning, and coordination, following a recovery framework that prioritizes individual choice and control. Supporting and assessing carers is also a crucial part of your role.

  Main duties of the job

  Join Our Community Team!

  Whether you're a newly qualified Social Worker or have some experience, we have exciting opportunities . We seek enthusiastic, compassionate Social Workers who believe in recovery for people with severe mental health issues.

  As a Community Mental Health Social Worker, you will manage a caseload, coordinate care, provide assessments, and deliver specific interventions for service users, their carers, and families. Flexibility and a positive, professional approach are essential. You should work well in a team, manage your workload, and show initiative.

  An interest in mental health issues, understanding of Care Programme Approach, Care Management, and Safeguarding is essential. We support newly qualified Social Workers through the ASYE program.

  About us

  Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trustare one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from theCare Quality Commission

  Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

  Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

  About us - Hertfordshire NHS Partnership Trust

  Heard. Respected. Included. Together, we help people with mental ill-health, learning disabilities and autism to live life to the fullest. We work throughout Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Norfolk...https://www.hertsnhsgreattogether.co.uk/

  Details

  Date posted

  23 June 2025

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 5

  Salary

  £31,469 to £38,308 a year per annum, pro rata (Inclusive of 5% HCAS)

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working

  Reference number

  367-ACMS-9464

  Job locations

  Oxford House, London Road, Bishops Stortford, CM23 3LA

  London Road

  Bishops Stortford

  CM23 3LA

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  All Social Workers must be registered with Social Work England.

  • To undertake comprehensive assessments and reviews, ensuring people meet Fair Access to Care Services (FACS) eligibility criteria, and are assessed using the self directed support Needs Outcome Assessment (NOA), process.
  • To undertake such reviews as part of an integrated assessment of peoples health and social care needs.
  • To offer direct support and advice to service users and their carers, through information and advice and ensure that those who do not meet FACS eligibility are appropriately signposted and supported.
  • To ensure appropriate health and social care services are commissioned with and on behalf of service users, including the duty to offer direct payments, and that processes are in place for service users to be charged by the local authority for all social care services.
  • To ensure that commissioned services allow choice to service users and carers, and focus on people living in the community with appropriate support and access to universal services.
  • To undertake regular risk assessments and ensure that vulnerable people are kept safe.
  • To undertake assessments of carers needs, including identifying contingency plans, and provision of support if appropriate.
  • To liaise and negotiate with other agencies eg Adult Care Services, Children Schools and Families, Benefit Agency, Housing authorities and providers etc., for joint planning with, or on behalf of, service users.

  Please see attached Job Description & Person Specification before applying for this role.

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  All Social Workers must be registered with Social Work England.

  • To undertake comprehensive assessments and reviews, ensuring people meet Fair Access to Care Services (FACS) eligibility criteria, and are assessed using the self directed support Needs Outcome Assessment (NOA), process.
  • To undertake such reviews as part of an integrated assessment of peoples health and social care needs.
  • To offer direct support and advice to service users and their carers, through information and advice and ensure that those who do not meet FACS eligibility are appropriately signposted and supported.
  • To ensure appropriate health and social care services are commissioned with and on behalf of service users, including the duty to offer direct payments, and that processes are in place for service users to be charged by the local authority for all social care services.
  • To ensure that commissioned services allow choice to service users and carers, and focus on people living in the community with appropriate support and access to universal services.
  • To undertake regular risk assessments and ensure that vulnerable people are kept safe.
  • To undertake assessments of carers needs, including identifying contingency plans, and provision of support if appropriate.
  • To liaise and negotiate with other agencies eg Adult Care Services, Children Schools and Families, Benefit Agency, Housing authorities and providers etc., for joint planning with, or on behalf of, service users.

  Please see attached Job Description & Person Specification before applying for this role.

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • An appropriate professional social work qualification (e.g. DipSW, )
  • Education to degree level
  • Registration with General Social Care Council.
  • Training in principles and application of outcomes focussed assessments and personalisation

  Experience and Knowledge

  Essential

  • 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
  • Knowledge and understanding of personal budgets and direct payments
  • Experience of multidisciplinary working and ability to work collaborative
  • Experience of partnership working with service users and carers, demonstrating dignity and respect

  Skills and Aptitudes

  Essential

  • Ability to analyse service user and carer information.
  • Experience of undertaking small scale audits and surveys.

  Communication and People Skill

  Essential

  • Excellent ability to communication with a wide range of stakeholders including service users and carers, other professional colleagues, members of other organisations and local communities, verbally and in writing
  • Ability to manage highly sensitive information
  • Experience of using electronic recording systems and ability to produce accurate, appropriate and timely reports .

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • An appropriate professional social work qualification (e.g. DipSW, )
  • Education to degree level
  • Registration with General Social Care Council.
  • Training in principles and application of outcomes focussed assessments and personalisation

  Experience and Knowledge

  Essential

  • 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
  • Knowledge and understanding of personal budgets and direct payments
  • Experience of multidisciplinary working and ability to work collaborative
  • Experience of partnership working with service users and carers, demonstrating dignity and respect

  Skills and Aptitudes

  Essential

  • Ability to analyse service user and carer information.
  • Experience of undertaking small scale audits and surveys.

  Communication and People Skill

  Essential

  • Excellent ability to communication with a wide range of stakeholders including service users and carers, other professional colleagues, members of other organisations and local communities, verbally and in writing
  • Ability to manage highly sensitive information
  • Experience of using electronic recording systems and ability to produce accurate, appropriate and timely reports .

  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).

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Additional information

  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).

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  Oxford House, London Road, Bishops Stortford, CM23 3LA

  London Road

  Bishops Stortford

  CM23 3LA

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.hpft.nhs.uk/careers/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  Oxford House, London Road, Bishops Stortford, CM23 3LA

  London Road

  Bishops Stortford

  CM23 3LA

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.hpft.nhs.uk/careers/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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