Social Worker (Sponsorship Available) at Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Job Summary

Would you like to join an innovative, dynamic and ambitious team committed to delivering the best possible care for service users?

The Enhanced Rehabilitation Outreach Service (EROS) is looking for a compassionate and enthusiastic Social Worker to join the team.

EROS provides rehabilitation interventions and support to individuals with complex and enduring long-term severe mental illness in the community.

The service provides a dedicated, integrated multi-disciplinary team of professionals who aim to:

• Improve quality of life.

• Promote hope, recovery, and individual resilience.

• Reduce reliance on crisis and inpatient services.

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust welcomes diversity in its workforce and encourages applicants from people of all ages and backgrounds, such as those with lived experience of mental health difficulties.

Job Details

• Employer: Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

• Job Title: Social Worker

• Location: United Kingdom

• Salary: £41,957 to £50,387 a year

• Job Type: Full-time

• Closing Date: 12 November 2026

Main Duties and Responsibilities

All Social Workers must be registered with Social Work England.

As a Social Worker, the successful candidate 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 include:

• Providing assessments, including Connected Lives assessments.

• Care planning and coordination of care from a social perspective for adults accessing the service.

• Delivering recovery-focused care and support to service users and their carers, focused on the principles of choice, control, and independence, while ensuring safety.

• Actively addressing adversity and supporting adults at risk of social exclusion.

• Assisting adults accessing support to deal with a range of adverse circumstances.

• Championing equality and diversity and challenging discrimination in all its forms.

• Holding a caseload that may comprise adults experiencing a wide range of mental health and social care needs.

• Maintaining constant reflection and development of practice.

• Ensuring continuing professional development in line with the standards set out by Social Work England.

About Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust is one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission.

The Trust’s family of over 4,500 members of staff provides health and social care for people with mental ill-health, physical ill-health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk.

These services are delivered within the community and several inpatient settings.

Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with the Trust’s values embedded throughout:

• Welcoming.

• Kind.

• Positive.

• Respectful.

• Professional.

Job Description

Job Responsibilities

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

• Undertaking comprehensive assessments and reviews for people who may present with a high risk, or those with significant interpersonal, social, legal and/or environmental complexities, ensuring people are assessed appropriately against social care eligibility criteria as defined by The Care Act 2014.

• Taking a lead in the promotion of adult safeguarding practice and undertaking safeguarding enquiries, as well as contributing to the provision of care plans that protect both adults and children from abuse.

• Offering direct support to service users and their carers, and to colleagues, through information and advice, to ensure that those who do not meet social care eligibility are appropriately signposted and supported.

• Ensuring that 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 the social care services they receive, if applicable.

• Undertaking regular risk assessments and ensuring that vulnerable people are kept safe.

• Being skilled in partnership working and identifying, developing, and facilitating a wide range of recovery-focused community services, ensuring that colleagues within the locality are also aware of developments and best practice.

• Ensuring the involvement of service users and their carers so that the Trust can learn from their experiences to make improvements to service delivery.

• Ensuring accurate computer records of all work undertaken are kept up to date.

• Providing both management and reflective supervision to newly qualified social workers and unregistered social care staff.

• Undertaking duties as an Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) or being willing to undertake AMHP training.

• Participating in regular supervision and ensuring regular reflection on personal practice as both a social worker and AMHP.

• Undertaking other tasks and duties which form part of the delegated social care responsibilities accepted by the Trust on behalf of Hertfordshire County Council.

• Carrying out any other duties as appropriately identified by the line manager.

Person Specification

Knowledge and Qualifications

Essential

• An appropriate professional social work qualification.

• Education to degree level.

• Registration with Social Work England.

• Training in principles and application of outcomes-focused assessments and personalisation.

• Training and experience in Safeguarding.

Desirable

– Approved Mental Health Professional/Best Interests Assessment Training.

Experience

Essential

• Significant post-qualification experience.

• Knowledge of legislation, theory and policy in relation to relevant care group.

• Experience of undertaking assessments, focused on personalisation, choice and control, and care planning.

• Experience of multidisciplinary working and ability to work collaboratively.

• Experience of work as Approved Mental Health Professional and/or Best Interests Assessor.

• Experience of partnership working with service users and carers, demonstrating dignity and respect.

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.

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 in 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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.

For further information, please see the NHS Careers website.

How to Apply

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