Senior Social Work Practitioner

**About The Job**

**Salary**: £41,591 to £44,624 per annum plus 18% enhancement
**Working Pattern**: Full time (37 hours per week) with the requirement for rolling rota participation
**Contract Length**:Permanent
**Location**: Bridge House, Worthing
**Interview Date**:TBC (Interviews may take place via MS Teams or face to face following COVID secure guidelines)

This is an exciting opportunity for a leading professional to join our Mental Health team as a Senior Social Work Practitioner - Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP).

The Hub will consist of a Team Manager and two Hub AMHPs who work 9am-5pm and eight Hub AMHPs who work on a rolling rota, over a 24hr period. Shifts will typically be early, late and night.

**What can you expect?**
- You will work as part of a strong and dynamic social work service.
- You will be required to undertake strengths-based assessments in highly complex situations.
- You will utilise your skills to develop and implement effective plans of support aimed at improving wellbeing and delivering better outcomes for people. as well as contributing to and developing skills in safeguarding.

Take a look at the attached job description and see if you have the skills, qualifications, and experience to be a Senior Social Work Practitioner

**Experience and Skills**

**Key Skills**:
- Ability to work proactively as a member of the team to make an accurate assessment of needs and negotiate and implement effective plans and outcomes, whilst prioritising workload and meeting deadlines.
- Demonstrable evidence of leadership skills when working in partnership with people, carers, colleagues, and a variety of external agencies in complex situations to meet people's outcomes.
- Expertise of managing situations with complex and competing risks, utilising a risk enablement approach, and using evidence-based practice. Solution focussed with the ability to analyse complex situations and provide forward thinking strategies and solutionsthat consider a variety of possible strength-based solutions, balancing risks, resources and desired outcomes.
- Expertise in leading on safeguarding enquiries.
- Highly developed communication skills to influence in a multi-disciplinary setting and communicate clearly and effectively to explain complicated information to a wide range of people and negotiate and persuade others to adopt a particular course of actionthat they may not otherwise wish to take.
- Able to model and use social work skills in practice, supervision, mentoring and leadership to develop and maintain an environment in which professionally curiosity, critical reflection and analysis is valued, staff are supported their find own solutionsand practice capability is developed.
**Qualifications and/or experience**:

- A Degree in Social Work or a recognised equivalent Social Work qualification e.g., Diploma in Social Work.
- A recognised post qualifying award in Social Work (e.g., Practice Educator, Best Interest Assessor and/or Approved Mental Health Professional) or demonstrable evidence of continuous professional development at a similar level.
- Registered with Social Work England.
- Experience of undertaking assessments in complex situations and social work intervention planning, implementation, and review by means of creative and pragmatic solutions.
- Excellent, up-to-date working knowledge of relevant legislation e.g., Care Act (2014), Mental Capacity Act (2005) etc.
- Requirement for BIA qualified practitioners to contribute to BIA service delivery, AMHP qualified practitioners to contribute to AMHP service delivery.

**Rewards and Benefits**
- Up to 29 days annual leave + bank holidays with the ability to buy additional leave annually
- Access to a generous, defined benefit pension scheme
- A range of flexible working options

**Further Information