Forensic Social Worker

1 week ago


Maidstone, United Kingdom Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust Full time

Job summary

Our Social Workers have a significant set of skills and breadth of experience which contributes to an encouraging and reflective working environment. We are a supportive team and a part of this includes developing student placements. Our placements provide an opportunity for students to experience a comprehensive range of social work tasks that the successful candidate will help deliver. The Practice Educator Award will help support your application.

Main duties of the job

We are in a position to extend an invitation to suitable candidates to work in our Forensic Inpatient Social Work Team. You will be an experienced Social Worker and registered with Social Work England. You will be self-motivated and able to manage a high level of autonomy.

Some experience of Forensic Social Work will be helpful to you but we are interested in people with a clear commitment to person-centred social work. You will have a good knowledge of the Care Act 2014, the Mental Health Act 1983 and other related legislation. We will expect you to have had experience of Adult Safeguarding work and work with people who lack Capacity. You will also understand the Care Programme Approach framework.

About us

Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.

We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving million people across the county.

The Trust (rated Good overall by the CQC and Outstanding for care) has 3,283 staff working in 66 buildings across 33 locations, covering an area of 1,450 square miles.

You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.

The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post holder will be supported to manage an agreed caseload of highly complex forensic work. You will assist our inpatients to maintain links with their local community, and their families where appropriate. You will liaise closely with community teams and other agencies and support the Medium Secure Services' own MDT. You may be expected to undertake some travel in relation to your duties.

Newly qualified may apply and will be considered but will need to go through their ASYE at Band 5, once completed they will go to Band 6 thereafter.

Please refer to the attached job description for full details of the main responsibilities of the role.

Person Specification

Qualification

Essential

SW Qualification SW Registration

Desirable

Additional relevant training - eg AMHP, BIA, Practice Ed.

Forensic Expierience

Essential

Work with Offenders

Desirable

Work in Secure Service

Other Relevant Skills

Essential

Additional Qualifications or Training

Desirable

> 5 years experience in MH or related

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