Perinatal Social Worker

Social Workers play a crucial part in improving mental health outcomes for individuals, through understanding the social detriments of mental health and using a human rights approach. This requires advanced relationship-based skills focused on personalisation and strength-based working, to support people to make positive, self-directed change.

The successful candidate will work as a social worker in the multi-disciplinary Perinatal Community Mental Health Team. This involves supporting a caseload of individuals' who are experiencing social barriers, such as housing, domestic violence and isolation, to recovery by applying social work and psychoeducation interventions and representing the social work and social perspective in the team. Further training and supervision is available to support your growth in the role.

A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010.

Main duties of the job:

Due to significant investment as part of the NHS Long Term Plan ambitions, we are delighted to offer another Social Worker post within the Nottinghamshire Perinatal Mental Health Services.

Nottinghamshire Perinatal Community Mental Health Team is a multidisciplinary and well-established service providing a range of tailored approaches to meet the mental health needs of women and their families in the perinatal period.

We are co-located on the Hopewood site with Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services. The Team provides a service to the City and County of Nottinghamshire and Bassetlaw with clinics located across this geography.

The team provides care across the whole region of Nottinghamshire and Bassetlaw.

About us
#TeamNottsHC comprises over 11,000 dedicated colleagues who #MakeADifference every day. We deliver intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic, and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire. Our care is provided from over 200 sites, spanning community locations, acute settings, and secure environments, including prisons.

We are one of the largest mental health and community Trusts in the East Midlands and one of Nottinghamshire's biggest employers. We also host national and regional services, such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.

We offer a variety of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) groups, the Green Champions network, the Freedom to Speak Up network, the Health and Wellbeing Champions network, and the Menopause Champions network. These networks play a vital role in supporting our diverse workforce and promoting a culture of inclusivity.

The health and wellbeing of our colleagues is a top priority. We invest significantly in this through our in-house occupational health and staff counselling services, supported by a dedicated Health and Wellbeing team.

The Trust is committed to reducing its carbon emissions, with a specialised Energy and Environmental team working to ensure compliance with environmental legislation, enhance our environmental performance, and achieve our net-zero commitment

Job description

Job responsibilities:
To have a specific field of interest and knowledge around the wellbeing and functioning of families, with consideration to areas such as domestic violence.

To provide a defined level of assessment and access to Social Work interventions for a diverse patient group and their families, who present with significant mental health problems/disorders.

To provide realistic, timely and occasionally intensive Social Work interventions to patients within a community setting.

To demonstrate active clinical and managerial leadership skills within the team, providing education and supervision to junior staff members and other professionals.

To build relationships and liaise with statutory and third sector organisations that could support the families we work with towards recovery - such as Women's Aid and Framework.

Person Specification
Values and Behaviours

Essential
All colleagues are expected to demonstrate that they act in line with Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Values: Trust Honesty Respect Compassion Teamwork
All colleagues are expected to demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and how it applies to their role. The Trust's expectations are highlighted within our EDI Policy, and associated EDI and Human Rights legislation

Qualifications
Essential

Professional Qualification in Social Work to degree level or equivalent
Maintains current registration with Social Work England
Evidence of continued professional development

Desirable
Further training in a clinical intervention applicable in the perinatal period
training

Essential
Willingness to undertake new interventions, education and training that will enhance service delivery

Experience
Essential
Demonstrates satisfactory clinical expertise for the banding
Specialist and area specific experience
Working in Adult Mental Health Services, or able to demonstrate transferable experience

Desirable
The ability to deal with and resolve conflict
Work with women/birthing people in the perinatal period
Covering emergency duty line - responding to people in heightened states of distress at a point of crisis

Knowledge
Essential

Knowledge and understanding of current legislation and understanding of clinical risk assessments
Perinatal drivers - nationally and locally

Desirable
Awareness of national and local issues impacting care
Knowledge of management theories

Skills
Essential

Ability to work as part of a team
Good written/oral communication skills
Diplomatic, caring & sympathetic
Ability to be flexible and handle conflict issues
Good skills in assessment intervention and evaluation of patients nursing care
Clinical supervision skills
IT skills
Caseload management

Desirable
A high level of emotional intelligence
Providing interventions suitable for clients in the perinatal period