Social Worker

Reference

PRI99954

Location

Elm Park, Station Road, Ardleigh, Colchester, CO7 7RT

Priory Group Division

Healthcare

Salary

£35,00 - £38,500 (FTE) DOE

Hours

22.5

Vacancy Type

Permanent - Part Time

Job Advert - Division Information

Providing quality, inspiring innovation and  delivering value is what we set out to achieve at Priory Healthcare. Enabling our patients with mental health illness to receive a truly integrated and holistic approach to their treatment, regardless of complexity or severity, thanks to the knowledge and expertise of our multidisciplinary clinical teams.

Job Advert Role Description

Job Purpose
As a Registered Social Worker, you will deliver high quality, safe care, ensuring consistently high standards of practice, which
comply with Social Work England Code of Practice.
The post holder will co-ordinate, negotiate and manage the mandatory processes and procedures to ensure the unit’s 
compliance with current legislation and statutory regulation. Taking appropriate action to maintain a humanistic and 
compassionate ethos whilst working with complex situations of social need and risk, including balancing competing views and 
rights.
The role includes working with the Multi-disciplinary team to deliver person centred care in a collaborative way focusing on 
personalisation and recovery and supporting individuals to make positive, self-directed change.

 

Responsibilities
 To provide expertise and leadership in Safeguarding.
 To bring clear focus on the rights of all service users and their families, including the ability to investigate, evaluate and 
learn from allegations to improve safety, dignity and compassion within the unit.
 To work as part of the Multi- disciplinary Team focusing on prevention, early intervention, building resilience and self care, reducing and delaying dependency.
 To undertake assessments, care plans and where required Tribunal Report to determine eligibility and support the access 
to services under relevant social care framework.
 Within assessments and interventions, identify and address social exclusions, its causes and effects on mental wellbeing 
and mental health.
 To work with service users to resolve their own problems and make their own sustainable support arrangements, which 
might include social care and health resources.
 To work in partnership with service users wherever possible. Shifting from the professional being ‘on top’ to ‘on tap’ a 
resource and collaborator not a controller.
 To promote empowerment, equality and social inclusion.
 To promote a social model with a bio /psycho /social holistic approach to care planning and recovery.
 To work alongside the service user and their carers supporting them with issues including housing, employment and 
finances. Striving to support social inclusion.
 Enable service users, as far as possible to be fully involved in their care and treatment. To support them to contribute to 
the design and delivery of future services taking in to account ‘no decision about me without me’ intentions of the Health 
and Social Care Act 2012.
 To work with service users to support their discharge in terms of planning, aftercare and community support as required.
 To promote carers’ rights and access to assessments and resources
 Where required be involved in statutory community and multiagency partnership forums (Multi Agency Public Protection 
Arrangements MAPPA and Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conference

Knowledge / Education / Skills
 Degree level Social Work qualification
 Registration with Social Work England
 Detailed knowledge and understanding of current Mental Health Legislation and framework including the Mental Health 
Act 1983 and Mental Capacity Act 2005.
 Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of Safeguarding Legislation including The Care Act 2014
 Have the skills and knowledge about multidisciplinary recovery-focused practice, emphasising hope, control and 
opportunity.
 Demonstrate a critical knowledge of the theories and models for social work intervention with individuals and their 
families.
 Make use of evidence from research and engage in evidence informed practice to support effective care and work with 
the individual to support their best interests.
 Be able to gather information quickly and effectively to inform judgement for interventions.
 Model and encourage positive working relationships in the team, promoting strategies for collaborations and a supportive 
team culture.
 Promote and advance, wherever possible individuals rights to autonomy and self-determination.
 Demonstrate ability to interpret and use current legislation and guidance to protect and /or advance people’s rights and 
entitlement, balancing the use of different legislation to achieve the best outcomes.
 Demonstrate knowledge and application of appropriate legal and policy frameworks and guidance. Apply legal reasoning, 
using professional legal expertise and advice appropriately.
 Be able to provide a professional opinion, giving rationale and knowledge base.
 Sustain and model engagement with people in fluctuating circumstances and capacities.
 Maintain and develop liaison across agencies. Model and demonstrate the ability to work within own unit and work with 
relationships between units and external organisations.
 Demonstrate confident application of understanding of the benefits and limitations of partnership work and support others 
to do so.
 Demonstrate and model the effective and positive use of power and authority, whilst recognising and providing guidance 
to others as to how it may be used oppressively.
 Recognise the short and long-term impact of psychological, socio- economic, environmental and physiological factors on 
people’s lives.
 Model critical reflection; be able to demonstrate the ability to examine your approach, judgements, decisions and 
interventions. Be able to provide objective support, free from your own values, views and beliefs. 
 Creatively combine ‘thinking, doing and being’ when working with individuals, families, groups, communities and 
organisations.
 Anticipate, assess and manage risk, including in more complex cases and support others to develop risk management 
skills.
 Model and help others to maintain professional / personal boundaries and skilled use of self.

Experience
Experience within a similar setting is preferable but not essential. 

Division DBS info

About us

From education to hospitals, care homes and secure facilities, the Priory Group of Companies offers individually tailored, multidisciplinary treatment programmes for those with complex educational needs or requiring acute, long-term and respite mental healthcare.

The integrated strength of each service provides a seamless transition for the individual as they progress between higher and lower dependency care and across services. This unique approach ensures that every individual has the opportunity to achieve the best possible outcomes and quality of life with the Priory Group.

As 85% of our services are publicly funded and delivered in partnership with commissioners, our teams work with commissioning bodies across the country to provide transparent pricing models and evidence-based care programmes.

Disclosure

All roles will be subject to a successful disclosure at an appropriate level from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), Access NI or Disclosure Scotland. We are an equal opportunities employer.

No agencies please

If you forward any CV’s to the Priory Group and you are not on the Priory Group PSL and have not been asked to work on the above role we will accept the CV as a gift.

Job Description

Social_Worker_Neuro_Rehab.pdf

Closing Date

30/04/2025