Social Work Assistant

Job summary

The service is designed to provide an integrated model of social care that promotes a positive experience for service users and carers across the whole service.

LPFT have a Section 75 agreement under the National Health Service Act (2006) where Lincolnshire County Council have devolved their assessment and care management duties to LPFT. Social work in the Trust is delivered through a Community Social Care Resource where social care staff are aligned to the integrated community teams but are managed and supervised from within the social care resource. Three distinct Social Work teams exist covering the East, West and South of the county respectively. Each team has a Team Manager and mangers are expected to work closely in order to provide a consistent service across the county.

This post of Social Work Assistant is a key role in the Trust's Community Social Care Resource providing reablement work with our service users and supporting them to maximise their independence and engage with their local community.

This is a permanent post, supporting the social workers within the team. You will carry out direct work with service users and colleagues within other teams within the Trust; promoting multi-disciplinary working. You will play an integral part in supporting our service users within our local community. The main base is at Lincoln.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for the implementation of care plans and care packages to services users experiencing severe mental illness and/or mental health problems within a defined locality. The post holder will work under the supervision of a Social Worker and will be managed by one of the Social Care Team's, Team Coordinators. Main requirements are to:

Contribute positively to multi-disciplinary and multi-agency team work

Support people in the community aged between 18 and 65 who have severe and enduring mental illness.

Work with individuals to develop support plans, set outcomes and enable people to achieve those outcomes.

Support individuals through the recovery process, to achieve the best quality of life possible and to be able to live as independently as possible.

Take direction from qualified social workers

About us

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!

We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.

This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.