Job summary
The Enhanced Rehabilitation Outreach Service (EROS) provides support to individuals with complex and enduring long term severe mental illness, at the point of discharge from inpatient rehabilitation services (both in-house and in the independent sector). The service provides a dedicated, integrated multi-disciplinary team of professionals, who aim to improve quality of life, promote hope, recovery and individual resilience and reduce reliance on crisis and inpatient services to service users. The team deliver evidence-based interventions and use a recovery focused approach, through co-produced plans of care to build resilience and improve wellbeing.
The team also provides advice and support to Community Mental Health Teams, Placement Services and other Providers to develop their capacity and capability to support service users with Serious Mental Health illnesses.
The service has been successful in both improving outcomes for individuals and reducing the reliance on inpatient services and overall length of stay. The service has introduced two additional pathways which will extend the teams current offer and enable more service users to access the service directly from the community (step up) or at point of discharge (step down) from an acute inpatient bed.
This Social Work post will provide specific in-reach to the inpatient rehab units to facilitate safe, early discharges.
Main duties of the job
The Enhanced Rehabilitation Outreach Service (EROS) provides support to individuals with complex and enduring long term severe mental illness, at the point of discharge from inpatient rehabilitation services (both in-house and in the independent sector). The service provides a dedicated, integrated multi-disciplinary team of professionals, who aim to improve quality of life, promote hope, recovery and individual resilience and reduce reliance on crisis and inpatient services to service users. The team deliver evidence-based interventions and use a recovery focused approach, through co-produced plans of care to build resilience and improve wellbeing. Interventions can include:
o Goal setting
o Symptom management
o Medication support
o Targeting negative symptoms and poor physical health
o Positive Risk Management planning
o Short term post transfer community support to service users from in house provision to ensure care package is in place and appropriate
o Supporting service users to access their local community
o Focused support to further improve activities of daily living (ADL) in a community setting
o Individual/group interventions aimed at improving socialisation and employment opportunities
o Advice and support to start the process of undertaking vocational or paid employment
o Advice and support with debt management and tenancy queries
About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
Our family of over 4000 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.
The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Our Trust values are:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!
Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?
Job description
Job responsibilities
To be a champion of social care with a comprehensive understanding of legislation and statutory guidance.
To take a lead in the promotion of adult safeguarding practice and undertake safeguarding enquires and contribute to the provision of care plans that protect both adults and children from abuse.
To undertake comprehensive assessments and reviews, for people who may present with a high risk, or those with significant interpersonal, social, legal and/or environmental complexities, ensuring people are assessed appropriately against social care eligibility criteria as defined by The Care Act 2014.
To provide specialist social work advice to our inpatient rehab units.
To offer direct support to service users and their carers, and to colleagues, through information and advice, to ensure that those who do not meet social care eligibility are appropriately signposted and supported.
To ensure that appropriate health and social care services are commissioned with and on behalf of service users, including the duty to offer direct payments, and that processes are in place for service users to be charged by the local authority for the social care services they receive, if applicable.
To ensure that commissioned services allow choice to service users and carers and focus on people living in the community with appropriate support and access to universal services.
To undertake regular risk assessments and ensure that vulnerable people are kept safe.
To undertake carer assessments, including identifying contingency plans, and provision of support.
To be skilled in partnership working and identify, develop, and facilitate a wide range of recovery-focused community services, ensuring that colleagues within the locality are also aware of developments and best practice.
To ensure the involvement of service users and their carers to that the Trust can learn from their experiences to make improvements to service delivery.
To ensure accurate computer records of all work undertaken are kept up to date.
To undertake your own post qualifying and other appropriate training to ensure high standards of practice and continuation of your registration with Social Work England.
To provide both management and reflective supervision to newly qualified social workers and unregistered social care staff.
To support newly qualified social workers through the Assessed and Supported Year in Employment (ASYE), with opportunities to train as an ASYE assessor.
To undertake duties as an Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) or be willing to undertake AMHP training.
To participate in your own regular supervision and ensure regular reflection on your own practice as both a social worker and AMHP.
To undertake other tasks and duties which form part of the delegated social care responsibilities accepted by the Trust on behalf of Hertfordshire County Council.
To adhere to Trust policies and procedures.
To undertake additional training as required.
To carry out any other duties as appropriately identified by your line manager.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To be a champion of social care with a comprehensive understanding of legislation and statutory guidance.
To take a lead in the promotion of adult safeguarding practice and undertake safeguarding enquires and contribute to the provision of care plans that protect both adults and children from abuse.
To undertake comprehensive assessments and reviews, for people who may present with a high risk, or those with significant interpersonal, social, legal and/or environmental complexities, ensuring people are assessed appropriately against social care eligibility criteria as defined by The Care Act 2014.
To provide specialist social work advice to our inpatient rehab units.
To offer direct support to service users and their carers, and to colleagues, through information and advice, to ensure that those who do not meet social care eligibility are appropriately signposted and supported.
To ensure that appropriate health and social care services are commissioned with and on behalf of service users, including the duty to offer direct payments, and that processes are in place for service users to be charged by the local authority for the social care services they receive, if applicable.
To ensure that commissioned services allow choice to service users and carers and focus on people living in the community with appropriate support and access to universal services.
To undertake regular risk assessments and ensure that vulnerable people are kept safe.
To undertake carer assessments, including identifying contingency plans, and provision of support.
To be skilled in partnership working and identify, develop, and facilitate a wide range of recovery-focused community services, ensuring that colleagues within the locality are also aware of developments and best practice.
To ensure the involvement of service users and their carers to that the Trust can learn from their experiences to make improvements to service delivery.
To ensure accurate computer records of all work undertaken are kept up to date.
To undertake your own post qualifying and other appropriate training to ensure high standards of practice and continuation of your registration with Social Work England.
To provide both management and reflective supervision to newly qualified social workers and unregistered social care staff.
To support newly qualified social workers through the Assessed and Supported Year in Employment (ASYE), with opportunities to train as an ASYE assessor.
To undertake duties as an Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) or be willing to undertake AMHP training.
To participate in your own regular supervision and ensure regular reflection on your own practice as both a social worker and AMHP.
To undertake other tasks and duties which form part of the delegated social care responsibilities accepted by the Trust on behalf of Hertfordshire County Council.
To adhere to Trust policies and procedures.
To undertake additional training as required.
To carry out any other duties as appropriately identified by your line manager.
Person Specification
KNOWLEDGE, TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE:
Essential
- An appropriate professional social work qualification
- Education to degree level
- Registration with Social Work England
- Training in principles and application of outcomes focused assessments and personalisation
- Relevant post-qualifying training for social workers
- Training and experience in Safeguarding
Desirable
- Approved Mental Health Professional/Best Interests Assessment Training
AREAS OF EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE:
Essential
- Significant post qualification experience
- Knowledge of legislation, theory and policy in relation to relevant care group.
- Experience of undertaking assessments, focused as personalisation, choice and control, and care planning.
- Understanding and experience of personal budgets and direct payments.
- Experience of multidisciplinary working and ability to work collaboratively
- Experience of partnership working with service users and carers, demonstrating dignity and respect
- Experience of work as Approved Mental Health Professional and/or Best Interests Assessor.
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Essential
- Excellent ability to communication with a wide range of stakeholders including service users and carers, other professional colleagues, members of other organisations and local communities, verbally and in writing
- Ability to manage highly sensitive information
- Experience of using electronic recording systems and ability to produce accurate, appropriate, and timely reports.
ANALYTICAL SKILLS
Essential
- Ability to analyse service user and carer information.
- Experience of undertaking small scale audits and surveys.
Person Specification
KNOWLEDGE, TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE:
Essential
- An appropriate professional social work qualification
- Education to degree level
- Registration with Social Work England
- Training in principles and application of outcomes focused assessments and personalisation
- Relevant post-qualifying training for social workers
- Training and experience in Safeguarding
Desirable
- Approved Mental Health Professional/Best Interests Assessment Training
AREAS OF EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE:
Essential
- Significant post qualification experience
- Knowledge of legislation, theory and policy in relation to relevant care group.
- Experience of undertaking assessments, focused as personalisation, choice and control, and care planning.
- Understanding and experience of personal budgets and direct payments.
- Experience of multidisciplinary working and ability to work collaboratively
- Experience of partnership working with service users and carers, demonstrating dignity and respect
- Experience of work as Approved Mental Health Professional and/or Best Interests Assessor.
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Essential
- Excellent ability to communication with a wide range of stakeholders including service users and carers, other professional colleagues, members of other organisations and local communities, verbally and in writing
- Ability to manage highly sensitive information
- Experience of using electronic recording systems and ability to produce accurate, appropriate, and timely reports.
ANALYTICAL SKILLS
Essential
- Ability to analyse service user and carer information.
- Experience of undertaking small scale audits and surveys.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
