Job Summary
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust is looking for two social workers to join their Local Mental Health Teams (LMHTs): one based at LMHT Gedling (1.0 FTE) and one at LMHT City East (0.6 FTE).
This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing social work workforce focused on improving mental health outcomes. Social workers will use advanced relationship-based skills, a human rights approach, and strength-based working to support positive, self-directed change.
Successful candidates will work within multi-disciplinary community mental health teams, supporting individuals experiencing social issues impacting their mental health by applying social work and psychoeducation interventions. Social work training and supervision will be provided, along with opportunities to develop additional skills.
- Employer: Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Job Title: Social Worker
- Location: United Kingdom
- Salary: £37,338 to £44,962 per annum
- Job Type: Full-time
- Closing Date: 28 July 2025
Main Duties
Demonstrate social work principles through professional judgement, decision-making, and accountability.
Promote and lead the social perspective and trauma-informed social model of mental health within the multidisciplinary team.
Value and incorporate expertise from service users, carers, and other professionals.
Manage an individual caseload, providing social work expertise to improve mental health outcomes by understanding social determinants of mental health.
Deliver social work interventions and coordinate care for individuals facing social stressors impacting their mental health.
Complete team responsibilities as required.
Conduct holistic assessments, involving individuals’ families and carers when appropriate.
Assess and manage risk, balancing safeguarding with choice, self-determination, and positive risk-taking under relevant legislation.
Support strength- and asset-based working to promote self-directed change and community engagement.
Identify and manage safeguarding issues, including adult and children’s safeguarding responsibilities; act as safeguarding link for the team.
Ensure evidence-based practice informed by social work theories and values, with a human rights approach.
Promote family and carer work within the team, collaborating with the Family Intervention Team.
Maintain expertise on legislation including the Care Act, Mental Capacity Act, Equality Act, Human Rights Act, Mental Health Act, and more.
Work in partnership with external agencies to support access to statutory, independent, and non-statutory services.
Liaise with Social Care to ensure appropriate support levels and help colleagues engage with Social Care processes.
Model anti-discriminatory and anti-racist practice, challenging systemic issues.
Actively participate as a member of the multi-disciplinary team, attending meetings and promoting a learning culture.
Provide supervision to colleagues as required.
Occasionally deliver medication, consulting prescribers and following procedures.
Perform any other reasonable duties, including duty system participation.
Note: A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use are required, with reasonable adjustments available for disabled individuals under the Equality Act 2010.
About Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
#TeamNottsHC includes over 11,000 dedicated colleagues who #MakeADifference daily. The Trust provides intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic, and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire.
Care is delivered from 200+ sites including community locations, acute settings, secure environments, and prisons. The Trust is one of the largest mental health and community providers in the East Midlands and one of Nottinghamshire’s biggest employers.
Notable services include the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
The Trust supports a diverse workforce with employee-led networks for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI), Green Champions, Freedom to Speak Up, Health and Wellbeing, and Menopause Champions.
Health and wellbeing are priorities, supported by in-house occupational health and counselling services, plus a dedicated Health and Wellbeing team.
Committed to sustainability, the Trust has an Energy and Environmental team focused on environmental compliance and achieving net-zero goals.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential:
Degree-level social work qualification or equivalent
Completed ASYE or equivalent
Current registration with Social Work England (SWE)
Desirable:
Completed or willing to work towards Practice Education (PEPS 1 or both)
Contractual Requirements
Essential: Full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use (reasonable adjustments for disabled applicants)
Values and Behaviours
Essential:
Adhere to Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust values: Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion, Teamwork
Commitment to Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion in line with Trust policies and legislation
Experience
Essential:
Managing individual caseloads and team responsibilities
Delivering personalised health and social needs assessments and care planning
Risk assessment and management, balancing safeguarding with choice and positive risk-taking
Safeguarding in complex cases and supporting others
Applying legislation to protect people’s rights
Strength/asset-based working to support self-directed change
Working with external agencies to facilitate access to services
Desirable:
Expertise in adult and children’s safeguarding within multidisciplinary teams
Promoting family and carers work
Knowledge
Essential:
Understanding of complex needs and mental health inequalities
Expertise in relevant legislation (Care Act, Mental Capacity Act, Equality Act, Human Rights Act, Mental Health Act, Transforming Care)
Knowledge of social work theories and adult mental health models
Desirable:
Training in psychological and therapeutic approaches integrated into social work
Skills
Essential:
High-level communication and interpersonal skills for working with individuals, families, carers, and multi-agency teams
Coordination and advocacy skills
Ability to prioritise workload balancing caseload and team duties
Accurate and timely clinical record keeping with sound decision-making
Model anti-discriminatory and anti-racist practice
Desirable:
Providing supervision to colleagues
Additional Information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post requires a DBS check as per the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from candidates needing Skilled Worker sponsorship are welcome and considered equally. For more info visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
Skilled worker applicants applying for UK entry clearance must present criminal record certificates for countries lived in for 12+ months in the past 10 years. Adult dependants are also subject to this. Guidance: Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.
How to Apply
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