Employer: Pennine Care NHS FT
Job Title: Social Worker
Location: United Kingdom
Salary: £38,682 to £46,580 per annum
Job Type: Full-time, Permanent
Pay Scheme: Agenda for Change – Band 6
Closing Date: 09 September 2025
Job Summary
The Community Rehabilitation Team is seeking an experienced Social Worker to join its multidisciplinary team.
The role involves working with people with relapsing and remitting mental ill health, supporting transitions from inpatient rehabilitation facilities to community living, and helping service users improve their quality of life.
Key aspects:
Focus on the Recovery Model with a strengths-based and trauma-informed approach
Support independence, autonomy, and wellbeing
Collaborate with local authorities, inpatient services, and community care providers
Work trust-wide across five boroughs of Pennine Care (driving essential)
Main Duties of the Job
Manage a caseload of service users in the Community Rehabilitation Team
Provide specialist social work interventions to service users and their families/carers
Guide the team on social care knowledge, legal literacy, and local authority systems
Make referrals to Local Authorities when required
Champion the social model of care while applying a biopsychosocial approach
Contribute to risk assessments and management plans, including hospital-to-community transitions
Promote positive risk-taking, choice, and control
Hours: Monday to Friday, 9am–5pm
Base: Trust HQ, Ashton Under Lyne
About Pennine Care NHS FT
Pennine Care NHS FT provides high-quality mental health and learning disability services across Greater Manchester (Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tameside and Glossop).
Highlights:
Vision: a happier, more hopeful life for everyone in our communities
Proud of our #PennineCarePeople and supportive workplace culture
Committed to equality, diversity, and lived experience inclusion
Staff Benefits:
Generous annual leave entitlement
Flexible working opportunities
Continued Professional Development
Opportunities for research and improvement activities
Health & Wellbeing services
Staff discounts across retail, leisure, and travel
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential:
Social Work Qualification (BA, MA, MSW, DSW, CQSW)
Postgraduate-level courses/experience (e.g., ASYE)
Registration with Social Work England
Experience
Essential:
Post-registration experience with complex mental health needs
Experience in multi-disciplinary settings
Experience with community-based care providers
Developing trauma-informed, collaborative risk management plans (including self-neglect, domestic abuse, substance use, risk to others)
Desirable:
Inpatient experience within a Low Secure Service
Forensic setting experience
Knowledge
Essential:
Applied knowledge of Mental Health Act, safeguarding (adults & children), mental disorder, and professional code of conduct
Understanding social determinants of health and wellbeing
Range of appropriate interventions
Governance and MHA knowledge
Desirable:
Knowledge of NHS systems, e.g., Data Security and Protection Toolkit
Skills
Essential:
Excellent communication with service users, carers, and professionals
Strong analytical and risk management skills
Care planning and delivery skills
IT proficiency
Negotiation and motivational ability
Organisational and time management skills
Ability to work in stressful environments and engage sensitively with distressed or aggressive individuals
Commitment to promoting rights and entitlements for people with mental ill health
Additional Information
Disclosure & Barring Service Check: Required under Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975
Certificate of Sponsorship: Available for Skilled Worker applicants (subject to UKVI rules)
Criminal Record Certificates: Required for overseas applicants with 12+ months residence abroad in the past 10 years
UK Registration: Applicants must hold current UK professional registration (see NHS Careers website)
How to Apply
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