Care Co-ordinator Social Worker

As a Social Worker and Care Co-ordinator within the Assertive Outreach Team, you will hold responsibility for a caseload of adults with complex mental health and social care needs. You will undertake comprehensive assessments, coordinate care planning, and ensure timely review of care and risk management plans in line with CPA and statutory requirements.

You will apply social work values and professional judgement to safeguard individuals, promote wellbeing, and support recovery, working creatively with people who may be reluctant to engage. This includes working in partnership with carers, families and a wide range of statutory and voluntary agencies.

The role requires confident application of legislation, including the Care Act, Mental Capacity Act, Mental Health Act and Human Rights legislation, ensuring practice is lawful, proportionate and evidence-based. You will provide professional leadership within the MDT, act as a role model for social work practice, supervise and support colleagues where required, and contribute to quality improvement, service evaluation and learning across the team. Participation in the out-of-hours rota is required.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.

Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.

For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk

Essential: - Registered Social Worker; - Evidence of Continuing Professional Development

Desirable: - Post Graduate qualification related to specialism; - Additional qualification for specialism

Essential: - Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team; - Basic Training in Mental Capacity Act; - Experience dealing with service users with complex mental health needs

Desirable: - Previous experience of undertaking continuing care assessments; - Experience relating to community specialism

Essential: - Ability to offer in-service training to junior colleagues; - Enthusiastic and has ability to participate in full rotational shifts; - Ability to calmly manage complex and stressful situations, prioritising own work and work of others

Essential: - Knowledge of physical healthcare needs; - Awareness of safeguarding issues and responsibilities under relevant legislation

Essential: - Ability to travel independently around the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area meeting required timescales. A full driving licence and access to a vehicle is essential.