The Community Rehabilitation Team is looking to recruit an experienced Social Worker to join our multidisciplinary team. The successful candidate will have significant experience of working with people with relapsing and remitting mental ill health, including experience of working across a number of services, including secondary care and mental health inpatient services.
Job Title: Social Worker
Job type: Full-time
Salary: £38,682 to £46,580 a year Per annum, pro rata
Deadline: 09 September 2025
Roles & Responsibilities
We are based at Trust HQ in Ashton Under Lyne. Our core hours are Monday to Friday 9am-5pm.
To be responsible for a caseload of service users under the care of the Community Rehabilitation Team, taking a strengths based and solution focused approach to supporting people in their recovery journey.
To provide specialist social work interventions to service users and their carers / families, and involve them in all planning, helping to develop social resilience, motivation and daily living skills.
To offer guidance to the Community Rehabilitation Team regarding social care and social work knowledge, including legal literacy and Local Authority systems. Where necessary, make referrals to Local Authorities who fulfil statutory social work functions, or guide members of the team in understanding Local Authority systems, processes and procedures.
Champion the social model of care for services users whilst taking a biopsychosocial approach to meeting service users’ holistic goals.
To be part of a multi-disciplinary team providing strengths based and recovery focused support.
Contribute to risk assessments and the development of management plans, including transitional arrangements between hospital and community settings, using positive risk taking approaches where indicated as appropriate, promoting choice and control.
Eligibility Requirements
Qualifications
Essential
- Social Work Qualification e.g. BA (Hons), MA, MSW DSW CQSW
- Further short courses and/or experience to post graduate diploma level, e.g. Assessed and Supported Year in Employment (ASYE)
- Registration with Social Work England
Experience
Essential
- Post registration experience of working with service users with complex mental health need
- Post registration experience of working in a multi-disciplinary setting
- Post registration experience of working with care providers in a community setting
- Experience of developing trauma informed, collaborative risk management plans, promoting service user choice and control including working with issues relating to self neglect, domestic abuse, substance use and risk towards others.
Desirable
- Post registration Inpatient experience working within a Low Secure Service
- Experience of working in a forensic setting.
Knowledge
Essential
- Able to demonstrate applied knowledge of: o Mental Health Act o Mental disorder o Safeguarding Adults o Child Safeguarding o Code of conduct
- Applied knowledge of social determinants which impact on health and wellbeing of people and communities.
- Knowledge of a range of interventions appropriate to the needs of service users
- Understanding of MHA and governance
Skills
Essential
- Excellent communication skills with service users, carers, colleagues and other professionals
- Sound analytical skills particularly in risk management
- Able to plan and deliver packages of care
- Excellent IT skills
- Negotiating and motivational skills
- Good organisational skills – an ability to manage time, prioritise work and meet deadlines
- Able to work as part of a team including multi-disciplinary working with adults, carers and other professionals
- A passion for promoting the rights and entitlements for those who face discrimination as a result of a mental ill health
- Able to perform duties working in a stressful environment and engage sensitively with patients, service users, carers and relatives who have high levels of distress, anxiety and aggression.
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