Social Worker Job at Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust (Middlesbrough)

Social Worker

Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

Location:
United Kingdom , Middlesbrough

Category:
Nursing

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

38682.00 - 46580.00 GBP / Year

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Job Description:

We are looking for a compassionate, knowledgeable and committed Social Worker to work as part of our team in Secure Inpatient Services. If this is you, we have a post available for a full time Registered Social Worker at Ridgeway - Roseberry Park Hospital. The post will be open to those who are looking for a progression opportunity, and experienced social workers. You will need to be an enthusiastic team player with good communication skills and the willingness to learn and develop, as well as share your knowledge in this valued field of mental health and learning disabilities. In return we offer you the opportunity to work with a highly skilled and experienced MDT providing support and supervision for you, alongside excellent standards of care for our patients. We are an established team providing social work support across a range of low and medium secure mental health, autism and learning disability wards. Please note that the standard working hours for this role are Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm, however flexible working can be considered.

Job Responsibility:

To keep family and carers regularly informed about the patients assessment, progress and care plan as is appropriate and consistent with the patient's wishes
To support access to advocacy services for patients, family and carers
To work within the requirements of the relevant legislation, policies and procedures
To safeguard and promote the welfare of children and work closely with local authority's and children and families services regarding leave arrangements or a child visiting a patient
To work with other members of the MDT to collaboratively engage the patient in the Care Programme Approach, including the provision of reports for relevant meetings
To be responsible and accountable for their own and delegated patient records in line with SWE and Trust Guidelines
To communicate effectively with all members of the multi-disciplinary team whilst liaising with external agencies and organisations as appropriate from the Trust area, demonstrating a commitment to collaborative working, including attendance at relevant MDT meetings (e.g. MAPPA.)
To be committed to the delivery of a service based on an agreed framework for good practice within local and national initiatives to meet the needs of patients and provide safe practice, using both individual and group therapeutic interventions as appropriate
To prepare and present reports in relation to individual patients as and when necessary, in line with professional competence, patient need and service requirements
Delivering high quality patient care
Professionally accountable for own complex social work caseload, working autonomously to deliver social work intervention 1-1 and/or in groups, in a variety of settings (which may include the service users own home)
Will seek guidance for highly complex cases from relevant more senior professional as appropriate
Undertakes complex and noncomplex social work assessments, co-creates social work goals, and delivers social work interventions
Obtains patient consent (or appropriate legal alternative) for social work assessment /interventions, using autonomous professional judgment in complex situations ensuring that all patients remain at the centre of decision making and are fully safeguarded
Promotes and maintains safety, privacy and dignity of all patients in the delivery of patient centred care, recognising and respecting differences including spiritual and cultural beliefs
Recognise diversity and apply anti-discriminatory and anti-oppressive principles in practice
Leads and supports others to promote recovery, coproduction and allyship with service users, carers and others involved in their care
Acts, wherever applicable, in accordance with all relevant legislation for example the Human rights Act, Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act, Children Act, duty of candour and associated policies, procedures, and supports others to do so
Recognises the potential for signs of patient harm, abuse or neglect, including poor clinical practice, reporting all such concerns and taking all reasonable steps to protect the patient with due regard to therapeutic positive risk taking and supports others to do so
Responsible for identifying and reporting concerns regarding the safeguarding of all those who may be at risk within expected timescales and in accordance with legislative frameworks and local policies and procedures and supports others to do so
Ensures the highest professional standards and attitudes towards the care of patients are maintained at all times and that care is delivered in accordance with evidence-based practice and relevant professional guidance and supports others to do so
Ensures Social Work interventions and support are based on current risk assessment, evidence-based practice, critical thinking and whole system support requirements that take account of relevant physical, social, cultural, psychological, spiritual, genetic and environmental factors
Monitors and evaluates social work treatment utilising relevant outcome measures where appropriate, responding appropriately to feedback from service users carers and others
Modifies social work treatment plans to ensure effectiveness of intervention in order to review progress and ensure effectiveness of clinical interventions and ensuring the same for those you have supervisory responsibility for
Demonstrates safe physical interventions in the management of violence and aggression as required for the post and in line with trust training requirements e.g, level 1 and/or 2 positive and safe training
Responds to and supports others with crisis situations, seeking advice and guidance from other relevant professionals and escalating as appropriate
Responsible for maintaining appropriate boundaries with service users and those involved in their care in line with professional standards
Successfully communicating with others, establish and maintain great working relationships and gain co-operation
Communicates in a way which recognises and values difference and ensures that people with a range of communication abilities feel included and their individual communication needs are met
With consent, communicates information regarding service users care professionally, compassionately and in a timely manner to carers and others involved as appropriate, having due regard for confidentiality at all times

Requirements:

Appropriate professional qualification in social work role
Current relevant registration with specific regulatory body
International English Language Testing System (IELTS) level 7 (SLT =8) for International recruits
Minimum 12 months post qualifying experience of social work delivery/completion of AYSE for social work (post 2012), pre 2012 evidence of experience in accordance with professional capabilities framework for an experienced social worker
Understanding of the needs of service users with mental health conditions or learning disabilities
Legal literacy
Good observational skills and ability to describe such observations verbally and in writing
Record keeping and report writing
Collaborating with service users and carers and their families in accordance with the principles of coproduction
Manage own complex caseload and prioritise effectively
Support other to manage their caseload and prioritise effectively within a supervisor or educational relationship
Effectively manage complex clinical and social issues
Motivate and work positively and constructively with other members of the team
Delegate tasks appropriately
Apply latest research evidence and evaluative thinking in practice
Provide effective teaching, training and clinical supervision
Use appropriate digital technologies
Demonstrates transferable skills from previous roles
Able to work in accordance with Trust Values
Committed to continual quality and service improvement
Self-aware and committed to continual professional and personal development
Able to accept and respond positively to feedback from supervision
Committed to promoting a positive image of people with mental health conditions and learning disabilities, autism
Committed to promoting a positive image of the Department, profession, service and the wider Trust
Awareness of the needs of individuals from diverse social, ethnic and cultural backgrounds
Ability to relate therapeutically to the needs of the service user group
Ability to adapt treatment using own initiative
Ability to work collaboratively with members of the MDT to provide an effective service
Ability to plan and organise a caseload and prioritise effectively
Ability to work on own in variety of settings using initiative appropriately
Ability to work under pressure
Able to work flexibly and co-operatively as part of a team
Ability to travel independently in accordance with Trust policies and service need
This post is subject to an enhanced satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service Check

Nice to have:

Post graduate training in relevant specialist area
Experience of supporting people with mental health issues, learning disability or autism
Experience of working in Multidisciplinary Team (SW essential criteria)
Clinical risk assessment and application in practice
Knowledge of evidence-based practice in designated specialist area
Post graduate training in specialist area if applicable to post (e.g. dysphagia, autism diagnostics)
Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team
Experience of managing complex social work cases
Awareness of professional standards and its application to practice
Member of relevant professional body if applicable

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
January 25, 2026

Expiration:
February 22, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

On-site work

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Social Worker

Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

Location:
United Kingdom , Middlesbrough

Category:
Nursing

Contract Type:
Not provided

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Job Description:

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Additional Information:

Job Posted:
January 25, 2026

Expiration:
February 22, 2026

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