Senior Social Worker
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 04/09/2026
- Closes
- 17/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for an experienced Band 7 Senior Social Worker to join the Adult Community Mental Health Service in Watford/Three Rivers. The successful candidate will lead the social care agenda, conduct complex assessments, and supervise social care staff within a multidisciplinary team. They will manage Care Act 2014 assessments and reviews, working collaboratively with community partners to support individuals and families. The position requires a full valid driving license and access to a car for business purposes.
Essential criteria
- An appropriate professional social work qualification
- Registration with General Social Care Council
- Education to degree level
- Masters Degree or equivalent training
- Approved Mental Health Professional training and qualification (or prepared to undertake training within a year of appointment)
- Relevant post-qualifying training for social workers
Desirable criteria
- Other post-qualifying training e.g. CBT, family therapy
- Best Interests Assessment training
- AREAS OF EXPERIENCE
- Stong post qualification experience with demonstrable evidence of excellent practice at a high level
- Extensive knowledge of legislation, statutory guidance, theory and policy in relation to relevant adult and children's social care.
- Experience of undertaking assessments,focused as personalisation, choice and control, and care planning Understanding and experience of personal budgets and direct payments
- Experience of supervising and mentoring staff
- Experience of multidisciplinary working and evidence of collaborative work
- Experience of partnership working with service users and carers, demonstrating dignity and respect particularly in very challenging situations
- Experience of work as Approved Mental Health Professional.
- Experience of work as a Best Interests assessor
- COMMUNICATION SKILLS
- Excellent ability to communicate with a wide range of stakeholders including service users and carers, other professional colleagues, members of other organisations and local communities, verbally and in writing.
- Evidence of successful management of difficult meetings.
- Ability to manage highly sensitive information
- Experience of using electronic recording systems and ability to produce accurate, appropriate and timely reports
- ANALYTICAL SKILLS
- Ability to analyse service user and carer information.
- Experience of undertaking small scale audits and surveys.
- Understanding of basic research methods
- DIVERSITY
- Demonstrable ability to working sensitively with diverse needs and environments
- Commitment to anti-discriminatory practice
- PHYSICAL SKILLS
- Ability to visit and attend meetings at a variety of locations and environments Experience of using computer - PC
- literate to ECDL standard
- Able to travel between bases and offices, as required, using suitable mode of transport.
- PHYSICAL EFFORT
- Ability to meet timescales and respond to crises and appropriate
- MENTAL EFFORT
- Flexibility and ability to respond to a variety of tasks, and to prioritise own workload
- Ability to manage others and convey information which may be contentious sensitively so that it achieves required improvements and outcomes
- EMOTIONAL EFFORT
- Ability to deal with distressing and sometimes aggressive behaviour of service users, carers and colleagues
- GENERAL
- Experience of working in an integrated health and social care environment
- KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE
- An appropriate professional social work qualification
- Registration with General Social Care Council
- Education to degree level
- Masters Degree or equivalent training
- Approved Mental Health Professional training and qualification (or prepared to undertake training within a year of appointment)
- Relevant post-qualifying training for social workers
- Other post-qualifying training e.g. CBT, family therapy
- Best Interests Assessment training
- AREAS OF EXPERIENCE
- Stong post qualification experience with demonstrable evidence of excellent practice at a high level
- Extensive knowledge of legislation, statutory guidance, theory and policy in relation to relevant adult and children's social care.
- Experience of undertaking assessments,focused as personalisation, choice and control, and care planning Understanding and experience of personal budgets and direct payments
- Experience of supervising and mentoring staff
- Experience of multidisciplinary working and evidence of collaborative work
- Experience of partnership working with service users and carers, demonstrating dignity and respect particularly in very challenging situations
- Experience of work as Approved Mental Health Professional.
- Experience of work as a Best Interests assessor
- COMMUNICATION SKILLS
- Excellent ability to communicate with a wide range of stakeholders including service users and carers, other professional colleagues, members of other organisations and local communities, verb
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £51,657 – £58,785 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Social Worker
The closing date is 17 September 2026
Job summary
Are you an experienced Social Worker seeking promotion?
Are you looking to develop into leadership & take your social care skills in the field of Adult Mental Health further?
Do you want to be part of an energetic & dynamic team in the heart of the South West Hertfordshire community, working for an award-winning, outstanding Trust?
We are looking for a Band 7 Senior Social Worker to join the Adult Community Mental Health Service in Watford/Three Rivers, Hertfordshire.
You must hold a full valid driving license and have access to a car to use regularly for business purposes is essential (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will:
- promote and lead the social care agenda within our multidisciplinary teams, acting in accordance with the principles of personalisation,
- carry out complex assessments of need, plan and deliver services and review outcomes with the individual, their personal support networks and support providers
- ensure practice within the team is responsive, inclusive and community based with a clear focus on outcomes
- supervise the social care staff within the team and support the wider team with social care
- manage the pr
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