Community Mental Health Social Worker
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working, Compressed hours
- Posted
- 17/08/2026
- Closes
- 30/08/2026
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Role summary
This role is for an enthusiastic and motivated Social Worker to join the Biggleswade Community Mental Health Team, providing high quality social care services to adults with mental ill-health. You will conduct assessments, care planning, and coordination of care from a social perspective, managing a caseload of service users with diverse mental health and social care needs. The team offers expert support, supervision, and continuous professional development opportunities, including an established ASYE programme and pathways for AMHP training.
Key responsibilities
- Liaise with acute inpatient units, Crisis Team, Primary Care, and the Voluntary and Private Sector to provide recovery-focused care.
- Play an active role in the discharge of service users from hospital and commission health and social care services.
- Undertake comprehensive Care Act assessments and reviews for individuals with complex Health and Social Care needs.
- Promote adult safeguarding practice, undertake safeguarding enquiries, and contribute to care plans that protect vulnerable individuals.
- Ensure appropriate health and social care services are commissioned for and on behalf of service users.
Essential criteria
- Qualified Social Worker registered with Social Work England (SWE)
Desirable criteria
- Educated to Degree Level
- Relevant specialist post qualifying/post graduate training
- Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary environment/community experience.
- Experience of attending funding panel and care commissioning
- Experience of working within an NHS/Local Authority environment and an understanding of the issues/ policies/ practice within these environments.
- Post qualification experience within mental health services
- Previous appointment as an AMHP /Best Interest asAssessor (BIA) NB Social Workers are expected to train and practise as AMHP's
- Knowledge/Skills
- Understanding a range of models of mental disorder and the treatment options.
- Comprehensive understanding of the social determinants of mental illness and interventions to support recovery.
- Ability to conduct safeguarding enquiries and investigations when required
- Working knowledge of the NHS & Community Care Act, The Care Act, Mental Capacity Act and other social care & mental health legislation, policy & guidance
- Ability to assess manage complex and high risk situations effectively service users and carers
- Good report writing skills and ability to compile complex case recording ad report presentation, including legal documents i.e. social circumstances reports, court reports etc.
- Ability to manage and coordinate professionals, teams and services and mobilise provision where appropriate.
- Assessment skills and the ability to compile care plans in partnership with service users, carers and others
- Knowledge of relevant safeguarding legislation, statutory guidance and procedures
- Assertiveness and engagement with other professionals, able to make reasoned arguments and represent own professional views and perspectives.
- Decision -making and problem solving, able to adopt creative and flexible approaches to meet the needs of service users.
- Highly developed organisational skills, able to prioritise workload and delegate effectively.
- Well -developed communication skills, able to communicate effectively with a wide range of audiences
- Mental Health Practice Skills and an understanding of CPA and the NSF standards.
- IT skills, experience of working with service user data systems
- A thorough working knowledge of the Mental Health Act 1983 and subsequent amendments
- Educational/ Qualification
- Qualified Social Worker registered with Social Work England (SWE)
- Educated to Degree Level
- Relevant specialist post qualifying/post graduate training
- Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary environment/community experience.
- Experience of attending funding panel and care commissioning
- Experience of working within an NHS/Local Authority environment and an understanding of the issues/ policies/ practice within these environments.
- Post qualification experience within mental health services
- Previous appointment as an AMHP /Best Interest asAssessor (BIA) NB Social Workers are expected to train and practise as AMHP's
- Knowledge/Skills
- Understanding a range of models of mental disorder and the treatment options.
- Comprehensive understanding of the social determinants of mental illness and interventions to support recovery.
- Ability to conduct safeguarding enquiries and investigations when required
- Working knowledge of the NHS & Community Care Act, The Care Act, Mental Capacity Act and other social care & mental health legislation, policy & guidance
- Ability to assess manage complex and high risk situations effectively service users and carers
- Good report writing skills and ability to compile complex case recording ad report presentation, including legal documents i.e. social circumstances reports, court reports etc.
- Ability to manage and coordinate professionals, teams and services and mobilise provision where appropriate.
- Assessment skills and the ability to compile care plans in partnership with service users, carers and others
- Knowledge of relevant safeguarding legislation, statutory guidance and proc
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
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East London NHS Foundation Trust
Community Mental Health Social Worker
The closing date is 30 August 2026
Job summary
Biggleswade CMHT provides compassionate person-centred interventions to people experiencing mental ill-health in Central Bedfordshire. .
The team is a multi-disciplinary team, with a strong social care presence and ethos.
You will be given expert support and advice from the team Senior Social Worker. The Senior Social Worker and Team Leader provide intensive support to ensure that bespoke professional supervision is readily available for all our social workers.
ELFT has a dedicated Social Care Lead locally in Central Bedfordshire. The Social Care Lead offers regular reflective practice sessions, bespoke advice and CPD opportunities.
The excellent work of the Social Work Learning and Development Project Lead ensures that continuous learning is at the heart of Social Work in Bedfordshire.
The Trust offers an established ASYE programme for newly qualified social workers. CPD pathways beyond the ASYE include AMHP/Leadership Academy/AMCP/Practice Educator/ASYE Assessor training structures. Bespoke training opportunities are available as part of your yearly appraisal.
In short; now is a good time to be working as a social worker for ELFT in Central Bedfordshire!
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