Newly Qualified Social Worker

Overview

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Introduction

Are you a graduating or recently qualified social worker? We are recruiting Newly Qualified Social Workers to launch their careers in our adult mental health teams and we want to hear from applicants who bring energy, integrity, fresh ideas – and a real commitment to empowering Lewisham’s mental health service-users and their carers.

What’s the role?

Lewisham Council works closely with South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) and voluntary sector partners to provide integrated innovative mental health services for working-age adults. Our mental health social workers play key roles in neighbourhood-based multi-disciplinary teams across the borough. They provide a strong social care voice, working alongside colleagues from the NHS and voluntary sector. Some are based in fast-paced Primary Care Mental Health Teams carrying out rapid assessments and brief interventions, others in Community Mental Health Teams providing longer-term holistic care coordination for people living with serious mental health conditions.

What’s in it for you?

We provide excellent training and development opportunities, plus a range of benefits including:

• Assessed and Supported Year in Employment (ASYE) programme for our NQSWs with protected high-quality supervision, peer support and protection caseloads
• Opportunities to pursue specialist career pathways including Practice Education, Adult Safeguarding, and AMHP training
• Generous holiday allowance
• Local Government Pension scheme
• Flexible working and family-friendly policies
• Season ticket and bicycle loans
• A range of staff discounts including local subsidised gym memberships
• Supportive staff networks
• A managers’ development programme

What We’re Looking For

We need positive and energetic team players who want to get stuck in and make a real difference in the lives of Lewisham residents. The right applicants will:

• inspire and motivate those they work with
• be professionally curious and authentically interested in our community
• value the importance of communication and honest feedback
• commit to delivering excellent service
• adopt an empowering strengths-based approach to their practice
• work collaboratively within an integrated multi-disciplinary setting
• demonstrate sound legal literacy

Location

At sites across the borough.

Special conditions

• Relevant experience of working in a mental health setting is essential for this role.
• Offers will be conditional on confirmation of successful qualification and registration with Social Work England.
• The job is subject to an enhanced DBS check

The recruitment process is anonymous and we don’t accept CVs. Applicant handbook – please read the guidance in this handbook when applying. It is essential that you complete the application fully and that your supporting statement covers how you meet each of the person specification criteria listed.

For an informal discussion about this job, please contact Evelyn Semple evelyn.semple@slam.nhs.uk.

Please click here to view the Job Description and Person Specification.

Salary

£42,264 per annum NQSW (SCP 26). N.B: All appointments will be offered at the minimum spinal column point (SCP) for the grade of the role. The only exception to this will be when matching current salary (up to the maximum of the scale), which is subject to evidential proof.

Diversity

Lewisham Council is a Disability Confident employer. We welcome and encourage job applications of all abilities. If you require any reasonable adjustments in the application or interview, please contact the lead contact on this advert. We will make reasonable adjustments to make sure our disabled applicants and those with health conditions are supported throughout our recruitment process. We support the access to work scheme; further details are available at www.gov.uk/access-to-work/apply.

The Council has a dedicated employment support service, Lewisham Works, which offers Lewisham residents guidance in relation to applying for jobs. If you want to join Lewisham Works, please email JobsAndSkills@lewisham.gov.uk and an advisor will be in touch with you.

The Council reserves the right to close adverts early if there is a large response.

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