Social Work within the Trust is a diverse and rewarding career, where you have a real chance to make a difference to people's lives. Our Social Workers play a critical role in improving the overall wellbeing and mental health for our patients, their families and networks and their community. Our wide range of social work roles provide unique opportunities to build on their specialist skillset.
Our Social Workers are based in all Mental Health Services across the children and families, adults and older persons divisions within a range of settings in the community, inpatient care, forensic services and specialist teams such as Perinatal.
We encourage and advocate that Social Workers bring their professional training, core skills and value base, perspectives and specialist knowledge on legal literacy and strengths- based intervention to the multi- disciplinary teams working alongside other health colleagues and in partnership with our patients.
Hampshire and Isle of Wight NHS Foundation Trust are committed to the development of the Social Work profession and to high quality delivery of services.
We have recently introduced the ASYE programme to all new registrants in conjunction with Skills for Care. All new Band 5 Social Workers registered with Social Work England (up to 2 years post qualifying/ registration) will be able to access our mental health specific ASYE programme.
Our programme is designed to provide regular and targeted support and development to develop and support your transition from student to professional Social Worker. Band 5 roles include Care Co-Ordinator and Mental Health Practitioner, and the list of core qualifications needed can be found in the job advert.
Regular focused time with CPD opportunities, guest speakers and time to connect with other Social Workers across the Trust.
Regular updates from the Professional Lead for Social Work outlining opportunities, celebrating successes, practice related topics and support.
We are delighted to be holding our first Trust wide Social Work conference in conjunction with Social Work Day with Social Workers from across the Trust joining together for a celebration event with Senior Leaders and Directors.
Development opportunities for Practice Education, AMHP and BIA (Dols) as standard alongside specialist opportunities such as NHS Leadership Programmes, legal literacy and access to specialist modules through our local Universities.
We are delighted to be partnering with Think Ahead once again for the training and development of Mental Health Social Workers. To explore more about the Think Ahead Programme please, see their website by clicking here. |
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Further Information
Contact our Recruitment teams
- Southern Health: recruitment@southernhealth.nhs.uk
- Solent Trust: recruitment@solent.nhs.uk