Director of Social Work | Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

This is an exciting opportunity to work in an innovative Trust and be at the forefront of mental health and community innovation. The post holder will be accountable to the Chief Nursing Officer and will be responsible for leading on the development and implementation of Trust-wide professional and quality work programmes, ensuring that the Social Work contribution is recognised, rewarded and optimised.

This role will provide:

· Strategic leadership to develop the Social Work professions across the Trust's services and will ensure the provision of a high quality Social Work service;

· Professional leadership to Lead Social Workers within the Trust and provide expert advice and guidance on all professional Social Work issues to the Trust as a whole.

If required, the post holder will act as Deputy for the Chief Nursing Officer on matters related to Social Work across a range of duties within the organisation as agreed and when required.

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and welcome applications from underrepresented groups. In recruiting to our Trust, we are committed to equality of opportunity for all. We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We especially welcome applications from candidates from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic heritage, LGBTQ+ communities, and from people with lived experience of disability.

Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LSCFT) is the major health and wellbeing provider for a population of 1.7 million people across Lancashire and South Cumbria. We are proud to provide a wide range of mental health and learning disability services as well as physical health services in the community, including community nursing, health visiting and a range of therapy services. We employ over 7,000 members of staff operating in more than 400 sites with an annual budget of over £350 million. Our core values represent what we as an organisation, and the individuals who make up that organisation, are about. It is our aim that everything we do fits in with, and reinforces, these values: we are always learning, we are respectful, we are kind, and we are a team.