Perinatal Social Worker

There is an exciting opportunity to join the growing social work workforce within Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust. Social Workers play a crucial part in improving mental health outcomes for individuals, through understanding the social detriments of mental health and using a human rights approach. This requires advanced relationship-based skills focused on personalisation and strength-based working, to support people to make positive, self-directed change.

The successful candidate will work as a social worker in the multi-disciplinary Perinatal Community Mental Health Team. This involves supporting a caseload of individuals' who are experiencing social barriers, such as housing, domestic violence and isolation, to recovery by applying social work and psychoeducation interventions and representing the social work and social perspective in the team. Further training and supervision is available to support your growth in the role.

A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010.

Main duties of the job

Due to significant investment as part of the NHS Long Term Plan ambitions, we are delighted to offer another Social Worker post within the Nottinghamshire Perinatal Mental Health Services.

Nottinghamshire Perinatal Community Mental Health Team is a multidisciplinary and well-established service providing a range of tailored approaches to meet the mental health needs of women and their families in the perinatal period.

We are co-located on the Hopewood site with Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services. The Team provides a service to the City and County of Nottinghamshire and Bassetlaw with clinics located across this geography.

#TeamNottsHC comprises over 11,000 dedicated colleagues who #MakeADifference every day. We deliver intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic, and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire. Our care is provided from over 200 sites, spanning community locations, acute settings, and secure environments, including prisons.

We are one of the largest mental health and community Trusts in the East Midlands and one of Nottinghamshire's biggest employers. We also host national and regional services, such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.

We offer a variety of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) groups, the Green Champions network, the Freedom to Speak Up network, the Health and Wellbeing Champions network, and the Menopause Champions network. These networks play a vital role in supporting our diverse workforce and promoting a culture of inclusivity.

The health and wellbeing of our colleagues is a top priority. We invest significantly in this through our in-house occupational health and staff counselling services, supported by a dedicated Health and Wellbeing team.

The Trust is committed to reducing its carbon emissions, with a specialised Energy and Environmental team working to ensure compliance with environmental legislation, enhance our environmental performance, and achieve our net-zero commitment