Social Worker

Would you like to join an innovative, dynamic and ambitious team committed to delivering the best possible care for our service-users? The Enhanced Rehabilitation Outreach Service (EROS) is looking for a compassionate and enthusiastic Social Worker to welcome into our team as it takes part in an exciting expansion across East and North Hertfordshire.

EROS provides rehabilitation interventions and support to individuals with complex and enduring long term severe mental illness in the community.

The service provides a dedicated, integrated multi-disciplinary team of professionals, who aim to improve quality of life, promote hope, recovery, and individual resilience, and reduce reliance on crisis and inpatient services., As a new Social Worker, you'll join a supportive staff team that empowers one another to deliver the best care. A current Social Worker notes, "The EROS Team has been the best opportunity as a social worker... it's a chance to do pure social work, always involving progress and positive change."

The team uses a mini-team approach, placing service users and carers at the center to provide a holistic and consistent care pathway. Staff describe it as giving service users "a full rounded experience of different types of care" while remaining individualized and holistic.

EROS focuses on developing professional strengths, with access to professional networks and guidance from Senior Leadership across key disciplines. This includes the trust's only Consultant Occupational Therapist working in Rehabilitation services.

The team provides evidence-based, recovery-focused interventions through co-produced care plans that build resilience and improve wellbeing. These plans are tailored to meet individual cultural and social needs.

The service has improved care outcomes, supporting people to return to the community, avoid admissions, and reduce inpatient stays. It has been praised by the Royal College of Psychiatrists for its innovation and has been nominated for several national awards.

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from theCare Quality Commission.

Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout