About this role
Job summary
We are recruiting for a Senior Renal Support Worker who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced and compassionate senior social worker to lead our renal social work service at the Lister Hospital, Stevenage.
The post holder will provide high-quality psychosocial support to renal patients and their families, while leading and developing renal social work services within a multidisciplinary team environment.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values:Include,Respect, andImprove. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
Main duties of the job
To carry out specialist psychosocial assessments in a variety of settings, inpatient and outpatient environments for patients with complex renal conditions.
To manage a complex caseload autonomously and provide expert advice to the wider renal team.
To lead professional development within the renal social work team and contribute to service improvement, education, audit and research activities.
To line manage band 6 roles within the renal social work team.
To work collaboratively with healthcare professionals, local authorities, charities and community agencies.
Advocate for patients' rights and assist with care planning, including end of life and advance care planning.
About us
At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
The Lister Hospital, Stevenage New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City Hertford County, Hertford Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Job description Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification information pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Degree or relevant qualification in Social Work
Previous Experience Essential
Experience of Adult Safeguarding Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team Experience of supporting patients with life-long or life-limiting conditions Experience of working across health and Social Care teams
Skills Essential
Ability to undertake advanced psychosocial assessments in complex situations Ability to manage complex caseload autonomously Ability to make decisions of uncertainty and risk Excellent communication skills in sensitive or distressing situations
Desirable
Ability to provide professional advice to MDT members
Other Requirements Essential
Experience and evidence of engagement around equality, diversity and inclusion issues in relation to policy, service development and service delivery in respect of both services to users and management of staff Role model our Trust values every day
Knowledge Essential
Statutory legislation and practice guidance (including Care Act, 2014, NHS and Community Care Act, Carers and Equality Opportunities Act, Mental Capacity Act 2005)
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
Address Lister Hospital
Coreys Mill Lane
Stevenage
SG1 4AB
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)