Job vacancy: Family Support Social Worker, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Sutton

Job summary

Main area: Children's Unit
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract: Fixed term: 12 months (12 months)
Hours: Part time - 22.5 hours per week
Job ref: 282-C1246035

Employer: The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: The Royal Marsden Hospital Sutton
Town: Sutton
Salary: £40,701 - £48,054 per annum incl. HCAS (PRO-RATA)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 17/07/2024 23:59

Family Support Social Worker

NHS AfC: Band 6

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification:

The team also provides on treatment support for complex pain and symptoms. They also have a close working relationship with paediatric drug development team to support children entering clinical and drug trials.
The service has a well-established regular bereaved parents group which contributes to the paediatric palliative care service development and research.
The service provides symptom care support to any child, on or off treatment, with complex symptoms and facilitates provision of palliative care in all settings. Often the service provides a dual model of care approach with palliative care supporting alongside on-going curative or treatment targeted options. At the time of transition to palliation when symptoms are beginning to impact, a palliative care multidisciplinary team meeting is held at the Royal Marsden. When the child’s condition starts to develop significant symptoms, or they are entering the deteriorating phase of their illness, a GP meeting at the family’s GP surgery is held with local services and family members (if they wish to attend). The GP meeting is held in order to identify roles and responsibilities and co-ordinate community and acute services (if required) to ensure care is delivered to meet the child or young person’s needs. Advance care, symptom management and emergency care plans are completed, as appropriate, for children receiving palliation and end of life care.

Person specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential criteria

Current Social Work England registration
DipSW, degree or equivalent
Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience
Evidence of on-going professional development

Desirable criteria

Counselling qualification

Experience

Essential criteria

Experience of working as a children’s social worker in a local authority
Experience of working with adults at risk
Experience of working with individuals facing or experiencing bereavement
Experience in working with loss and grief
Experience of independent working/managing own caseload

Desirable criteria

Experience in palliative care, complex care or disability
Teaching experience/qualification

Skills Abilities/knowledge

Desirable criteria

Supervision training/experience
Experience of facilitating therapeutic group work with family members

Other Requirements

Essential criteria

Flexibility to meet the needs of the service
Hold a current UK driving licence and able to travel as part of the role

Skills Abilities/knowledge

Essential criteria

Excellent communication skills – written and verbal
Ability to evaluate complex psychosocial needs of children and their family
Working knowledge of current social policy/legislation, welfare rights and benefits for adults and children
Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team
IT skills
Ability to communicate highly sensitive information
Ability to assess highly complex situations
Ability to recognise and manage one’s own stress

The Royal Marsden values diversity and is committed to the recruitment and retention of underrepresented minority groups. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates and candidates with disabilities.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are working to create a workplace that enables all staff to reach their full potential. We are committed to this because we know that greater diversity and inclusion will lead to an even greater positive impact for the people we serve.

Due to the high volumes of applications we receive, we reserve the right to close any adverts before the published closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications. We advise you to submit your application as early as possible to prevent disappointment.

All applicants will be contacted by email to the address supplied on your application. Applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly and to ensure that email filters are set to allow our emails.

Flu Vaccination – What We Expect of our Staff

At The Royal Marsden we have an immune compromised patient population who we must protect as much as we can against the flu virus. Each year, seasonal flu affects thousands of people in the UK. Occurring mainly in winter, it is an infectious respiratory disease capable of producing symptoms ranging from those similar to a common cold, through to very severe or even fatal disease.

The wellbeing of our staff and patients is of the upmost importance to us, and it is the expectation of The Royal Marsden that all patient-facing staff have an annual flu vaccination, provided free of charge by the Trust.

London Living Wage is a voluntary commitment made by employers, who can become accredited with the Living Wage Foundation

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name: Lucy Coombes
Job title: Lead Nurse CYP Outreach and Symptom Care
Email address: [email protected]

If you have problems applying, contact

Address: Recruitment Support
Open Monday to Friday
08:30 am to 17:30pm
Telephone: 01629 690 825

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Family Support Social Worker

NHS AfC: Band 6

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Person specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential criteria

Desirable criteria

Experience

Essential criteria

Desirable criteria

Skills Abilities/knowledge

Desirable criteria

Other Requirements

Essential criteria

Skills Abilities/knowledge

Essential criteria

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