Bhsct Senior Social Work Practitioner Mdt Band 7

Advertised role location: BALLYOWEN HEALTH CENTRE

Official document:
Band 7 Senior Social Work Practitioner MDT September 2026 (docx)

JOB DESCRIPTION

Post:
Primary Care Social Worker:
Senior Practitioner

Grade:
Band 7

Directorate:
Adults Community and Older People

Reports to:

Social Work Lead for Primary Care Social Work

Location:

Belfast GP practices

Hours:

37.5 hours. This post will require some flexibility in working hours depending on the needs of individual service users and local communities.

The post holder will provide the social work role in multi-disciplinary primary care teams based in GP practices. Primary care multi-disciplinary teams are a new service aimed at enhancing the services available to people at primary care level. These teams are intended to deliver the vision set out in Delivering Together of an increased emphasis on a holistic model of health and wellbeing which includes physical, mental and social wellbeing with a greater focus on prevention and early intervention.

The social worker in these teams will contribute social work relationship-based, person-centred and systems focused assessments and interventions to the work of the team. The social workers will concentrate on the social determinants of health and well‑being and will tackle health and social inequalities by resilience and resource building with individuals, groups and communities. The post holder will be community facing and will use social work community development approaches.

The post holder will also know and understand Trust services and will provide advice and guidance to other multi-disciplinary team members on Trust pathways and Trust thresholds for intervention. The post holders will be generic social workers and will work primarily with people who are not eligible for or availing of Trust services.

Provide individual time-limited social work assessments and interventions as necessary. Provide expert input in areas of social well-being and social determinants of health such as poverty, loneliness, adverse childhood experiences, social relationships and meaningful activities.

Support service users to identify, shape and manage their own health and well-being needs using a strengths‑based approach. Support service users to develop resilience.

Support service users to keep safe and well. Assess risk for service users as appropriate and take appropriate action.

Use social prescribing as appropriate to support access to community based resources.

Develop and deliver group-work interventions as appropriate.

Develop and maintain an understanding of local factors affecting health and well‑being.

Develop and maintain a detailed knowledge of community resources available in the local area.

Develop and maintain a knowledge of and links with Trust services.

Provide advice and guidance to primary care multi-disciplinary team colleagues about the full range of Trust pathways for social work and social care and support.

Provide advice and guidance to primary care multi-disciplinary team colleagues about thresholds for Trust services, including risk thresholds for child and adult safeguarding.

Participate in multi-disciplinary team meetings in primary care and necessary management meetings within Trusts.

Work in co‑production with the local community and other stakeholders to support and grow community capacity and resources that meets the needs of the local population.

Inform and assist senior Trust management and other agency management in strategic planning for population health and well‑being.

Provide representation on any appropriate fora in relation to community well‑being and development.

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