HEO Senior Mental Health Social Worker

HEO Senior Mental Health Social Worker

The closing date is 25 February 2026

Are you a highly skilled Senior Mental Health Social Worker, looking for an exciting and rewarding role? Are you seeking job satisfaction, numerous benefits, and training opportunities? Would you like your career to take a different direction into a friendly and professional organisation?

If the answer is yes, then you would be well‑suited to the senior Mental Health Social Worker role that we have at Healthcare Facility, RAF Brize Norton!

The vacant post is full time offering 37 hours per week. Requests to work flexibly and/or part time will be considered, taking into account business needs.

Could this be the role for you? If so, we'd love to hear from you!

• A Market Skills Allowance of £5,000 per annum (pro rata) will be offered to the successful candidate
• Access to learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%
• Free on‑site parking
• Professional registration fees re‑imbursed

Please be advised that the Department is conducting a review of all pay‑related allowances which could impact on those allowances that the post currently being advertised attracts.

The successful candidate will provide effective Mental Health Social Work (MHSW) in support of a designated Mental Health Team.

Our success depends on our people – our Whole Force – regular and reservist military, civil servants and contractors, all working as one, working together seamlessly to deliver for us.

Our civil servants are a central part of this Whole Force, developing strategy, making policy, supporting ministerial decision‑making and Parliamentary processes. In fact, with over 2,000 different roles working across 650 sites around the world, now really is an excellent time to join one of the largest most exciting departments in government.

The Ministry of Defence is committed to attracting and retaining people from across the full range of backgrounds and enabling flexible ways of working as the norm. We offer maternity, adoption or shared parental leave up to 26 weeks full pay followed by 13 weeks of statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid, and paternity leave of 2 weeks full pay.

In return, you can expect a department that helps you learn and develop that recognises your expertise and contribution, both as an individual and as part of a team.

If you've ever wanted to do more, see more, go further or be better, we have roles in more professions and vocations than ever before. Let's see where your future will take you, together.

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Duties and responsibilities for the role include but are not limited to:

• To provide effective Mental Health Social Work (MHSW) in support of a designated Department of Community Mental Health, Network, Defence Mental Health Social Work Service and the wider Defence Mental Health Services.
• Contribute to the development of service delivery, suggesting developmental initiatives in support of observations.
• Manage patient caseloads according to Defence Community Mental Health (DCMH) allocation processes and practices as directed by the clinical team lead / Manager and the MHSW Regional Lead.
• Support the management of the DCMH by providing direct delivery advice for MHSW to the DCMH line manager and/or the MHSW Regional Lead.
• Support management and DCMH by providing advice and support on safeguarding issues and practice as DCMH team Safeguarding Lead.
• Undertake such additional clinical/management tasks as may be appropriate to the grade and the role agreed in discussion with their line manager / Regional lead / Head of Service (HoS).

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for the full list of duties.

At application stage you will…