Senior Social Worker | Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust

Join our multidisciplinary team at Kent and Medway Adolescent Hospital providing vital mental health rehabilitation to children and young people aged 13 up until their 18th birthday. You'll deliver expert social work interventions to support young people with complex needs, enabling them to live independently.

The team works in close partnership with Children's Social Care to ensure each young person has the necessary resources available to enable them to engage in their rehab journey.

As a Senior Social Worker you will collaborate with OT's, Psychologists, Nurses and Doctors.

We are serious about diversity and inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from under-represented communities for our more senior roles, like this one.

As a Senior Social Worker, you will provide a high standard of support and care delivery with regards to social work needs to those service users whose ability to cope with the tasks of living are threatened or impaired by mental health issues, emotional, psychological and social problems.

You will work closely with other agencies, parents/families and individuals to support service users with a clear focus on recovery, social inclusion and social justice.

We are Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway and are rated ‘Good’ by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Our teams support children, young people and adults with a wide range of mental health needs. We also provide specialist services, including all-age eating disorder services and neurodevelopmental assessments for children and young people, such as autism and ADHD.

Because we work across the whole county and across hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the people we serve.

Our vision is simple

we are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It’s why we’re passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. Everything we do is guided by our values: caring, inclusive, curious and confident.

Join us if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that’s working well together.

Please refer to the attached job description for full details and main responsibilities of the role.

This advert closes on Monday 15 Jun 2026

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