Adrian Sabo
Epsom And Ewell,Surrey
Summary
Dynamic and results-driven professional with a strong background in decision-making competence, dynamic leadership, and team motivation. Adept at strategic decision-making, clinical staff training and supervision, and conducting clinical risk assessments. Proficient in technical reporting and advanced Microsoft Office applications. Demonstrates initiative taking and time efficiency to drive organisational success. Committed to leveraging skills for continued professional growth and excellence in the healthcare sector.
Experienced professional with focus on team leadership and operational management. Excel in improving processes and driving team performance through strategic planning and effective communication. Deliver outstanding results by fostering collaborative work environment and implementing innovative solutions. With over 18 years of experience as a dedicated Qualified Social Worker in mental health service and former Deputy Manager of Wardown Team, I’ve quickly established talents in prioritising tasks, meeting deadlines and finding creative solutions to eliminate obstacles and to fulfilling daily demands. I am a motivated and enthusiastic individual looking to make a change both personally and for those I work with. I feel I have the right skills, knowledge and experience to competently take on and flourish in this role/traineeship. In-depth knowledge of the legislation relevant to the field of Social Work such as: Equality Act 2010, The Care Act 2014/2015, Mental Health Act 1983, Mental Capacity Act 2005-Depravation of Liberty Safeguard (DoLS procedure), Human Rights 1998, S9-Assessment of an adult’s needs of care and support, Section 2 of MHA 1983, Section 3 of MHA 1983, Section 42 of Care Act, Section. 117- hospital discharge MHA 1983, NHS Continuing Health Care Checklist (CHC), NHS Decision Support Tool (DST), Community Treatment Order Mental Health Act/ CTO-Recall to Hospital, Section 37/41-Social Supervision-Ministry of Justice.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
9
9
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Deputy Manager
East London Foundation Trust
Luton, United Kingdom
2018.05 - 2021.08
- Managed the day-to-day operations of Wardown CMHT while collaborating with operational manager to implement service developments safely and effectively.
- Responsible for ensuring safe and effective management of all team operations, managing the core team responsibilities and trouble-shooting operational problems;
- Supporting staff to take complex decisions regarding the safeguarding procedures related to vulnerable adults, planning, development and implementation of the programmes of care;
- Responsible to provide professional leadership for safeguarding;
- Responsible for developing and implementing effective safeguarding strategies, ensuring it reflects current Luton & Bedfordshire safeguarding priorities; ensure that all statutory duties to safeguarding are actively managed and ensure that all statutory duties relating to safeguarding are actively managed and fulfilled at all times;
- Responsible for conducting safeguarding inquiries; setting up the safeguarding risk management and protection plans and meeting the deadlines;
- Act as senior key contact within Wardown CMHT for all aspects of safeguarding
- Responsible for promoting partnership working and assume lead responsibility to work with other agencies to ensure safe and effective safeguarding systems for adults;
- Responsible to ensure representation of the organisation as a member of the multi-agency Bedfordshire Safeguarding Adults Board;
- Ensure active representation at Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conference (MARAC) as required by law, to ensure a co-ordinated community/service response to abuse;
- Ensure systems are in place to monitor the effectiveness of delegate statutory responsibilities for safeguarding for adults and vulnerable adults in Wardown CMHT;
- Responsible to effectively lead and manage Wardown CMHT to ensure contribution to and delivery of corporate objectives;
- Responsible to work collaboratively with other system leaders to support workforce activities, increase recruitment and retention of clinical and non-clinical staff;
- Participate in relevant internal and external working groups/projects, services and initiatives to provide project, information and analytical advice and expertise and liaise with other Managers/ Deputy Managers to share best practice;
- Responsible to manage the effective delivery of all functions of the team, ensuring the robust arrangements are in place to support service users, carers and partner organisations;
- Provide leadership and supervision; Ensuring the existence of the supervision systems for social workers and support workers within Wardown CMHT;
- Responsible for the management of the team caseload, overseeing referrals and the allocation of service users to a care coordinator/ clinical staff, ensuring that care packages are maintained under the auspices of Care Plan Approach programme;
- Responsible for taking the lead role in maintaining team systems and processes for the effective operation on the team, including audits in relation to clinical effectiveness, service quality and the development of action plan in light of findings;
- Ensuring that MCA, Care Act Needs Assessments, care packages, CHC and DST are properly conducted in accordance with the standards and norms required in the process of structuring and implementing service-users care plans, as well as their timely reviews useful;
- Monitoring and applying CPA (Care Plan Approach Program) and health care management systems. Ensuring that in the process of implementing the care plans, the team uses in the day-to-day practice the person-centred approach model;
- Monitoring of the annual leave, sick leave and team performance and recruitment in accordance with the relevant policies and procedures of the East London Foundation Trust and the local Council;
- Directly responsible to provide guidance and initiation of the newly recruited staff;
- Recruiting and interviewing candidates for vacancies within the team;
- Ensuring that team members have the knowledge and the necessary skills to interact effectively with service-users and to ensure that any training or development needs of team staff are identified; also, ensuring the participation of all staff in the mandatory training provided by East London Foundation Trust;
- Ensuring the existence of clinical and non-clinical risk management plans for team members, as well as the management of the back-up system and archiving of the implemented risk management systems;
- Ensuring that serious or inappropriate incidents including the safeguarding incidents or complaints are reported through appropriate internal mechanisms; Direct responsible to investigate serious or inappropriate incidents and implement action plans/safeguarding plans within the service. Ensuring that all other clinical governance systems are in place;
- Responsible for motivating and supporting team members through periods of change or development of the service and act as a change agent;
- Responsible for building, consolidating and developing working relationships with other partner agencies/services
- Maintaining the monitoring systems in order to ensure that team performance markers are met in a timely manner
- Compliance with clinical and non-clinical policies within the East London Foundation Trust and ensuring that they are implemented within the team;
- Directly responsible for managing the internal development and transformation projects of the local community mental health service in Luton, Bedfordshire and participating in external projects within the East London Foundation Trust;
- Community Mental Health Team
- Grade: Band 7
- Salary: Charter House, Alma Street, Luton, Bedfordshire, post code LU1 2PJ, United Kingdom
- Period of notice: 90 days
- Reason for leaving (if applicable): Returning back to Romania due to some family responsibilities. I had to look after my grandparents and provide them with care and support until my mother retired from her job in France and returned back to Romania.
Qualified Mental Health Social Worker
East London Foundation Trust
Luton, United Kingdom
2015.02 - 2018.03
- Directly responsible for coordinating a variety of cases, most of them complex cases that require a holistic approach of social intervention and the implementation of a comprehensive care plan in a given period of time;
- Responsible for the management and supervision of the junior staff, especially newly qualified/ recent recruited social workers and student social workers;
- Identifying crisis/emergency situations that require urgent intervention in community in a given period of time, along with referrals triage for CRHT, AMHP, Early Intervention Family Team or Emergency Duty Team;
- Responsible for creating and implementing care packages and coordinating their funding process, involving the Luton Borough Council and other state funding institutions such as NHS England, the Local Clinical Commissioning Group of Luton and other non-governmental organisations;
- Undertaking Care Act Needs Assessments, initial assessments, annual care package reviews, CPA reviews, urgent reviews and risk assessment; also, responsible for undertaking the assessments of the Single Point of Access, care assessments and mental capacity assessments for cases that require referrals for Deprivation of Liberty Safeguard and identifying situations in which DOLS needs a decision from the Court of Protection. Carrying out NHS Continuing Health Care Checklist (CHC), NHS Decision Support Tool (DST). Providing support to the Responsible Psychiatric Consultant throughout the hospital recall order under Community Treatment Order provision;
- Preparing the Community Treatment Order mandatory conditions reflected in service-user’s individual care plan in order to facilitate the hospital discharge;
- Responsible to set up and implement risk management plans and contingency plans, individual care plans, relapse prevention plans, hospital discharge plans and safeguarding plans;
- Dealing with cases that required SOVA investigation and provide support in the untoward incident safeguarding investigation undertook by multi-agency using a root cause analysis approach, analysing, disseminating and implementing lessons learnt. This includes SAR, SCR, DHR and LLR and also includes section 42 work, MCA DOLS and advice. Obtain analyses and interpret information for key performance indicators and use sound judgement and critical thinking in assessing conflicting priorities and needs;
- Preparing of Social Circumstances reports and inquiries for the Court and participation in court hearings for service-users formally admitted to psychiatric wards under Section 2 and Section 3 of Mental Health Act 1983 and for service users formally admitted to forensic units under Section 37/41, Section 48 and 49 of Mental Health Act 1983 (hospital order given by the Court and recall to hospital, Social Supervision-Ministry of Justice and Community Treatment Order);
- Responsible for implementing care packages under Section 117 after care-Care Act 1986 and NHS Continuous Health Care Ensuring that the values set out in the NHS Constitution are met on a daily basis and any issues/ concerns are made available to the Chief Operating Officers through the Trust’s reporting processes as well as the continued delivery and maintenance of high standards of service delivery and respectful to service-users at all times;
- Ensuring the fulfilment of national objectives and standards based on the legislative framework and the fulfilment of monthly targets;
- Participation in the process of auditing the team’s performance and the process of developing and implementing new policies and procedures related to the prevision of social work services within the trust;
- Ensuring the patients receive a full service from a cultural point of view;
- Establishing and maintaining partnership relations with service users and the voluntary sector;
- Ensuring and promoting partnership relations with GP (General Practitioners) and surgeries across Luton and Bedfordshire;
- Implementing local demographic data, ensuring the information is taken into account for service delivery and improvement;
- Responsible for providing training for student social workers according to the instructions of the Deputy Manager;
- Coordinating the daily activity and managing the workload of the team in the absence of the Deputy Manager;
- Community Mental Health Team
- Grade: Band 6
- Salary: -
- Period of notice: 60 days
- Reason for leaving (if applicable): Starting the Band 7 role as a Deputy Manager
Clinical Support Worker
St. Benedict Nursing & Residential Home
Glastonbury, United Kingdom
2013.05 - 2015.01
- Administering medication and arranging medical appointments;
- Delivering and serving of “meals on wheels” when required;
- Helping service users with mobility problems including incontinence;
- Providing advice and emotional support to clients;
- Assistance with activities such as reading, writing, hobbies and recreations;
- Taking part in staff and service users’ meetings and also in training activities;
- Reporting to supervisors any changes in the health/ circumstances of service users;
- Updating client’s medical records and other paperwork;
- Helping service users to look after their own health;
- Transporting service users to local amenities;
- Assistance with mobility and transfers, using any specialised equipment provided when required;
- Health Care Services
- Grade: -
- Salary: -
- Period of notice: 30 days
- Reason for leaving (if applicable): Starting the Band 6 role in February 2015. Relocation to Luton, Bedfordshire, UK.
Key Worker
St Matthews Health Care
Kingsthorpe, Northampton, United Kingdom
2011.06 - 2013.01
- Undertakes specified clinical activities and tests for named patients, within scope of established clinical protocols, policies and procedures;
- Acts as chaperone for patients as required, preserving patient’s dignity;
- Undertakes a range of clinical support functions including preparing and stocking clinical areas in line with Practice protocols;
- Provides relevant health information to patients and carers within defined protocols;
- Orders and maintains stock of Health Information Leaflets/literature;
- Assists in maintaining safe working environment for self, patients, carers and multi-disciplinary team, alerting other members of Practice team to issues of quality and risk identified in work with patients;
- Orders and maintains stocks for dressings and equipment as directed;
- Monitoring patients’ conditions by taking temperatures, pulse, respirations and weight;
- Health Care Services
- Grade: -
- Salary: -
- Period of notice: 30 days
- Reason for leaving (if applicable): Returning back to Romania for few months due to some family responsibilities. Starting a new job at St. Benedict Nursing & Residential Home in Glastonbury, UK in May 2013.
Assistant Manager
General Imob.SRL
Zalau City, Romania
2009.02 - 2011.06
- Presentation of real estate offers;
- Providing informational support and advising clients on market conditions, prices, mortgages, legal requirements and related issues;
- Accompanying clients during visits and inspections of the property, advising them on the adequacy and value of the property (s) they are visiting;
- Responsible for preparation of documents such as representation and purchase contracts, closing statements, deeds and leases;
- Interviewing customers to determinate the type of properties sought ;
- Generating property lists that are compatible with customers’ financial needs and resources ;
- Displaying commercial, industrial, agricultural and residential properties and providing information on their characteristics;
- Examination of property lists, trade journals and relevant literature, participation in conventions, seminars and meetings of staff and associations to stay informed about real estate markets;
- Analysis of customers’ financial and credit situation to determinate eligibility for financing as well as property valuation to determine loan values;
- Arranging meetings between buyers and sellers when transaction details need to be negotiated
- Visiting properties to evaluate them before showing them to customers;
- Examining plans for new constructions with customers, listing and recommending available options and features;
- Real Estate
- Grade: -
- Salary: -
- Period of notice: 30 days
- Reason for leaving (if applicable): Relocating to UK. Starting a new job at St Matthews Health Care, Northampton, UK.
Qualified Social Worker
Emergency County Hospital of Zalau City
Zalau City, Romania
2007.09 - 2009.01
- Conducting needs assessments and surveys for inpatients in mental health units and Emergency Department of General Hospital in Zalau city;
- Undertaking and writing up assessments that meet specified standards and timescales, conducting interviews with service users and their families to assess and review their situation, and offering information and counselling support to service users and their families;
- Offering or arranging counselling or support to service users & their families;
- Making decisions on the process of institutionalisation in social protection centres or residential homes, formulating recommendations on care packages for discharging patients in community, as well as coordinating the process of financing them, involving the Council;
- Preparation of reports/ social investigations for Court of Protection of Zalau Municipality and preparation in court hearings of patients transferred from penitentiary hospitals to psychiatric wards of Zalau County Hospital;
- Keeping both manual and electronic records and databases up to date;
- Formulating social intervention plans and initiating actions to reduce the number of cases in Emergency Department in which minors and elderly are abandoned;
- Ensuring and supplying information and specialised counselling services to beneficiaries;
- Developing intervention projects for each social case;
- Representing social services in relation to local authorities, other institutions, non-governmental organisations;
- Initiating action for reducing the number of cases in which minors and elderly persons are abandoned;
- Identifying social cases (large families, pregnant women, single mothers, abandoned children, elderly persons without support, persons belonging to other at-risk groups, etc.)
- Identifying persons that do not have IDs and initiating urgent legal action to help them receive IDs or ID substitute Identifying mothers or families which present potential risks of infant and child abandonment in hospitals;
- Performing social investigations on each social case and identifying and implementing adequate social methods;
- Individual and/or group counselling for beneficiaries and/or their dependents or their families;
- Participating in field investigations in order to identify potential social cases and collaborating with authorities;
- Collaboration with other institution for measures related to institutionalisation and social reintegration of targeted persons;
- Participating in training process of future social workers;
- Collaborating in investigations regarding the integration of minors into their own families or, if necessary, through placement with other families;
- Participating in the process of training future social workers;
- Collaborating with non-governmental organisations for developing programmes addressed to the target groups (alcoholics, drug users, homeless minors, etc.)
- Informing beneficiaries or their dependents with regard to their rights according to enforced legislation, as well as with regard to existing social protection units
- Supporting and defending the rights of the service-users;
- Mental Health Services
- Grade: Senior Social Worker
- Salary: -
- Period of notice: 30 days
- Reason for leaving (if applicable): Supporting my family business.
Education
NVQ- National Vocational Qualification - Social Care
City And Guilds of London Institute
Northampton, Northamptonshire 2011.07 - 2012.08
Bachelor’s Degree - Social Work & Sociology
Babes Bolyai University
City Cluj-Napoca, County Cluj, Romania 2003.10 - 2007.07
High school Graduate/ General Certificate of Education - Sociology And Art Design
Gheorghe Sincai Highschool
Zalau City, Romania 1999.09 - 2003.06
Skills
- Decision-making competence
- Strategic decision-making
- Clinical risk assessment
- Technical reporting
- Time efficiency
- Advanced Microsoft Office
- Strong communication and writing skills
- Holistic approach
- Adult safeguarding
- Person-Centred practices
- Case assessment
- Record keeping accuracy
- Psychosocial support
- Knowledge of social policy
- Psychiatric social work
- Multidisciplinary teamwork
- Care planning
- Administrative duties
- Mental health support
- Crisis Intervention
- Active listening
- Confidential documentation and record-keeping
- Excellent interpersonal skills
Accomplishments
· Winner of the 2019 Service User Award from NHS East London Foundation Trust for the best community reshaping project;
· December 2020 - I obtained the 2-year accreditation of the team I led from the NHS-East London Foundation Trust with the highest score, being awarded the title of “Gold level of accreditation” from the Service User Led Accreditation process supported by the Ministry of Health, this title having national recognition in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Training courses attended
Statutory and Mandatory NHS training ELFT 2021
Languages
English
Fluent
Romanian
Native
Professional registration
- Professional registration: Qualified Social Worker
- Professional body: Social Work England
- Membership / Registration number SW95888
- Expiry / renewal date 2026-11-30
Further qualifications
- Further qualifications
- Please provide details of any proposed further qualifications
- Quality Improvement (QI) Project - Improvement Leaders Programme Course provided by East London Foundation Trust in 2020
Gaps in employment
- Gaps in employment
- If you have any gaps within your employment history, please state the reasons for the gaps below.
- In September 2021 I had to return back Romania due to some family responsibilities. In fact, I had to look after my grandparents and provide them with care and support until my mother retired from her job in France and returned back to Romania at the end of November 2025. Currently my mother is looking after my grandparents and I am willing to return back in NHS.
Timeline
Deputy Manager
East London Foundation Trust
2018.05 - 2021.08
Qualified Mental Health Social Worker
East London Foundation Trust
2015.02 - 2018.03
Clinical Support Worker
St. Benedict Nursing & Residential Home
2013.05 - 2015.01
NVQ- National Vocational Qualification - Social Care
City And Guilds of London Institute
2011.07 - 2012.08
Key Worker
St Matthews Health Care
2011.06 - 2013.01
Assistant Manager
General Imob.SRL
2009.02 - 2011.06
Qualified Social Worker
Emergency County Hospital of Zalau City
2007.09 - 2009.01
Bachelor’s Degree - Social Work & Sociology
Babes Bolyai University
2003.10 - 2007.07
High school Graduate/ General Certificate of Education - Sociology And Art Design
Gheorghe Sincai Highschool
1999.09 - 2003.06