Social Worker - Hospital Discharge

Liquid Personnel is recruiting Social Worker for its client's Hospital Discharge Team at Manchester.

What will your responsibilities be?

Provide timely, person-centred social work assessments to patients preparing for discharge from hospital.

Assess patients’ care and support needs and identify appropriate discharge pathways and support arrangements.

Work collaboratively with patients, families, carers and multidisciplinary teams to plan safe and effective discharges.

Coordinate discharge planning with health, social care, housing, community and voluntary sector services.

Complete Care Act assessments and develop appropriate care and support plans where required.

Undertake Mental Capacity Act assessments and contribute to best-interest decisions where appropriate.

Identify and respond to safeguarding concerns, ensuring appropriate action is taken to protect adults at risk.

Support patients and families to understand their options and make informed decisions about care and support.

Arrange and coordinate packages of care, reablement, rehabilitation, supported accommodation or other appropriate services.

Contribute to complex discharge planning, including cases involving multiple agencies, family dynamics or challenging circumstances.

Advocate for patients’ wishes, rights, dignity and independence throughout the discharge process.

Maintain accurate, timely and comprehensive case records in accordance with statutory and organisational requirements.

Attend and contribute to multidisciplinary meetings, discharge planning meetings and case discussions.

Manage a varied caseload effectively, prioritising urgent and high-risk cases.

Promote strengths-based and preventative approaches to reduce avoidable hospital admissions and support people to remain independent in the community.

Work in accordance with relevant legislation, professional standards, local policies and safeguarding procedures.

Develop effective working relationships with hospital staff, community teams, local authorities and external partner agencies.

Support timely discharge while ensuring that appropriate assessments, safeguards and support arrangements are in place.

Qualifications & Experience:

• To be successful in this role you must have, Social Work England registration
• Eligible to work in the UK
• Hold a full UK driving licence
• Post-qualified experience
• Degree level or equivalent in Social Work
• Why Liquid Personnel?
• Free DBS and compliance service
• Twice weekly payroll and ‘Faster Pay’ service, getting you paid more quickly
• Access to exclusive roles that aren’t available from other agencies
• Free access to Liquid’s exclusive social work training and CPD portal
• Your own dedicated consultant with extensive social work knowledge
• Access to a wide selection of social work positions across the UK
• “Refer a Friend” bonus – get £500 for each social worker you refer who we successfully place*
• “Find your own job” bonus – get £250 for bringing your own position to us *
• Liquid Personnel is an equal opportunities employer. Liquid Personnel Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. * Terms and conditions apply to our bonus schemes.
• Reasonable Adjustments: If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity by contacting our team. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.

We are unable to support or accept applications from candidates who are residents within the Red or Amber list of the Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England, based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) Workforce Support and Safeguard List.

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