Social Worker – Adult Hospital Discharge Team

Global Healthcare Jobs, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker within the Adult Hospital Discharge Team to work Full Time in Berkshire.

The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £41,418per annum.

Main duties:

• To take part in the link worker role by carrying out bedside assessments and arranging packages of care for safe discharges. To be part of the duty rota system covering several days a week in the hospital setting and responding to referrals as and when received.
• Overseeing and monitoring the discharge of patients from acute hospitals, to ensure that any delays are fed back to the office/providers and chased daily.
• To continue to develop and maximise the benefits of links with services provided in the NHS, voluntary and private sectors to ensure that customers receive the best possible support at the earliest stage.
• To make decisions regarding the referral of cases to appropriate services and clinicians to best meet individual need.
• Provide formal supervision, advice and support to the acute team to ensure that effective and sound decisions are made.
• To manage systems that ensure risks to vulnerable adults are maximised.
• Ensure that a customer focused service us provided, monitor and resolve customer satisfaction.
• To work with the managers to continue to develop working relationships with hospital and other health services to provide clients with an integrated service.
• Support in the management of team members to identify and direct in cases of safeguarding, Best Interest, and Capacity assessments and to liaise appropriately with the Safeguarding and DOLS team.
• To work with Team Manager and Assistant Team Manager to develop and implement service improvements to meet high volume of referrals, specifically to manage the prioritisation process for all incoming work.
• Work with the team to adapt to changing circumstances and provide innovative services that meet needs of customers.
• Provide professional support on a day to day basis to Hospital Discharge Team, a combination of qualified social workers and case coordinators.
• Support Assistant Team Manager in ensuring these staff receive induction, supervision and appraisal.
• To ensure that the team use resources effectively by making appropriate judgements regarding the provision of information, advice, dealing with simple short term interventions and referring to other teams.
• Build on the organisation’s understanding of its market and customers and how they complement and affect the services you are responsible for.
• The post holder shares in the wider responsibility of ensuring that Public Funds are used wisely and effectively.

Requirements of this Social Worker role:

• A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Registered or eligible for registration.

Benefits:

• Flexible working wherever possible between the hours of 07.00-19.00
• Hybrid working wherever possible working 40% in the office
• Access to a wide range of training and development opportunities
• Generous Local Government pension scheme
• Family friendly policies
• A range of local discounts
• Wellbeing Programme including Employee Assistance Programme and employee benefits
• You will also be entitled to a generous annual leave entitlement starting at 29 days per annum (plus public holidays) Rising by an additional 5 days after 5 years’ service.

Contact:
This Social Worker job is advertised by Zehnn Young; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients’ requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Global Healthcare Jobs is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.

Global Healthcare Jobs takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Global Healthcare Jobs is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

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. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.