Hospital Progress to Discharge Social Worker

Location Hull
Job type Permanent
Salary £33,945 - 36,648 per year
Consultant Zehnn Young
Call +44 7723 457338
Reference 213042

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for an Adult Social Worker within the Hospital Progress to Discharge Team to work full time based in Hull.

The salary for this permanent Adult Social Worker job is up to £36,648 per annum.

Main duties:

  • To promote and safeguard the welfare of adults at risk, families and their carers, within the ‘making safeguarding personal’ principles.
  • Undertake proportionate assessments, determine eligibility, and assess risk. Plan care and support and make the best use of available resources to enable people to live the life they choose. To ensure people are given correct financial advice and information about charging processes of the council.
  • Works in partnership with Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy utilising their expertise in the assessment and review process. To assess, identify and source low level OT equipment where this could support an individual to live independently or as part of a wider packages of care.
  • Engages in critical reflection and constrictive challenge within the course of working with colleagues, other agencies and with vulnerable adults and families.
  • Actively engages in team meetings/practice forums and other relevant meetings ensuring focused and purposeful social work is undertaken with all cases.
  • Works with colleagues in the team to ensure the form of communications are clear and aligned with people’s needs. Demonstrate effective use of evidence-based social work practice. To ensure effective communication with people who have specific communication needs including learning disability, dementia, people who lack capacity and people with sensory impairment.
  • Engages in and advises on the professional decision-making process with adults at risk, families and their carers, and colleagues in relation to complex/high risk cases.
  • Prepares for and attends court as required in relation to specific cases where the engagement of legal processes is necessary.
  • Engages in and advises on the professional decision-making process with adults at risk, families and their carers, and colleagues in relation to complex/high risk cases.
  • Actively supports and engages in practice development groups and the provision of information/professional opinion as required e.g. for policy amendments, newly developed ways of working.
  • Take a leadership role in managing the daily actively of the team, i.e. allocation, duty work.

Requirements of this Adult Social Worker role:

  • A professional Social Work qualification or equivalent.
  • Understanding of relevant legislation.
  • Registered or eligible for registration.

Contact:
This Adult 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, Sanctuary Personnel 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.

Sanctuary 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, Sanctuary 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.