The posting
Liquid Personnel is recruiting Senior Social Worker for its client's Integrated Community Assessment Team at Telford.
This is an excellent opportunity for a highly skilled practitioner to work within a hospital-based multidisciplinary team, supporting adults with complex care and support needs through safe, timely, and person-centred discharge planning.
The successful candidate will play a key role in managing complex cases, undertaking statutory assessments, and coordinating effective discharge arrangements to promote independence and positive outcomes. Working closely with health professionals, discharge coordinators, therapists, ward staff, families, and partner agencies, you will support individuals through periods of transition whilst reducing delays and ensuring appropriate support is in place following discharge.
This role requires a confident Senior Social Worker who can provide professional leadership, support less experienced practitioners, and deliver high-quality social work interventions in accordance with the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005, and Adult Safeguarding legislation.
What will your responsibilities be?
- Managing a complex caseload involving adults with physical disabilities, mental health needs, learning disabilities, frailty, and complex social care needs.
- Undertaking Care Act 2014 assessments, reviews, reassessments, and support planning to facilitate safe and effective discharge from hospital.
- Supporting safe and timely hospital discharges through effective assessment, care coordination, and multidisciplinary partnership working.
- Completing Mental Capacity Assessments and facilitating Best Interest decision-making in accordance with the Mental Capacity Act 2005.
- Undertaking safeguarding enquiries and responding to safeguarding concerns in line with Adult Safeguarding legislation and local procedures.
- Assessing and managing complex risks whilst promoting positive risk-taking, independence, and person-centred outcomes.
- Working collaboratively with discharge coordinators, therapists, ward staff, health professionals, families, carers, and partner agencies.
- Coordinating care packages, support services, community resources, reablement interventions, and placement arrangements where required.
- Supporting individuals and families through periods of transition, crisis, and change.
- Providing professional advice, guidance, mentoring, and support to less experienced practitioners within the team.
- Participating in multidisciplinary meetings, discharge planning meetings, safeguarding discussions, and case reviews.
- Preparing high-quality assessments, reports, support plans, and professional documentation.
- Maintaining accurate, timely, and legally compliant case records in accordance with statutory and organisational requirements.
- Contributing to service development, quality assurance activities, and the promotion of best practice within the service.
Qualifications & Experience:
To be successful in this role you must have,
- Professional Qualification: MA, BA, BSc in Social Work, Diploma in Social Work, CQSW, CSS, or equivalent recognised Social Work qualification.
- Registration: Must be registered with Social Work England.
- Experience: Significant post-qualified experience within Adult Social Care services, including complex case management.
- Hospital Experience: Previous experience working within Hospital Social Work Teams, Integrated Discharge Services, Transfer of Care Teams, or similar hospital-based settings is highly desirable.
- Legislation Knowledge: Strong understanding of the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Adult Safeguarding legislation, and associated statutory guidance.
- Assessment Skills: Proven ability to undertake complex assessments, reviews, support planning, and risk management interventions.
- Mental Capacity Experience: Experience undertaking Mental Capacity Assessments and Best Interest decision-making processes.
- Safeguarding Experience: Experience undertaking safeguarding enquiries and managing complex safeguarding concerns.
- Leadership Skills: Experience supporting, mentoring, and guiding colleagues within Adult Social Care services.
- Multi-Agency Working: Strong experience working collaboratively with NHS professionals, therapists, community teams, care providers, carers, families, and partner agencies.
- Communication Skills: Excellent communication, report-writing, analytical, negotiation, and decision-making skills.
- Professional Practice: Commitment to strengths-based, person-centred practice and continuous professional development.
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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