Adult Social Worker – Hospital Team – Southwark

Liquid Personnel; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading agency as an Adult Social Worker in Southwark's Hospital Team. You'll conduct assessments, coordinate care, and collaborate with healthcare providers to support vulnerable adults and prevent unnecessary hospital admissions. Enjoy hybrid working, competitive pay, and a supportive team environment.

Benefits

Hybrid working

Supportive team and manager

Competitive pay rate

Free DBS and compliance service

Access to exclusive roles

Free access to training and CPD portal

Dedicated consultant

Refer a Friend bonus

Find your own job bonus

Qualifications

• Post-qualified experience required.
• Social Work England registration is essential.

Responsibilities

• Conduct Care Act assessments and support planning.
• Coordinate care plans and ensure safe transitions home.
• Collaborate with healthcare professionals to reduce hospital admissions.

Skills

Social Work

Assessment

Care Planning

Education

Degree level or equivalent in Social Work

Job description

Job Title: Adult Social Worker – Hospital Team – Southwark
Location: Southwark (Hybrid)
Pay Rate: £32 per hour

About the Role:

Join the Hospital Team as an Adult Social Worker, conducting Care Act assessments, support planning, and leading Safeguarding Enquiries while collaborating with health, housing, and voluntary organisations to ensure comprehensive care for vulnerable adults.

What will your responsibilities be?

In this role, you will support Southwark’s @Home/Urgent pathway, a hospital admission avoidance service. You will intervene with residents who can be supported home from hospital emergency departments (ED) and those at risk of admission from home. Your responsibilities include assessing patients’ needs, coordinating care plans, and ensuring a safe transition back to their homes. You will collaborate with healthcare professionals to provide comprehensive support, aiming to reduce unnecessary hospital admissions and improve patient outcomes.

Benefits:

• Hybrid working
• Supportive team and manager
• Competitive pay rate

Essential Requirements:

• Social Work England registration
• Eligibility to work in the UK
• Full UK driving license
• Post-qualified experience
• Degree level or equivalent in Social Work

Why Liquid Personnel?

• New ‘Faster Pay’ service getting you paid more quickly
• Twice weekly payroll
• Free DBS and compliance service
• 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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