Hospice Social Worker: Discharge, Carer & Bereavement

St Catherine's Hospice; Preston; Sur place; GBP 32 000 - 45 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

St Catherines Hospice is seeking a qualified social worker to join its Support Team within a local charity. The role focuses on delivering a social work service across inpatient and community settings for people with life-shortening conditions, and their families.

The post involves managing complex cases, coordinating discharges, providing emotional support, and working with a multi-disciplinary team to meet diverse needs in compassionate, tailored care.

Responsabilités

• Management of a caseload of individuals with complex health and social care needs
• Be responsible for monitoring own case work and managing the time available to deliver key aspects of the role, recognising own limitations and seeking support, informal/formal supervision and training from line manager as appropriate.
• Receive referrals from members of the multi professional team at St Catherines Hospice and undertake specialist assessments inclusive of; wellbeing assessments, carers assessments, mental capacity / DoLs assessments, and contribute to continuing health care assessments with the aim of coordinating safe and timely discharges in conjunction with the Multi-Disciplinary Team
• Provision of psychological and emotional support to individuals carers/ families including those who are living with grief and loss.
• Provide support, advice, and information as required with debt, housing, wills, and funerals.
• Liaise with hospice, hospital and community agencies both statutory and voluntary where appropriate for the benefit of individuals with life limiting conditions.
• Attend and chair meetings as and when required e.g. multi-disciplinary, safeguarding strategy, case conferences.
• Undertake befriending assessments and reviews of the service inclusive of support, supervise and management of volunteer befrienders

Description du poste

St Catherines Hospice is seeking a qualified social worker to join its Support Team within a local charity. The role focuses on delivering a social work service across inpatient and community settings for people with life-shortening conditions, and their families.

The post involves managing complex cases, coordinating discharges, providing emotional support, and working with a multi-disciplinary team to meet diverse needs in compassionate, tailored care.