Social Worker

St. Margaret’s Hospice; Taunton; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 41,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading hospice charity in Taunton is seeking a Social Worker to join their supportive care team. In this full-time role, you'll manage a complex case load, ensuring the needs of patients and families are met. Offering competitive salary and generous holiday entitlement, the position allows for a blend of hospice and home-based work.

Benefits

33 days holiday including bank holidays

5% employer pension contribution

Employee Assistance Programme

Free on-site parking

Qualifications

• Degree or master’s in social work required.
• Experience in safeguarding within health or social care settings.
• Strong understanding of safeguarding legislation.

Responsibilities

• Manage a complex case load of patients with palliative diagnoses.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to meet patient's needs.
• Provide safeguarding support to clinical staff and patients.

Skills

Safeguarding knowledge

Collaboration

Communication

Education

Degree or Master’s in Social Work

Registration with Social Work England

Job description

St Margaret’s Hospice Care has a fantastic opportunity for a Social Worker with substantial safeguarding knowledge to join our Supportive care team. You will join us on apermanent basis and in return, you will receive a competitive salary of£37,338 - £40,888per annum.

This roleis based in Taunton and Yeovil and involves travel throughout Somerset to undertake community work, home visits, and meetings.

This is a full time role (37.5 hours) witha working pattern of 5 days a week. The post is hospice based with possibility of working at home one or two days a week.

What can you expect to be doing?
You will be joining an established and super supportive team with a collaborative working culture.

As our Social Worker, you will autonomously manage a complex case load of patients with a palliative, life limiting diagnosis. You will also support their families and carers.

Under the guidance of the Supportive Care Lead, your day-to-day work will include:

• Working with the clinical teams to ensure the social and supportive care needs of all patients and families are assessed and where possible met.
• Using your safeguarding knowledge and expertise to provide advice and guidance.
• Providing expert safeguarding support to clinical staff, patients, families, and carers, ensuring the welfare of vulnerable adults and children.
• Managing safeguarding concerns and promoting best practices.
• Training and developing colleagues, including line managing the Social Work Assistant.
• Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to deliver compassionate, patient-centred care

What qualifications and experience will you need?

Qualifications:

• Degree or Master’s in Social Work (or equivalent).
• Registration with Social Work England.

Experience:

• Experience in safeguarding vulnerable adults and/or children within a health, hospice, or social care setting.
• Knowledge of palliative care, end-of-life care, or related health and social care fields is desirable.
• Strong understanding of safeguarding legislation and guidance, including the Care Act 2014, Children Act 1989/2004, and Working Together to Safeguard Children.

Additional Requirements:

• Full driving license required as travel is essential as the post is over both Taunton and Yeovil hospice sites.
• Ability to travel locally to attend meetings and home visits as necessary.

If you are successful at interview, the offer will be subject to satisfactory criminal background check via the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

What can we offer you?
You won’t just be joining a fantastic team – you’llbe part of a welcoming, community minded charity. Our mission is to provide excellent specialist palliative care for patients and support to their families. Everyone here contributes and has a part to play towards our goal. If you speak to any of our staff or volunteers, they will tell you how the patient is at the heart of everything they do. So, if you’re looking for a role where you can really make a difference, working as part of a supportive team, we could be a perfect match.

Holiday entitlement

• 33 days holiday including bank holidays rising to 35 days after 1 year, and increasing with length of service (pro-rata if part-time)
• Recognise continuous service for clinical staff paid at band 5+ who join directly from the NHS or another hospice
• Ability to buy and sell annual leave

Pension scheme

• NHS employees eligible to continue with their NHS pension scheme*
• Non-NHS employees will receive 5% employer and 5% employee contribution.

Award-winning Employee Assistance Programme for you and your family offering:

• Vitality & wellbeing health portal for non-emergency care
• Unlimited access to 24/7 online GP Consultations for employees, their partners, and dependent children as well as Expert Case Management
• Confidential and free 24-hour Employee Assistance
• Counselling and support
• Legal, financial, and medical information and advice

And more…

• Life assurance cover– 2x salary
• Health Cash Plans- help with covering the cost of healthcare needs by providing cashback on a range of health benefits
• Blue Light Discount Card
• Enhanced maternity/paternity leave*
• Excellent learning and development opportunities
• Free on-site parking in Yeovil and Taunton
• Volunteering and fundraising opportunities

*Eligibility criteria applies

If you want to get to know our team or have a chat before applying, we'd love to hear from you. Just reach out to Amanda [e-mail]

We are currently managing the recruitment process in-house and kindly ask that recruitment agencies refrain from contacting us with candidates for this role.

For any questions about our recruitment process, please [e-mail]

Unfortunately, we are not able to offer visasponsorshipat this time.

We welcome applications from a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences to enrich our team. You can always contact us for a chat if there's anything you want to talk about before you apply.

If you have all the information you need, just click apply. We can't wait to hear from you!

Closing date:24thJune 2025

We would love the opportunity to interview candidates before the closing date and may close the advert early for the right candidate.