Posted 3 months ago
Social Worker - Hospital Team
AI Summary
An Adult Social Worker managing hospital discharges, completing Care Act assessments, coordinating safe discharge plans, and liaising with therapy teams and MDTs in a fast-paced acute hospital setting.
About this role
Liquid Personnel is recruiting an Adult Social Worker to join its client’s Hospital team, based in Manchester.
What will your responsibilities be?
- Managing hospital discharges - completing timely Care Act assessments, coordinating safe discharge plans and ensuring appropriate community support is in place.
- Liaising with reablement and MDTs - working closely with therapy teams, ward staff and external providers to progress discharge pathways and reduce delays.
- Undertaking hospital‑based social work tasks - addressing safeguarding concerns, assessing risk, updating support plans and supporting complex cases within a fast‑paced acute setting.
Benefits:
- Condensed working week - option to work full‑time hours over 4 days, giving better work–life balance without losing pay.
- Strong hourly rate - competitive £30ph for a straightforward hospital discharge post, ideal for boosting earnings quickly on a short contract.
- Fast‑paced acute experience - valuable hospital‑based practice, MDT working and reablement liaison that strengthens a CV and opens doors to future NHS or IDT roles.
Qualifications and Experience:
To be successful in this role you must have;
- Social Work England registration
- Eligible to work in the UK
- Hold a full UK driving licence
- Post-qualified experience
- Degree level or equivalent in Social Work
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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