The role
About Southwark:
Southwark is a large, ambitious and progressive council with a ‘can do’ attitude and enviable reputation. As a Council, we are successful, passionate and forward thinking. We are committed to our ‘Fairer Futures for All’ promise, which ensures that our residents and businesses are central to everything we do. If you want to make a difference at a local level, apply to Southwark Council today.
The Older Peoples and Physical Disabilities Hospital Discharge Teams are vital in enabling timely and safe transfers from hospital for Southwark residents. With a large emphasis on the ‘home first’ model, the team work collaboratively with colleagues across the acute and community health and social care system to ensure a safe transfer of care. The team are involved in both health and social care discharge to assess processes; they have a wide range of experience, skills and knowledge. The team work closely with colleagues in the acute trusts and community to. We work collaboratively we have successfully transferred as many people home as possible.
The role:
Southwark Hospital Discharge Team South are seeking newly qualified social workers for our busy team based at Kings College Hospital. The team provides support for adult service users requiring assessment and provision of services to support safe and timely discharges from hospital.
Our social workers work closely with the hospitals multi-disciplinary teams to undertake a range of activities to facilitate discharges within the Discharge to Assess framework, including assessing for and arranging nursing and residential placements and generic packages of care.
The team works with a high number of service users with cognitive impairments, therefore social workers regularly complete Mental Capacity Assessments and Best Interest Meetings / decisions, the team also receive Safeguarding referrals from the hospitals and carryout safeguarding enquiries as required.
About you:
You will be a newly qualified social worker seeking to complete your ASYE (Assessed and Supported Year in Employment). You will have good knowledge, and possibly experience, of working in a Hospital Social Care setting, including undertaking person-centered assessments of adults and their families and carers. You will be based in the Hospital Team, this means you’ll be fully up to speed with relevant legislation and the principles of self-directed support within this environment.
Additional details
Internal only. We will only consider applications from internal candidates that are current employees or agency workers on an active assignment.
Please note this post required Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at enhanced level.
Applicants must have current professional registration with Social Work England (SWE).
Benefits and more information:
We provide a range of benefits to our social workers in recognition of their commitment to the role including:
- Annual Leave entitlement - starting at 28 days – rising to 36 days (dependent on length of service)
- Part time and flexible working
- Pension scheme (LGPS) – including options for early retirement and final salary
- Eye Care Scheme
- Vibrant borough in the heart of London
- Travel Schemes including season ticket loan – interest free and Cycle to Work loan
- Creative spaces and modern offices
- Stable and supportive leadership and effective partnership working with access to a range of specialist services.
- Opportunities for personal and career development
- Supportive environment with a commitment to staff
For more information about the wide variety of benefits you can take advantage of please visit our Staff Benefits page.
Throughout your time at Southwark you will be constantly learning. You will be challenged by your work, encouraged to try new approaches and supported to maximise your potential. We will invest in providing the resources you need to develop professionally, through a combination of informal on-the-job and formal development programmes.
Recruitment timetable:
Closing Date: 01/07/2022
Shortlisting Date: 05/07/2022
Interview and Assessments: 12/07/2022
SWCINT
We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together programme. We particularly welcome applications from members of the Black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.
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