The role
Southwark Transfer of Care (Hospital Discharge) Team South are seeking a Weekend Social Worker covering Friday to Tuesday for our busy team covering Kings College and St Thomas' Hospitals. 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 qualified social worker with good knowledge, and preferably experience, of working in a Hospital Social Care setting, including undertaking person-centred assessments of adults and their families and carers. You will be based in the Transfer of Care (Hospital Discharge) Team, this means you’ll be fully up to speed with relevant legislation and the principles of self-directed support.
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.
About Southwark:
We are the largest local authority social landlord in London, managing 55,000 homes lived in by 40% of Southwark’s residents. We are home to over 18,300 businesses including iconic London venues and social enterprises and we have a young, diverse and growing population.
At Southwark we are committed to making our borough just and fair and are taking positive action to tackle inequalities. Our residents and communities are our greatest asset and the passion we have for Southwark is shared by millions of Londoners who enjoy our outstanding cultural offer, use our hospitals and attend our universities. Our refreshed borough plan and focus on Southwark Stands Together, (which is our work with Southwark’s communities and the council’s staff to tackle racism, injustice and inequality) underpins all that we do.
Additional details
Hours of work: 36 hours (Friday – Tuesday).
Enhanced pay for Weekend Social Work role.
Applicants must hold a recognised Social Worker qualification and be registered with Social Work England.
Please note a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check is required at enhanced level.
Benefits and more information:
In your role, we want you to feel supported, challenged and rewarded. You will benefit from our family-friendly policies including flexible working and home working options. We offer a competitive salary, access to the Local Government Pension Scheme, generous holiday allowance as well as a number of other permanent staff benefits (Eye care scheme/Cycle 2 Work and Cycle Loan/Season ticket loan/oyster card pool/Essential User parking permits/Free swim and gym scheme/Proud to Care Rewards).
You will join a motivated, driven and supportive team that strives for excellence and values its members. You will also be part of a successful and high-achieving development team that is making a real difference to the lives of residents in the borough. For more information about the wide variety of benefits you can take advantage of please visit our Staff Benefits page.
Guaranteed Interview Scheme:
As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:
• Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
• Are currently in care, or have previously been in care
• If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition
Recruitment timetable
Closing Date: 8th April 2024 at 23:59
Interview and Assessment Date: 24th April 2024
SWCHTF
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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