Social Worker - Hospital - Chichester

Job Title: Social Worker - Hospital
Location: St Richard's Hospital, Chichester
Rate: £35 per hour (up to £38 for highly qualified candidates with at least 2 years of experience). Additional £150 per week expenses for candidates living outside West Sussex.

Liquid Personnel is seeking a dedicated and compassionate Social Worker to join our client's Hospital Social Work Team at St Richard's Hospital in Chichester.

What will your responsibilities be?
In this role, you will deliver a statutory social work service with compassion and empathy. You will work in partnership with colleagues to maintain high standards of social work practice. Your responsibilities will include supporting individuals to regain their skills and independence following hospital admission, conducting assessments, and arranging care and support for individuals both in the hospital and post-discharge. You will participate in multi-disciplinary teams covering A&E and the emergency floor, and attend the hospital at least twice a week for face-to-face assessments and family meetings.

Benefits:

• Flexible working arrangements with a mix of home and hospital-based work.

Qualifications and Experiences:
To be successful in this role, you must have Social Work England registration, be eligible to work in the UK, and hold a qualification in Social Work at degree level. Additionally, you should have post-qualified experience and proven experience in making strengths-based assessments and implementing effective plans. You need the ability to apply a risk enablement approach and use evidence-based practice. Being skilled in analysing and interpreting information to prioritize needs and formulate intervention plans is essential. Experience in contributing to or undertaking safeguarding enquiries is also required. You should have the capability to provide informal supervision and mentor less experienced practitioners. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, along with strong IT skills for effective record-keeping and data protection compliance, are crucial for this role. 

How to apply?
If this is a job for you, feel free to click apply below or if you want to learn more about it, please contact Edward Cooper on 01612349796.

Why Liquid Personnel?

• New ‘Faster Pay’ service getting you paid more quickly


• Twice weekly payroll


• Free DBS and compliance service


• 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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