Senior Social Worker – Hospital Discharge
Liquid PersonnelCoventry, England, United Kingdom · Posted 1 day agoDescription
Our client based in Coventry is seeking an experienced Senior Social Worker to join their Hospital Discharge Team. This is an excellent opportunity for a highly skilled practitioner to support adults through timely, safe, and effective hospital discharge pathways, ensuring individuals receive the right support to maximise independence and achieve positive outcomes within their communities.
The successful candidate will work as part of a multidisciplinary hospital-based service, managing complex cases involving adults with a range of health, social care, and support needs. You will provide professional leadership, support less experienced practitioners, and work closely with health colleagues, community teams, carers, families, and partner agencies to prevent delayed discharges and promote strengths-based outcomes.
This role requires a confident practitioner who can balance complex decision-making, risk management, safeguarding responsibilities, and statutory duties whilst ensuring person-centred practice remains at the heart of all interventions.
Key Responsibilities
Core duties include:
- Managing a complex caseload of adults requiring social care intervention within hospital settings.
- Undertaking Care Act 2014 assessments, reviews, and support planning to facilitate safe and effective discharge from hospital.
- Supporting adults and their carers through strengths-based, person-centred interventions that promote independence and wellbeing.
- Coordinating discharge arrangements, ensuring appropriate care, support services, equipment, and community resources are in place.
- Undertaking Mental Capacity Assessments and contributing to Best Interest decision-making processes where required.
- Managing safeguarding concerns and undertaking safeguarding enquiries in accordance with relevant legislation and local procedures.
- Working collaboratively with hospital clinicians, discharge coordinators, therapists, community teams, care providers, families, and carers.
- Assessing and managing risk effectively, ensuring safe discharge planning and positive outcomes.
- Identifying opportunities for reablement, rehabilitation, and preventative support to reduce long-term dependency on services.
- Providing professional guidance, mentoring, and support to less experienced social workers, students, and colleagues within the team.
- Chairing and participating in multidisciplinary meetings, discharge planning meetings, and safeguarding discussions where required.
- Maintaining accurate, timely, and legally compliant assessments, reports, case records, and support plans.
- Supporting service improvement initiatives and contributing to the ongoing development of best practice within hospital social work services.
Qualifications & Experience
- Professional Qualification: MA, BA, BSc in Social Work, Diploma in Social Work, or CQSW.
- Registration: Must be registered with Social Work England.
- Experience: Significant post-qualified experience within Adult Social Care, including hospital discharge and complex case management.
- Legislation Knowledge: Strong understanding of the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Adult Safeguarding legislation, Continuing Healthcare processes, and associated statutory guidance.
- Hospital Experience: Proven experience working within hospital discharge pathways, acute settings, or multidisciplinary health environments.
- Assessment Skills: Excellent assessment, care planning, risk management, and decision-making skills.
- Safeguarding Experience: Experience managing safeguarding concerns and undertaking safeguarding enquiries involving vulnerable adults.
- Leadership Skills: Experience supporting, mentoring, or guiding less experienced practitioners and contributing to professional development.
- Multi-Agency Working: Strong experience working collaboratively with health professionals, community services, care providers, and partner agencies.
- Communication Skills: Excellent communication, negotiation, report-writing, and organisational skills.
- Professional Practice: Commitment to strengths-based, person-centred practice and continuous professional development.
How to Apply
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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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