Hospital Discharge Social Worker Jobs

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Are you looking for the best choice of hospital discharge social worker jobs available in the UK?

Liquid can help you find your perfect role in hospital discharge. We have a variety of exclusive temporary and permanent hospital discharge social worker jobs available at NHS trusts across the country, offering excellent pay rates and many other benefits.

As a hospital discharge social worker, you’ll be part of a multidisciplinary team providing support for adult service users requiring assessment and delivering services to support their safe and timely discharge from hospital.

Interested? Browse some of our latest hospital discharge worker roles below, and don’t forget to check out our hospital discharge social worker FAQs.

Hospital Discharge Social Worker Jobs

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Hospital discharge social work FAQs

You’ll work closely with doctors, nurses, and other professionals 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.

Hospital discharge social workers help service users with the following:

  • Hospital discharge to their home or another place of care, such as nursing and residential placements
  • Getting in touch with agencies who can help them, especially after discharge
  • Helping them to keep safe
  • Offering advice about money and benefits
  • Helping them make important social and medical decisions
  • Hospital travel costs and applications to charities
  • Helping with any housing worries
  • Offering guidance and support to family and primary carers

We’re looking for qualified social workers with a degree in social work (or equivalent) who are registered with Social Work England, eligible to work in the UK and hold post-qualifying experience in:

  • Adult social care
  • Completing Mental Capacity Assessments/ Best Interest Meeting
  • Undertaking person-centred assessments of adults and their families and carers
  • Setting up packages of care and support planning
  • Dealing with safeguarding enquiries and referrals

It’s also important that you’re up to speed with the relevant legislation.

You’ll be supporting adult service users requiring assessment and delivering services to support their safe and timely discharge from hospital. As a hospital discharge social worker, you’ll also be working with service users with cognitive impairments.

We have a variety of exclusive temporary and permanent hospital discharge social worker jobs available at NHS trusts across the country. Browse our latest roles.

At Liquid, we know social work. With unparalleled knowledge of the sector and a focus on forming invaluable relationships with you, our professionals, you can be sure you’ve come to the right people. Our promise is to bring you the most exciting range of social work opportunities to find you your next perfect role and further your career.

When working with Liquid, you’ll benefit from:

  • Access to a wide selection of social work positions across the UK, some of which you won’t find with any other agency
  • Your own dedicated consultant with extensive social work knowledge
  • Free DBS and compliance service
  • Twice weekly payroll
  • Free access to Liquid’s exclusive social work training and CPD portal
  • Refer a friend bonus

Each type of social worker plays a vital role in addressing specific societal challenges and promoting the well-being of individuals and families within their respective areas of expertise.

Why choose ViaR ?

Exclusive jobs

ViaR Recruitment are trusted by employers to supply exceptional practitioners for children’s social worker jobs, at all levels. We’re exclusively partnered with a number of organisations. This gives you access to temporary, permanent and project-based children’s social work jobs that you simply won’t find anywhere else.

Wider choice of employers and roles

We offer career opportunities to skilled practitioners at over 150 organisations throughout the UK, with hundreds of roles in children’s and adults’ services. Whether you’re looking for frontline child services jobs or more long-term therapeutic work, we have a wide choice of permanent and locum social worker jobs to suit your needs and experience. 

Expert knowledge

As a leading permanent and locum social work recruitment agency, our teams are made up of skilled and experienced professionals. Every member of our team is trained extensively to ensure they’re experts in their field. 

Personal consulting

You will have your own consultant assigned to you from the first time you speak to Liquid. They will be your point of contact during your time with us, working closely with you to understand your needs and identify the best social work job opportunities for you.  

 

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