Liquid Personnel
Social Worker - Hospital Discharge
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Experienced Social Workers Needed at Salford Royal
Location: Salford Royal
Type: Office-based
Working Hours: Monday to Friday, 08:00 to 16:00
Role Overview
We are currently seeking experienced social workers to support our Hospital Services and Intermediate Care Service at Salford Royal.
Responsibilities
- Undertake comprehensive assessments of patients’ social care, safeguarding, housing, and support needs to facilitate safe and effective discharge from hospital.
- Develop and coordinate person-centred discharge plans in partnership with patients, families, carers, and relevant professionals.
- Assess eligibility for social care services and identify appropriate packages of care, support, and community resources.
- Coordinate referrals and access to appropriate services, including domiciliary care, reablement, supported living, residential, and nursing care.
- Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team to ensure timely and coordinated discharge planning.
- Advocate for patients’ rights, wishes, preferences, and wellbeing throughout the assessment and discharge process.
- Identify, assess, and respond appropriately to safeguarding concerns, escalating risks in accordance with relevant policies and procedures.
- Liaise with families, carers, health professionals, local authority services, and external agencies to ensure effective communication and continuity of care.
- Address housing and accommodation issues that may present barriers to safe discharge, making appropriate referrals where required.
- Maintain accurate, timely, and confidential records of assessments, decisions, interventions, and discharge arrangements in accordance with professional and organisational requirements.
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Benefits
- Exciting fast-paced working environment
- Free parking
- Enhanced pay rate
- Long-term contract until Spring 2027
Qualifications and Experience
- Social Work England registration
- Eligible to work in the UK
- Hold a full UK driving licence
- Post-qualified experience
- Degree level or equivalent in Social Work
Why Liquid Personnel?
- Free DBS and compliance service
- Twice-weekly payroll and ‘Faster Pay’ 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 *
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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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