Advanced Social Work Practitioner

Job description

Liquid Personnel is recruiting Advanced Social Work Practitioner for its client at Nottinghamshire. This is an excellent opportunity for a highly skilled practitioner to work within a fast-paced hospital setting, supporting adults with complex care and support needs across urgent and emergency care pathways. The successful candidate will play a key leadership role within the team, supporting safe and timely hospital discharges, reducing delays, and promoting positive outcomes for individuals and their careers. Working closely with health professionals, multidisciplinary teams, community services, and partner agencies, you will provide expert social work practice, support complex decision-making, and contribute to the ongoing development of high-quality strengths-based practice across the service. This role requires an experienced practitioner with a strong understanding of hospital discharge pathways, the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005, and Discharge to Assess guidance. You will also support the operational management of the team through supervision, coaching, performance management, and deputising for the Team Manager when required. **What will your responsibilities be?** - Managing complex cases involving adults with care and support needs within urgent and emergency care settings. - Undertaking Care Act 2014 assessments, reviews, support planning, and risk assessments to facilitate safe and effective discharge planning. - Applying the Mental Capacity Act 2005, including complex Mental Capacity Assessments and Best Interest decision-making. - Supporting timely hospital discharge through effective application of Discharge to Assess principles and pathways. - Working collaboratively with hospital clinicians, therapists, community services, care providers, carers, and partner agencies to coordinate support arrangements. - Promoting strengths-based practice that maximises independence, wellbeing, and positive outcomes for individuals and their families. - Assessing, managing, and mitigating risks whilst ensuring defensible and proportionate decision-making. - Supporting the reduction of delayed transfers of care by proactively identifying and resolving barriers to discharge. - Providing expert social work advice, guidance, and professional leadership within the multidisciplinary team. - Supervising, coaching, mentoring, and supporting Social Workers and other Adult Social Care practitioners to improve practice and performance. - Supporting the management team in driving service improvements, quality assurance activity, and professional development. - Monitoring and supporting performance management processes, promoting accountability and best practice across the team. - Chairing multidisciplinary meetings, discharge planning meetings, safeguarding discussions, and professional forums. - Deputising for the Team Manager as required and contributing to operational leadership within the service. - Maintaining accurate, timely, and legally compliant case records, assessments, reports, and professional documentation. **Qualifications & Experience:** To be successful in this role you must have, - **Professional Qualification:** MA, BA, BSc in Social Work, Diploma in Social Work, CQSW, CSS, or equivalent recognised Social Work qualification. - **Registration:** Must be registered with Social Work England. - **Experience:** Significant post-qualified experience within Adult Social Care, including hospital-based social work and complex case management. - **Hospital Discharge Experience:** Extensive experience working within Hospital Discharge, Urgent Care, Emergency Care, or Discharge to Assess pathways. - **Legislation Knowledge:** Strong understanding of the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Adult Safeguarding legislation, and Department of Health Discharge to Assess guidance. - **Leadership Experience:** Experience providing supervision, coaching, mentoring, and professional support to colleagues. - **Performance Management:** Experience supporting quality assurance, performance improvement, workforce development, and strengths-based practice. - **Multi-Agency Working:** Proven ability to work effectively alongside NHS professionals, community services, providers, and partner agencies. - **Communication Skills:** Excellent communication, presentation, report-writing, negotiation, and decision-making skills. - **Specialist Qualifications:** Holding one or more of the following is highly desirable: Best Interests Assessor (BIA) Practice Educator (Full Award), Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) - **Professional Practice:** Commitment to strengths-based, person-centred practice, continuous improvement, and high standards of professional leadership. **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. BH - 202977 GH - 36411