Social Worker – Integrated Discharge

Job description

Liquid Personnel is recruiting an Adult's Social Worker to join its client’s Integrated Discharge team, based in Nottingham. This is an excellent opportunity for a skilled practitioner to work within a fast-paced hospital discharge service, supporting adults with complex care and support needs to achieve safe, timely, and effective discharges from hospital. The successful candidate will work as part of a multidisciplinary team alongside health professionals, community services, carers, families, and partner agencies to promote independence, wellbeing, and positive outcomes. Using strengths-based and person-centred approaches, you will undertake statutory assessments, coordinate support services, manage risk, and develop discharge plans that enable individuals to return safely to their communities with the appropriate support in place. This role requires a proactive Social Worker who can work effectively under pressure, manage competing priorities, and support individuals through periods of transition while ensuring compliance with Adult Social Care legislation and best practice. **What will your responsibilities be?** - Supporting safe, timely, and effective hospital discharge planning for adults with complex health and social care needs. - Undertaking Care Act 2014 assessments, reviews, and reassessments to identify eligible needs and facilitate appropriate discharge arrangements. - Developing and implementing person-centred Care and Support Plans that promote independence, recovery, and positive outcomes. - Working collaboratively with hospital teams, health professionals, community services, carers, families, and partner agencies to coordinate discharge pathways. - Identifying opportunities for reablement, rehabilitation, and preventative support to reduce long-term dependency on services. - Undertaking Mental Capacity Assessments and contributing to Best Interest decision-making in accordance with the Mental Capacity Act 2005. - Managing safeguarding concerns and undertaking safeguarding interventions where required to ensure adults are protected from abuse, neglect, and exploitation. - Assessing and managing risk, ensuring discharge plans appropriately balance safety, independence, and individual choice. - Coordinating community-based services, equipment, care packages, and support arrangements to facilitate successful discharge outcomes. - Supporting adults and carers through periods of change, providing advice, guidance, advocacy, and practical support. - Participating in multidisciplinary meetings, discharge planning discussions, safeguarding meetings, and case reviews. - Maintaining accurate, timely, and high-quality case records, assessments, reports, and support plans in accordance with legislative and organisational requirements. **Qualifications and Experience:** To be successful in this role you must have; - 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, hospital discharge services, or a related setting. - Legislation Knowledge: Strong understanding of the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Adult Safeguarding legislation, and associated statutory guidance. - Hospital Discharge Experience: Experience supporting adults through hospital discharge pathways and coordinating community-based support arrangements. - Assessment Skills: Proven ability to undertake complex assessments, reviews, support planning, and risk management interventions. - Safeguarding Experience: Experience identifying and responding to safeguarding concerns involving vulnerable adults. - Multi-Agency Working: Strong experience working collaboratively with NHS services, community teams, carers, and partner organisations. - Communication Skills: Excellent communication, report-writing, negotiation, and decision-making skills. - Professional Practice: Commitment to strengths-based, person-centred practice and continuous professional development. - Driving Licence: Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle is desirable. **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 -** 202351 **GH -** 36184