Social Worker - Hospital Discharge Neighbourhood Teams

Job Title: Social Worker - Hospital Discharge Neighbourhood Teams
Location: Leeds
Rate: £31 per hour

The Leeds City Council is looking for an experienced Social Worker to join their Hospital Discharge Neighbourhood Team based in Leeds.

In this role, you will be responsible for planning, managing, prioritising, and evaluating work with service users. You will provide a high level of effective written and verbal communication, overcoming resistance and exercising assertiveness where appropriate. You will negotiate, challenge, and manage conflict, solve problems, and innovate to promote positive change. Additionally, you will support service plans, maintain accurate service user records and assessments, and follow policy and procedure.

You will chair multi‑agency meetings and represent the Authority in a professional capacity. Furthermore, you will supervise, support, encourage, and advise both qualified and non‑qualified staff, using reflective practice techniques to critically analyse information to inform decision‑making and planning.

• Hybrid Work
• Supervision and Training
• Immediate start available with initial 3 month contract

To be successful in this role you must have Social Work England registration, be eligible to work in the UK, hold a qualification in Social Work at degree level, and have post‑qualified experience.

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.

Liquid Personnel is an equal opportunities employer.