Social Worker - Hospital Team

Social Worker – Hospital Social Work Team

Salary - £42,708 - £47,754 (Grade
7)

Hours - 37 hours per week working Monday to Saturday (1 in 4/5 Saturdays)

Contract type - full time, permanent post

Be the social worker you want to be…

This is an exciting time to join the City of Wolverhampton Council as aHospital Social Worker. The post holder will be based within the Hospital Social Work team offering a citywide service facilitating timely discharges from the Acute Trust, West Park Hospital and Home First services.

In Wolverhampton we are ambitiousfor our social workers, passionate about excellent, relational social work practice and courageous in our innovation, with leaders who are visible and responsive.

We need people like you who will support us to work in a truly person-centred and strengths-based way.

At the award-winning City of Wolverhampton Council, we work restoratively with people, building strong relationships and making connections to help them find long-lasting solutions that are right for them using the Three Conversations approach.

At the heart of this way of working is having a meaningful conversation with a person, listening hard and being interested in what matters to them. But it’s also about innovation, creativity and professionalautonomy.

Our vision in Adult’s Services is that the individuals we support will be at the centre of everything we do. We are committed to celebrating uniqueness and promoting independence, wellbeing and safety.

We are a forward-thinking, responsive organisation and want our social workers to spend their time building relationships with people and families to achieve real, sustainable change.

We have a clear development pathway alongside a substantial training and development offer which is varied and responsive to practice challenges. Our senior managers and leaders are visible and take the time to listen to frontline employees.

If you are someone who is passionate and tenacious, wants to do the best job possible and is committed to excellent social work practice then we want to hear from you!

We will inspire, support and champion you so that you can be the social worker you want to be.

Join us…

You will:

• Engage with and empower people on discharge from hospital or ‘home first’ discharge to assess (D2A) services, their carers, and their support networks, in short term care planning.
• Have good understanding of the hospital discharge process
• The ability to negotiate, advocate and influence safe discharges
• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in supporting complex discharges
• Have a good understanding of the importance of appropriate Funding streams and how these may be accessed.
• To provide written and verbal reports as required and to assist in assessing and monitoring the implementation of plans and positive outcomes for thepeople, including attendance and presentation of multi-disciplinary and family
• Be dedicated to working directly with people with care and support needs and carers to ensure that their voices are heard, and they are supported to live their idea of a good life
• Have a sound working knowledge of relevant legislation, such as the Care Act, Mental Capacity Act, Discharge policy and procedures as well as keysocial work models and theories and evidence of application of this to practice
• Have strong analytical, assessment and negotiation skills
• Have excellent time management and organisational skills
• Be passionate about making a difference and committed to strengths-based working
• Be able to demonstrate you can work with colleagues and alongside service providers, police, health colleagues, voluntary partners and commissioners
• Have strong interpersonal, communication and IT skills
• Be registered with Social Work England
• Have a vision for your own career development and clear plan for your future training needs
• Have completed the Assessed and Supported Year in Employment (ASYE) or an equivalent post qualifying pathway

These posts are subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

For your valued contribution we offer:

• Fantastic learning and development opportunities, including access to Research in Practice for Adults (RiPfA)
• A Social Work CPD /…