Senior Practitioner - Hospital Discharge & Integrated Care

Liquid Personnel is recruiting Senior Practitioner for its client's Hospital Discharge & Integrated Care team at Haringey.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Social Worker with strong hospital discharge and complex adult social care experience to take on a senior role supporting the delivery of high-quality services.

You will support the Team Manager in leading a multidisciplinary team of Social Workers, Occupational Therapists, Business Support Officers and Reablement staff, ensuring safe and timely hospital discharges and effective reablement services.

The role will focus on making complex professional decisions, managing risk and identifying appropriate care pathways to promote independence and achieve positive outcomes for adults and their families.

• →Support the Team Manager in leading and developing a multidisciplinary hospital discharge and reablement team.
• →Coordinate and support timely hospital discharges into individuals' homes, rehabilitation units and care placements.
• →Undertake complex care assessments where there are significant risks or support needs.
• →Make sound professional decisions regarding care packages, risk management and appropriate care pathways.
• →Ensure effective reablement services and achievement of outcomes within the six-week reablement period.
• →Support the management and monitoring of service performance, targets and professional standards.
• →Assess care packages and consider financial implications within delegated budgetary responsibilities.
• →Work collaboratively with NHS partners, hospital teams, Occupational Therapists and community services.
• →Promote independence, strengths-based practice and improved outcomes for service users.
• →Support the development of professional practice, policies and new ways of working.

To be successful in this role you must have, 

Essential Experience & Skills:

• Significant experience working within statutory Adult Social Care.
• Strong experience in hospital discharge and integrated care services.
• Experience undertaking complex assessments and managing high-risk cases.
• Proven ability to make professional decisions regarding care pathways and support packages.
• Experience working within multidisciplinary teams.
• Ability to support, guide and develop colleagues in a senior practitioner capacity.
• Strong understanding of reablement and promoting independence.
• Knowledge of safeguarding, risk management and statutory social care requirements.
• Excellent leadership, communication and decision-making skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced hospital discharge environment.

Essential Qualifications:

• Recognised Social Work qualification.
• Current registration with Social Work England.
• Strong working knowledge of the Care Act 2014 and Mental Capacity Act 2005.
• Relevant knowledge of adult safeguarding and hospital discharge procedures.

•  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.

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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