Job Description

Job Title: Social Worker - Adult Hospital Discharge - St Helens
Location: St Helens (Hybrid)
Pay Rate: £35 per hour

About the Role:

Liquid Personnel is recruiting a Qualified Social Worker for the Adult Hospital Discharge Team at St Helens. To be successful in this role you must have registration with the Social Work England (SWE) as a Social Worker, holding a qualification equivalent to the Diploma in Social Work (DipSW).

What will your responsibilities be?

In this role, you will complete assessments and related tasks to support hospital discharge for patients at Whiston Hospital. You will facilitate patient transitions to home or other care settings, ensuring appropriate support is in place. Operating effectively in a high-pressure, fast-paced environment, with experience in discharge planning preferred, you will fulfil a full-time role (37 hours per week), working between 8:45 am and 5:15 pm, with a mix of office, remote, and ward-based work. Additionally, you will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to ensure safe, person-centred discharge outcomes.

Benefits:

• Supportive team
• Great rate of pay £35 per hour
• Flexible and hybrid working to support work-life balance

Requirements for the role:

• Complete assessments and related tasks to support hospital discharge for patients at Whiston Hospital.
• Facilitate patient transitions to home or other care settings, ensuring appropriate support is in place.
• Operate effectively in a high-pressure, fast-paced environment, with experience in discharge planning preferred.
• Fulfil a full-time role (37 hours per week), working between 8:45 am and 5:15 pm, with a mix of office, remote, and ward-based work.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to ensure safe, person-centred discharge outcomes.

What we are looking for in a Social Worker:

• SWE registration
• Eligible to work in the UK
• Hold a full UK license
• Post-qualified experience
• Degree level or equivalent in Social Work

Why Liquid Personnel?

• New ‘Faster Pay’ service getting you paid more quickly
• Twice weekly payroll
• Free DBS and compliance service
• 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.

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