About the role
Our client in Salford is seeking an experienced Advanced Practitioner to join their Hospital Discharge Team, supporting adults with complex social care needs and ensuring safe, timely transitions from hospital settings. In this senior role, you will provide professional leadership, oversee complex casework, support practitioners through supervision and mentoring, and work collaboratively with partners to deliver high-quality, person-centred outcomes.
Benefits
- Rare senior locum role
- Enhanced rate
- Fast paced working environment
What will your responsibilities be?
In this role, you will,
- Undertake complex assessments and provide professional advice, guidance, and intervention in relation to individuals with complex social care needs.
- Provide professional leadership and expertise within the team, supporting high-quality, person-centred practice and decision-making.
- Manage and oversee complex cases, ensuring appropriate risk assessment, care planning, safeguarding, and review arrangements are in place.
- Provide supervision, mentoring, coaching, and support to social workers and other professionals, promoting reflective and evidence-based practice.
- Work collaboratively with individuals, families, carers, and multidisciplinary partners to achieve positive outcomes and promote independence.
- Provide specialist advice and guidance on complex safeguarding, legal, risk management, and social care matters.
- Support effective decision-making in relation to care and support arrangements, ensuring practice is consistent with relevant legislation, policies, procedures, and professional standards.
- Contribute to service development, quality assurance, audits, and the implementation of practice improvements within the service.
- Promote strengths-based, strengths-focused, and person-centred approaches, ensuring individuals are actively involved in decisions about their care and support.
- Maintain accurate and timely case records and provide professional reports and recommendations as required.
- Deputise for senior colleagues where appropriate and contribute to the effective management and development of the service.
- Keep up to date with changes in legislation, policy, research, and best practice, sharing learning and promoting continuous professional development across the team.
Qualifications & Experience
To be successful in this role you must have:
- Social Work England registration
- Eligible to work in the UK
- Hold a full UK driving licence
- Post-qualified experience
- Degree level or equivalent in Social Work
Interested? Apply now or get in touch with us to learn more about this opportunities.
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.
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