Social Worker – Mental Health Discharge

Liquid Personnel is recruiting an Adult’s Social Worker to join its client’s Mental Health Discharge team, based in Shropshire.This is an excellent opportunity for a dedicated practitioner to support adults with complex mental health needs through safe, timely, and person-centred discharge planning.

The successful candidate will work closely with service users, carers, health professionals, housing services, and partner agencies to enable successful transitions from hospital into the community. You will play a key role in coordinating care, managing risk, promoting recovery, and ensuring individuals receive the right support to maximise independence and wellbeing following discharge.

This role requires a skilled Social Worker with experience of adult mental health services, hospital discharge pathways, and the application of the Care Act 2014, Mental Health Act 1983/2007, and Mental Capacity Act 2005.

What will your responsibilities be?

• Managing a caseload of adults with complex mental health needs, ensuring effective and timely discharge planning.
• Undertaking Care Act 2014 assessments, reviews, and support planning to identify eligible care and support needs.
• Applying the Mental Health Act 1983/2007 and Mental Capacity Act 2005 within day-to-day practice and decision-making.
• Supporting safe and timely discharge from inpatient mental health settings by identifying and addressing barriers to discharge.
• Coordinating Section 117 aftercare planning and reviews, ensuring eligible individuals receive appropriate aftercare services and support.
• Arranging and coordinating care packages, supported accommodation, placements, and community support services to meet assessed needs.
• Undertaking Mental Capacity Assessments and facilitating Best Interest decision-making where required.
• Assessing and managing risk effectively, balancing safety, recovery, independence, and positive risk-taking.
• Undertaking safeguarding enquiries and responding to concerns relating to abuse, neglect, self-neglect, and exploitation.
• Working collaboratively with Community Mental Health Teams, health professionals, carers, housing providers, statutory agencies, and voluntary organisations.
• Attending multidisciplinary meetings, discharge planning meetings, safeguarding discussions, and case reviews.
• Providing advice, guidance, and support to service users, carers, colleagues, and partner agencies.
• Maintaining accurate, timely, and legally compliant assessments, reports, support plans, and case records.

Qualifications and Experience

To be successful in this role you must have;

• Professional Qualification: MA, BA, BSc in Social Work, Diploma in Social Work, CQSW, CSS, or equivalent recognised Social Work qualification.
• Registration: Must be registered with Social Work England.
• Experience: Significant post-qualified experience within Adult Social Care or Adult Mental Health Services.
• Mental Health Experience: Experience working with adults experiencing complex mental health needs, including discharge planning and community-based support.
• Legislation Knowledge: Strong understanding of the Care Act 2014, Mental Health Act 1983/2007, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Section 117 aftercare responsibilities, Adult Safeguarding egislation, and associated statutory guidance.
• Assessment Skills: Proven ability to undertake complex assessments, support planning, risk assessments, and discharge planning.
• Safeguarding Experience: Experience undertaking safeguarding enquiries and managing safeguarding concerns involving vulnerable adults.
• Multi-Agency Working: Strong experience working collaboratively with health services, housing providers, community organisations, carers, families, and partner agencies.
• Communication Skills: Excellent communication, report-writing, analytical, negotiation, and decision-making skills.
• Professional Practice: Commitment to strengths-based, recovery-focused, and person-centred social work practice.

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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