Hospital Discharge Social Worker Jobs

Are you looking for the best choice of hospital discharge social worker jobs available in the UK?

Liquid can help you find your perfect role in hospital discharge. We have a variety of exclusive temporary and permanent hospital discharge social worker jobs available at NHS trusts across the country, offering excellent pay rates and many other benefits.

As a hospital discharge social worker, you’ll be part of a multidisciplinary team providing support for adult service users requiring assessment and delivering services to support their safe and timely discharge from hospital.

Interested? Browse some of our latest hospital discharge worker roles below, and don’t forget to check out our hospital discharge social worker FAQs.

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Hospital discharge social work FAQs

What’s the role of a social worker in the hospital discharge team?

You’ll work closely with doctors, nurses, and other professionals to undertake a range of activities to facilitate discharges within the Discharge to Assess Framework, including assessing for and arranging nursing and residential placements and generic packages of care.

Hospital discharge social workers help service users with the following:

  • Hospital discharge to their home or another place of care, such as nursing and residential placements
  • Getting in touch with agencies who can help them, especially after discharge
  • Helping them to keep safe
  • Offering advice about money and benefits
  • Helping them make important social and medical decisions
  • Hospital travel costs and applications to charities
  • Helping with any housing worries
  • Offering guidance and support to family and primary carers
What experience do I need?

We’re looking for qualified social workers with a degree in social work (or equivalent) who are registered with Social Work England, eligible to work in the UK and hold post-qualifying experience in:

  • Adult social care
  • Completing Mental Capacity Assessments/ Best Interest Meeting
  • Undertaking person-centred assessments of adults and their families and carers
  • Setting up packages of care and support planning
  • Dealing with safeguarding enquiries and referrals

It’s also important that you’re up to speed with the relevant legislation.

What service users will I work with?

You’ll be supporting adult service users requiring assessment and delivering services to support their safe and timely discharge from hospital. As a hospital discharge social worker, you’ll also be working with service users with cognitive impairments.

Where do you have hospital discharge social worker jobs?

We have a variety of exclusive temporary and permanent hospital discharge social worker jobs available at NHS trusts across the country. Browse our latest roles.

How many hospital discharge social worker jobs do you have?

The demand for hospital discharge social workers tends to increase as we head into the winter months. Still, at any one time, we have a wide variety of hospital discharge social worker jobs across the country to choose from. Take a look here.

Why choose Liquid?

At Liquid, we know social work. With unparalleled knowledge of the sector and a focus on forming invaluable relationships with you, our professionals, you can be sure you’ve come to the right people. Our promise is to bring you the most exciting range of social work opportunities to find you your next perfect role and further your career.

When working with Liquid, you’ll benefit from:

  • Access to a wide selection of social work positions across the UK, some of which you won’t find with any other agency
  • Your own dedicated consultant with extensive social work knowledge
  • Free DBS and compliance service
  • Twice weekly payroll
  • Free access to Liquid’s exclusive social work training and CPD portal
  • Refer a friend bonus

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