IDT Senior social worker
| Posting date: | 05 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £42,939.00 to £50,697.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £42939.00 - £50697.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 June 2025 |
| Location: | LONDON, NW10 7NS |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9333-25-0729 |
Summary
Please see above for detailed job description and main responsibilities. Attend the weekly bed management meetings and take an active role in challenging delays in discharge. Develop positive working relationships with key stakeholders, including local commissioners ( health & local authority) To develop effective relationships with housing providers, tenancy support teams and benefit agencies specific to the Borough. Verification of purpose of admission and expected length of stay for all new admissions to the hospital. Ensure ward staff have identified an Expected Date of Discharge (EDD) and identify likely pathway out of hospital early during their inpatient stay. Ensure that tenancies are maintained whilst in hospital and that independence is maximised on discharge. Where necessary, to take a lead in commencing discharge planning until such stage as community care coordinator is appointed To provide robust assessment of need and risk assessment with due regard to the principles of personalization, balancing risk, choice and control to produce a care plan, which demonstrates consideration of the least restrictive option. Work to facilitate / broker positive risk taking over cases between the ward and HTT. Pre-empt, accelerate homelessness unit input / liaison. Investigate cases that are about to pass / have passed projected milestone/ discharge dates in the acute care pathway i.e., discharge review, discharge plan in place, discharge date. Work with communities and employers to ensure the individual maintains links with their community supports whilst an inpatient. Develop positive working relationships with the local housing teams and placements panel and have an excellent understanding of the paperwork required to present to panel for funding. Support care coordinators with complex cases that require continuing care funding or where there is a complex family situation preventing safe discharge, including liaison with Childrens Services when necessary, where there are children involved. Ensure early liaison with the community teams of pending discharges to HTT or direct to community.