Social Worker
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 10 Mehefin 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £37,338.00 i £40,888.00 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £37338.00 - £40888.00 a year |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 23 Mehefin 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Taunton, TA1 5HA |
| Cwmni: | NHS Jobs |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | B0386-25-0017 |
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Job Purpose The Social Worker at St. Margarets is a specialist practitioner with extensive knowledge, skills and competency to manage a complex caseload of patients with advanced, progressive life limiting disease. They will undertake the holistic assessment, planning and delivery of a consistently high standard of specialist palliative and supportive care in accordance with the hospice policy, procedures and standards. To work with the clinical teams, under the guidance of the supportive care lead, to ensure, the social and supportive care needs of all patients and families using the service are assessed and where possible met. To support all clinical staff in relation to safeguarding knowledge and expertise. The main objective is to provide expert safeguarding support to all clinical staff, patients, families, and carers within a hospice setting, ensuring the welfare of vulnerable adults and children. This includes managing safeguarding concerns, promoting best practices, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to deliver compassionate, patient-centred care. The post-holder will be working as an integrated member of the multi-disciplinary team in the Hospice and in the community. They will establish effective working relationships with all external organisations from Adult Social Care, Primary and Secondary Health Care teams, and act as a resource for professionals and non-professionals involved in palliative care within the community. They will take responsibility for own clinical caseload of complex clients working as an autonomous practitioner, without direct supervision. They will be instrumental in the training and development of more junior and support staff, including the oversight of the social work assistant and multi-disciplinary assistants social care work Clinical: Responsible for a caseload of varying complexity, commensurate with ability and qualifications, receiving and responding to referrals from various sources. To undertake a comprehensive assessment of patients and carers including those with diverse or complex presentations/multi-pathologies using advanced clinical reasoning skills and assessment techniques. Follow the integrated care programme approach and risk assessment to protect the safety of individuals. Provide information, written assessments, reports and statements to support other service professionals, managers and agencies in making decisions related to care. Maintain client records to a high standard in accordance with relevant legislation, policy and procedures. Plan and agree service responses, resources, needs and support and develop realistic care plans to meet identified individual needs/circumstances. Recognise the importance of Preferred Priorities of Care at end of life for patient and their families and aim to facilitate patient choice. Promote peoples equality, diversity and rights and develop, maintain and evaluate systems and structures in an anti-discriminatory way. Maintain IT systems relating to client information and input. Develop knowledge and practice and contribute to the development of policy and practice. Participate in agreed Post Qualifying training and professional development programmes. Supervise the work of unqualified, vocationally qualified staff or students as agreed. Provide specialist advice and act as a resource for the multi-disciplinary team. Administer corporate appointee ships and consider the need to make applications to the Court of Protection for patients who lack capacity. Protect the property, including animals, belonging to people who are admitted into hospital/hospice. To be professionally accountable for all aspects of own work. To identify health and social care problems requiring assessment/intervention from other agencies and with the consent of the patient action those referrals. To assess patients capacity and ability to consent to options and understanding of associated risks, working within the relevant legislations and policy/procedures. To manage clinical risk within own patient caseload. To work within St Margarets Hospice clinical guidelines, the social work Professional Standards, have a good working knowledge of national and local standards and monitor own and others quality of practice as appropriate.