Social Worker
Job Description
Job summary
Permanent role of up to 30 hours per week.
Would you like to work in a stunning location, that offers great career development where you can achieve a great work-life balance? Join our Discharge to Assess Team as a Social Worker.
Livewell Southwest is one of the largest independent social enterprises in England. We work as part of the NHS family in a similar way to GPs, dentists and pharmacies. Our 3,000-strong workforce delivers health and social care to people in Plymouth, South Hams and West Devon, as well as some specialist services to people living in parts of Cornwall and Devon.
Livewell Southwest champions a positive work-life balance and offers multiple flexible working options.
Livewell Southwest are currently looking for Social Workers within it Discharge to Assess Pathway.
Livewell Southwest is fully committed to an integrated health and social care workforce which operates a shared skills model, whilst adhering to the core principles of the social work profession.
Job Share(s) Considered
Please note that this role may not be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route.
Please note that Livewell may close the job advertisement earlier than the specified deadline if a high number of applications are submitted. Therefore, we recommend you submit your application at the earliest opportunity.
All Livewell staff are expected to be able and willing to work across a 7 day service.
Main duties of the job
Discharge to Assess (DTA) is a dynamic and multi-skilled team consisting of nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, community care workers and support workers. Our purpose is to support a safe and timely hospital discharge of people who are medically fit, and no longer need hospital care, to a place more suitable to the persons needs. Assessments and care provision can then be tailored to support people to regain strengths and skills so that they can live as independently as possible.
The DTA model aims to support better outcomes of people leaving hospital.
The post holder is required to discharge statutory social care functions on behalf of the organisation and to uphold the standards outlined in the Professional Capabilities Framework for Social Work.
As such, they are required to undertake complex and proportionate assessments that are evidence-based. Examples include Mental Capacity assessments and Care Act Assessments of people who have a variety of needs that may create a high level of risk to their well-being. The post holder is also required to arrange and review the delivery of social care support.
Wherever possible the post holder is required to support people to take risks in complex situations so that their outcomes and wishes are promoted. The post holder is also required to undertake safeguarding investigations and consider decisions made in a persons best interest that may deprive them of their liberty.
About us
Livewell Southwest is an independent, award-winning social enterprise delivering integrated health and social care services across Plymouth, South Hams, and West Devon, with specialist services in parts of Devon and Cornwall. Our teams work in community hospitals, GP practices, sports centres, and health hubs.
As an organisation with a strong social conscience we are guided by our values, kindness, respect, inclusivity, ambition, responsibility, and collaboration. We focus on transforming services to ensure sustainability, while empowering staff and those we serve.
We involve the people we care for, along with their families and carers, in shaping the care they receive, striving to deliver the right care at the right time and place. Centering our work on individual needs helps people lead healthy, independent lives.
We prioritise employees' development, offering protected CPD time, training pathways, leadership programs, and funding for qualifications like the Care Certificate and Nurse Training Scholarships. Our induction and preceptorship programs ensure a smooth transition into our organisation.
Livewell Southwest values diversity and encourages applications from all sections of the community, including those with armed forces experience, lived experience of mental health, neuro-diverse conditions and learning disabilities. If you need assistance or reasonable adjustments during the application process, contact the Recruiting Manager listed in the job advert.
Job responsibilities
Responsibility for People Management
Supervise and or train students and colleagues as and when required to ensure their practice is safe and professional.
Provide supervision on a one to one basis or through peer supervision as and when required to ensure practice is safe and professional.
Support the delivery of induction training for new staff within the service as and when required to ensure practice is safe and professional.
Responsibility for financial and or physical resources
Responsibility for the occasional short term security of a persons cash, legal documentation or valuable items e.g. house keys until they can be securely deposited.
Duty to consider best value option when planning for peoples care and support.
Responsibility for administration
Plan and organise day to day work using an online calendar, recording systems, and workload management tools that are available on the intranet in accordance with departmental guidelines.
Ensure records are timely, kept up to date, accurate and used in accordance with the GDPR and organisational guidelines.
Have a good understanding of the various computer programmes essential for the completion of daily work such as Microsoft office.
Arrange and plan meetings with colleagues and/or people who use services and be willing to chair them if required.
Responsibility for people who use our services
Maintain contact with people who use our services either face-to-face, telephone or assistive technology such as video links and conference calls.
Design, implement and review care and support plans, which may involve the input of other professionals and disciplines.
Work to a number of protocols and procedures such as lone working, risk management and health and safety.
Complete carers assessments and seek feedback from people who use the service.
Learning some basic clinical skills to enable the undertaking of holistic assessments and liaison with the multi disciplinary team.
Take an asset based approach, including signposting to universal services, advice and information and considering the persons links and integration with their community and services such as advocacy.
Duty of candour and supporting people to make complaints if they wish too.
Increased level of responsibility and autonomy in relation to analysing and making professional judgements, informed by practice experience and underpinned by theory and best practice guidance.
Ability to work independently, utilising knowledge and skills with regular support from management, work is managed rather than supervised. Ability to act following broad policies and regulations, working within guidelines and protocols, utilising monthly supervision.
Responsibility for implementation of policy and or service developments
Contribute ideas and advocate on behalf of the people who use our services towards the development and implementation of policies and or services.
Work in other teams and across the organisation in order to support organisational demands and pressures.
Represent the team and organisation on planning or developmental groups as and when required.
A flexible and adaptable approach to organisational change.
Other Responsibilities
Correct use of computer hardware and software; security; processing and generating information, creating, updating and maintaining information databases.
Awareness of current social care research trends and to take part in development activities, such as Safeguarding Adult Reviews.
COMMUNICATIONS AND RELATIONSHIPS
Maintain positive working relationships and communicate clearly with team colleagues, line manager, other professionals, people who use our service and their families and carers which may include highly sensitive issues.
Listen to and work in partnership with the people who use our services and families and carers.
Maintain professional conduct and communicate clearly when faced with competing demands and in situations that are potentially highly emotive, such as being challenged by families or other professionals.
Present evidence based decisions and judgements about potentially complex ambiguous situations in a manner fit for the audience. This includes writing court reports, explaining legal requirements to people and their families and projecting social work values in a multidisciplinary setting.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS OF THE JOB
Travel between different offices to attend meetings.
Visit people at home, community setting e.g. cafe, hospital, care home or prison. Visiting people in their own homes may be ...
