Job title: Social Worker – Contact Cares IDT Team
Company: St Helens Borough Council
Job description: We Are St Helens Borough Council
Located in the heart of the Northwest close to Liverpool, Manchester and Lancashire, St Helens is a transformational Council which is passionate and ambitious for the communities we support. We provide a wide range of local authority services to the residents, businesses, schools, and visitors to the borough. We can only do this because of our highly valued, highly skilled workforce.
Working together, our workplace vision and values guide our organisation, and the contribution of our workforce is key to our culture journey. Employees with us receive a wide range of benefits including well-being in work, financial benefits, ways of working and learning and development support.
Making A Difference as a Social Worker in Contact Cares, Integrated Discharge Team
Our very busy Integrated Discharge Team based at Whiston Hospital and St Helens Hospital is recruiting a Social Worker
The team has a skills mix of staff who work alongside the multi disciplinary team on each ward. The purpose of the post is to assess patients needs, arrange appropriate packages of care, facilitate safe and timely discharges, refer onto voluntary organisations, identify carers needs and signpost to the most appropriate service, for information and support. We will support you with professional supervision, appraisal and training. The team is part of Contact Cares and benefits from also working with services in the community.
– Are you the person we are looking for?
– Do you have the knowledge, skills and experience to deliver a high quality service within a health and social care team?
– Have you a ‘can do’ and enabling approach, good communication skills and work as part of a team?
– Can you operate with a high level of professional autonomy?
This Authority is committed to safeguarding and promoting welfare of Adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Interested to Find Out More?
You can review our full job description details, and person specification information here.
For an informal discussion about the post please contact Angie Waugh on 0151 430 1024.
This post is subject to Enhanced DBS Disclosure
Please note we reserve the right to close the advert early should we receive a sufficient number of applications and encourage you to apply early, to avoid disappointment.
Equality & Diversity
St Helens Council respects and values the individuality that every employee brings. We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds, who share our values, our commitment to inclusion, and who will help us on our journey to transform our organisation. Further information about Equality & Diversity at St Helens Council can be found here https://www.sthelens.gov.uk/equality
St Helens Council is a Disability Confident Employer. Disability Confident Employers lead the way in helping to take action that changes attitudes, behaviours, and cultures for the better.
NOLAN Principles of Conduct in Public Life.
All Council employees are required to abide by the ethical standards embodied by the 7 Nolan
Principles: Selflessness, Integrity, Objectivity, Accountability, Openness, Honesty, and Leadership.
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Location: St Helens, Merseyside
Job date: Fri, 15 Dec 2023 07:28:31 GMT
