# Social Worker WCC625215

**Company**: Westminster City Council
**Location**: City of Westminster, Greater London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: GBP 44,331 - 56,154 per year
**Category**: Social Care
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

As a Social Worker with our Hospital Discharge Team, you can make your own powerful contribution to Westminster's success. Based in St Mary's Hospital and operating across the Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster City Council, you'll work closely with health colleagues within an acute setting, and be an active member of a ward multi-disciplinary team.

Undertaking assessments of need and developing support plans that help patients with their discharge from hospital, you'll also undertake safeguarding investigations and Mental Capacity Act assessments, and work with carers and other professionals to minimise and manage risk while helping each patient to maintain their chosen lifestyle.

Offering advice and information to your colleagues and other stakeholders on the role of the social worker and the service we provide, you'll join our urgent response and duty system and participate in developments to our service. Committed to ensuring that your professional registration and DBS are kept up to date, we'll also expect you to be responsible for your own CPD, and participate in appraisals, audits, evaluations, reflective practice and team meetings.

It's essential that you work in line with all our policies and procedures, including health and safety, data and case recording, supervision, data protection and information governance, and you should be ready to inform your manager of any significant events relating to the service.

Dedicated to undertaking best interest and practice teacher training as part of your development, you'll also take part in Trusted Assessor training – this will enable you to prescribe simple equipment and assistive technology that helps to maximise your customers' independence.

With this in mind, you'll adopt an inter-disciplinary approach to your work and collaborate with all our partners in order to achieve best outcomes.

To be a success in this vital role, you should have a CQSW/Diploma in Social Work, a Degree in Social Work or its equivalent, be registered as a member of Social Work England, and have some post-qualifying experience in a relevant Local Authority or Health setting. It's crucial that you have well-developed knowledge of relevant legislation, a good understanding of the principles of personalisation, independence and choice, and experience of working with older or physically disabled people in a Social Services Duty System.

You'll have worked in both a multi-disciplinary way and an acute setting, and in addition to possessing experience of assessment work, you'll enjoy working in a collaborative team environment. Capable of carrying out accurate assessments and promoting self-directed care, your superb written and verbal communication skills will see you interacting well with everyone you work with, and producing high-quality reports for carers and other professionals.

With the ability to work independently, use your initiative, prioritise workloads and meet deadlines, you should also have confident computer skills, with a particular focus on Microsoft's suite of software. Able to negotiate with other agencies on behalf of the Commissioning Authority and service users, you'll be a proactive worker with the skills to pre-empt, prevent and manage any issues that arise.

In addition to the above, Westminster City Council offers flexible working patterns and Agile working. The Council is a Disability Confident Employer and guarantees an interview if you declare a disability and meet the essential criteria.

## Skills

### Required
- CQSW/Diploma in Social Work
- Degree in Social Work
- Microsoft suite of software
- Mental Capacity Act assessments
- safeguarding investigations

### Nice to have
- communication in a language other than English

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