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The salary for this role is 40,929 per annum based on a 36-hour working week.
We are excited to be recruiting a Social Worker to join our fantastic Royal Surrey Hospital team. The team is based in Guildford and covers the Royal Surrey County Hospital, Milford and Haslemere Hospitals. We are a friendly team with a strong emphasis on promoting personal and professional development and progression.
What we can offer you:
- 26 days' holiday (prorated for part time staff), rising to 28 days after 2 years' service and 30 days after 5 years' service
- Option to buy up to 10 days of additional annual leave
- An extensive Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) to support health and wellbeing
- Up to 5 days of carer's leave per year
- Paternity, adoption and dependants leave
- A generous local government salary related pension
- Lifestyle discounts including gym, travel, shopping and many more
- 2 paid volunteering days plus 1 team volunteering day per year
- Learning and development hub where you can access a wealth of resources
- Investing in individual growth and career progression
- Ensuring our workplaces and practices are supportive and inclusive
About the Team
The team is based within the Royal Surrey County Hospital which is one of five Surrey's acute hospital teams and consists of qualified and non-qualified staff. In addition to the Royal Surrey Acute Hospital the team also supports discharges from the community rehab beds at Milford and Haslemere hospitals.
Patients are supported on discharge with packages of care to return to living in the community or short term placements under discharge to assessment framework enabling assessment post discharge within a set timeframe as they regain their independence to the maximum.
About the role
Your work will include but not limited to, Care Act assessments, Mental Capacity Assessments, screening residents for Continuing Healthcare, Carers assessments, Safeguarding work and partnership working with our Hospital NHS colleagues, including Discharge to Assess. You will also work closely with Adult Social Care Locality Teams and community Health, charity and voluntary organisations.
The role is a really fantastic opportunity to promote Strengths-based and person-centred practice in supporting our residents to be discharged from an acute hospital setting in a safe and timely manner, involving the resident, their family and Carers in the process and working with partners to ensure presenting care and support needs are met in a personalised manner.
We are proud to say you will be well supported with regular supervision, management support as well as peer-to-peer learning and support. You will work within a fantastic team that works closely with our Health colleagues, enabling a positive and collaborative approach to our work.
This service runs from 8am to 8pm Monday to Friday and 9am to 5pm Saturday and Sunday. In practice, you are likely to be required to work a minimum of one weekend shift per month and one late shift per week. Staff who are on the rota to work a shift falling on a weekend will be given a day off in lieu. Full-time applicants will be contracted to a 36-hour week and these hours will be worked on a rota basis across 7 days a week. The role will require being based onsite each working day. Further information regarding the working pattern can be discussed at interview.
