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Ref no: SBO09049
Published: 16/04/2025
Closes: 30/04/2025
Location: Borders General Hospital Melrose, TD6 9BS
Salary: £31,219.15 - £34,248.64 per year
Contract Type: Permanent
Position Type: Full Time
Hours: 35 hours per week
Role Purpose
We are pleased to be able to offer the opportunities to join the Social Work Assessment Team at Borders General Hospital.
We would welcome your application to join us as Health Social Care Co-ordinator. This is a predominantly office-based role within Borders General Hospital.
We are a multi-disciplinary team with both Social Work and NHS working in partnership with service users, carers, family members, and external agencies to facilitate discharges from an acute hospital and Intermediate care settings. You'll work to strict timetables in a fast-paced environment providing reports and other data relating to delayed discharges within NHS Borders. Additionally, you'll provide administrative and technical support to meet the demand around multi-agency work, discharge management, and complex cases.
You'll manage a small team providing admin support to the BGH Social Work team. Scottish Borders Council prides itself on being a great place to work where staff are trusted, valued, and supported to make a positive contribution at work.
We offer a competitive salary, generous Pension Scheme, and annual leave entitlement as well as access to a number of additional employee benefits and a wide range of learning and development opportunities.
An HNC or SVQ Level 3 in Social Care or Business Administration (e.g., Business Studies, Public Administration, Administration and Information Management, Information Technology) or be able to demonstrate equivalent knowledge, skills, and competencies gained through relevant experience.
Scottish Borders Council is committed to improving the diversity of its workforce to better reflect the communities we serve. We welcome applications from all minority groups and individuals who identify with one or more of the protected characteristics as defined by the Equality Act 2010. In particular from candidates who assess themselves as having a disability, under the Disability Confident Employer scheme this guarantees an interview to those individuals who meet the essential criteria of the post. All appointments will be made on merit.
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