Job title: Social Worker
Location: Southleigh Community Hospital, 42 Brighton Road, South Croydon, Surrey, CR2 6AA
Rate Of Pay: £42,000 Per Year
Shift Patterns: 37.5hrs a Week - 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday
Information about the Role:
· Ensure that all care, assessment, and treatment is delivered within the clinical ethos of the unit.
· Be responsible for maintaining positive links with patient’s family, friends, and external services such as care co-ordinators, Care commissioning groups and third sector services such as MIND charity.
· Be responsible for ensuring the highest standard of clinical practice is achieved and that the social care delivered to patients is of a consistently high standard.
· Work closely with other professional staff ensuring a consistent pattern of care for each individual patient.
· Establish and maintain high standards of professional practice and levels of care.
· Help to ensure that the admission, leave and discharge of patients is appropriately and sensitively organised and achieved with the minimal amount of disruption to the patient.
Information about the Service:
At Southleigh Community Hospital we can accommodate up to 27 service users in 21 single en-suite bedrooms and 6 semi-independent apartments. These flexible apartments can be used to prepare service users for more independent living or alternatively to accommodate service users who require high lev...