An exciting job role has recently become available at the London Borough of Lewisham. They are looking for a new member for their Hospital Discharge Team. Duties : Provide guidance and support to less experienced staff to help them develop their professional skills and knowledge Manage an allocated caseload appropriate to the extensive experience of the Experienced Social Worker, to include complex assessments of children, families and parenting and other work to meet statutory requirements. Work with children and young people, families, carers and communities to help them make informed decisions, engender change enabling them to clarify and express their needs,and contribute to service planning. Undertake specialist assessments, for your and other workers� cases, for court proceedings, including parenting and kinship assessments. Ensure that casework is up to date, comprehensively written up, and managed within agreed timescales Ensure your manager is kept fully appraised of problems arising from cases or work load and to seek advice as and when necessary. To ensure information about risk is escalated to managers in a timely manner. Keep up to date with contemporary issues in childrens social work including legislation and evidence based practice and use this to inform working practice. What we are looking for in a Social Worker: Social Work England registration Eligible to work in the UK Hold a full UK licence Post-qualified experience Degree level or equivalent in Social Work Why Liquid Personnel? New 'Faster Pay' service getting you paid more quickly Twice weekly payroll Free DBS and compliance service Access to exclusive roles that aren't available from other agencies Free access to Liquid’s exclusive social work training and CPD portal Your own dedicated consultant with extensive social work knowledge Access to a wide selection of social work positions across the UK "Refer a Friend" bonus - get £500 for each social worker you refer who we successfully place "Find your own job" bonus - get £250 for bringing your own position to us Liquid Personnel is an equal opportunities employer. Liquid Personnel Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. Terms and conditions apply to our bonus schemes. We are unable to support or accept applications from candidates who are residents within the Red or Amber list of the Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England, based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) Workforce Support and Safeguard List. BH - 186264 GH - 26222