We Are St Helens Borough Council
Located in the heart of the Northwest close to Liverpool, Manchester and Lancashire, St Helens is a transformational Council which is passionate and ambitious for the communities we support. We provide a wide range of local authority services to the residents, businesses, schools, and visitors to the borough. We can only do this because of our highly valued, highly skilled workforce.
Working together, our workplace vision and values guide our organisation, and the contribution of our workforce is key to our culture journey. Employees with us receive a wide range of benefits including well-being in work, financial benefits, ways of working and learning and development support.
Making A Difference as a Social Worker in Contact Cares, Integrated Discharge Team
Our very busy Integrated Discharge Team based at Whiston Hospital and St Helens Hospital is recruiting a Social Worker
The team has a skills mix of staff who work alongside the multi disciplinary team on each ward. The purpose of the post is to assess patients needs, arrange appropriate packages of care, facilitate safe and timely discharges, refer onto voluntary organisations, identify carers needs and signpost to the most appropriate service, for information and support. We will support you with professional supervision, appraisal and training. The team is part of Contact Cares and benefits from also working with services in the community.
- Are you the person we are looking for?
- Do you have the knowledge, skills and experience to deliver a high quality service within a health and social care team?
- Have you a 'can do' and enabling approach, good communication skills and work as part of a team?
- Can you operate with a high level of professional autonomy?
This Authority is committed to safeguarding and promoting welfare of Adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.