Hospital Discharge Mental Health Social Worker: Sponsorship Available

Job Summary

East London Nhs Foundation Trust, Mental Health Care of Older People team, is looking for an enthusiastic and proactive individual to provide patient case management to improve discharge flow of City and Hackney Older adult patients.

The successful individual will be part of a community and ward based team consisting of nursing, therapy, social work, and admin team members. You will be working closely with the inpatient, health and social care partners to ensure safe and timely discharges and minimise barriers, improving patient experience across discharge pathways.

You will also contribute to the discharge planning of older adults admitted into General hospital or working age inpatient wards who need support to be discharged.

You will be part of a wider community team delivering a discharge to assess model of care in the community. You will be supported by the CMHT Operation lead, Senior Social Worker Practitioner, Senior Lead Nurse, Senior Clinical lead OT, and will work closely with system partners including acute staff, local authorities, voluntary agencies and the ICB.

Main duties of the job

You will work as a Discharge Social Worker, representing a social work perspective to older adults experiencing mental health difficulties.

As a Discharge Social Worker, you will be a champion of the social model of intervention within the discharge process from Acute Inpatient Wards and General hospital Wards and will ensure that social factors contributing towards the mental health difficulties are recognised and addressed as far as possible.

You will be expected to work in partnership with service users and carers, identifying and utilising strengths and working closely with other agencies and voluntary groups to ensure good outcomes which, as far as possible, maintain independence.

You will have a good working knowledge of The Care Act, Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act/DOLS and other social care legislation. Within the team it is vital that Social Workers including the Discharge social worker maintain a social perspective to their work and promote social care issues within the team.

As part of your role, you will offer expert advice and guidance to the inpatient colleagues on adult safeguarding matters, including writing reports and representing/supporting conferences and other relevant meetings.

You will complete post discharge 7 day follow up and 6 week review prior to handing case over to the community Care Coordinator.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 20 April 2025