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Liquid Personnel
Lancashire, United Kingdom

Locum Adult Social Worker - Hospital Discharge Team

Social WorkerIncludes callContract

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Posted 5mo ago

Job Description

Liquid Personnel is recruiting an Adult Social Worker to join its client’s Hospital Discharge team, based in Lancashire.

What Will Your Responsibilities Be?

Provide statutory social work support — delivering professional social work interventions and fulfilling legal duties under adult social care legislation.

Promote independence and recovery — completing strengths‑based assessments and enabling individuals to achieve the best possible outcomes.

Coordinate safe hospital discharges — working closely with health partners to ensure timely, appropriate discharge planning and community support.

Benefits

  • Immediate start with initial 3 month contract
  • Supportive and Friendly Team
  • Supervision and Training

Qualifications and Experience

  • To be successful in this role you must have;
  • Social Work England registration
  • Eligible to work in the UK
  • Hold a full UK driving licence
  • Post-qualified experience
  • Degree level or equivalent in Social Work

Why Liquid Personnel?

  • Free DBS and compliance service
  • Twice weekly payroll and ‘Faster Pay’ service, getting you paid more quickly
  • 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.

Reasonable Adjustments

If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity by contacting our team. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.

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.

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Key Responsibilities

The social worker will provide statutory support and deliver professional interventions under adult social care legislation. They will also coordinate safe hospital discharges by working closely with health partners to ensure timely community support.

Requirements

Candidates must have Social Work England registration and a degree level or equivalent qualification in Social Work. A full UK driving licence and post-qualified experience are also required.

Qualifications

Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Hospital discharge planningCase managementMulti-agency collaborationRisk assessmentCare planningSafeguardingRecovery promotionIndependence promotion

Social Worker Career Context

Of the 50 active Social Work listings this role was benchmarked against, 64% are remote, 22% have no call, 50% require no weekends.

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Annual compensation range

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401k / retirement match
100%
Sign-on bonus
52%
CME allowance
22%
Loan repayment
11%
PSLF eligible
4%

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Work-life snapshot

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Better work-life than 20% of Social Work listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 6,492 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

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About Liquid Personnel

Staffing and Recruiting
Manchester, Lancashire
51-200 employees

Benefits & Perks

Immediate start with initial 3 month contract
Supportive and Friendly Team
Supervision and Training
Free DBS and compliance service
Twice weekly payroll and 'Faster Pay' service
Access to exclusive roles
Free CPD portal
Dedicated consultant