Senior Palliative Care Social WorkerinSt Albans inSt AlbansPUBLISHED FRI 20 DEC 2024

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Leadership Role, As a Senior Palliative Care Social Worker, you will oversee the Social Worker Assistant team, providing leadership and guidance that fosters professional growth.

Holistic Support, You'll play a crucial role in assessing and addressing the emotional, social, and practical needs of patients and their families, ensuring comprehensive care.

Multi-Disciplinary Team Collaboration, Being part of a multi-disciplinary team allows for collaboration with various professionals, enriching your practice and enhancing patient outcomes.

Expertise Development, This position offers opportunities to develop and demonstrate advanced social work practices, furthering your skills and expertise in palliative care.

Policy and Service Improvement, You will actively participate in the development and implementation of policies and service improvements, contributing to the overall effectiveness of care delivery.

Training and Mentorship, The role includes providing training and supervision, allowing you to mentor students and volunteers while enhancing the skills of the clinical team.

Community Impact, Working with diverse organizations and engaging in partnerships will amplify your influence, helping to establish timely support for carers and improving the overall welfare of the community.

The Senior Palliative Care Social Worker at Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care in St Albans is responsible for managing the Social Worker Assistant team within the Inpatient Unit, facilitating discharge planning, and providing comprehensive emotional and practical support to patients and their families. This role serves as a key resource for the Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT), offering guidance on psychosocial care, safeguarding issues, and contributing to the development of service improvement initiatives.

Additionally, the Senior Social Worker will oversee welfare clinics, manage well-being volunteers, and ensure adequate support coverage while delivering training on safeguarding practices to clinical staff. The role demands advanced social work skills to autonomously assess and implement care plans while fostering collaboration with external organisations and maintaining up-to-date knowledge on relevant policies and regulations. An enhanced DBS check is required due to the nature of the work with both adults and children.

Leadership Role, As a Senior Palliative Care Social Worker, you will oversee the Social Worker Assistant team, providing leadership and guidance that fosters professional growth.

Holistic Support, You'll play a crucial role in assessing and addressing the emotional, social, and practical needs of patients and their families, ensuring comprehensive care.

Multi-Disciplinary Team Collaboration, Being part of a multi-disciplinary team allows for collaboration with various professionals, enriching your practice and enhancing patient outcomes.

Expertise Development, This position offers opportunities to develop and demonstrate advanced social work practices, furthering your skills and expertise in palliative care.

Policy and Service Improvement, You will actively participate in the development and implementation of policies and service improvements, contributing to the overall effectiveness of care delivery.

Training and Mentorship, The role includes providing training and supervision, allowing you to mentor students and volunteers while enhancing the skills of the clinical team.

You will be responsible for the Social Worker Assistant team in the Inpatient Unit (IPU); overseeing discharge planning and the provision of practical, social and emotional support services for patients and their families.

You will also act as a resource person for all members of the MDT (Multi-Disciplinary Team) in relation to psychosocial aspects of patient and family care, providing social work support and advice to the Community teams and Outpatient Services.

You will participate in the implementation, audit and review of policies procedures and systems for the delivery of an effective specialist palliative care service and lead on / contribute to the development of service improvement initiatives across Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care.

You will provide expert advice, guidance and training for members of the MDT on safeguarding concerns and referrals, maintaining effective links with relevant external partner organisations

The post holder will lead on the practice of social working across Rennie Grove Peace (RGP) demonstrating advanced social work practice, as an independent autonomous practitioner utilising advanced skills to assess, plan and implement social work care.

The post holder will oversee practical and psychosocial support to inpatients and their families/carers and the discharge planning process (working with statutory providers of care).

The post holder will provide social work support and advice to the Community teams and Outpatient Services, including assisting setting up welfare clinics.

The Post holder will line manage the social worker assistant, developing and supervising students, overseeing a team of wellbeing volunteers and ensuring there is adequate cover throughout the week to provide appropriate support for patients, including spiritual care.

This post needs an enhanced DBS check as you will be working with children as well as adults, for example through family support.

Provide monthly Safeguarding training for clinical staff as part of the clinical induction programme, including MCA, DoLS, chaperone and support the safeguarding lead on relevant audits, policies and guidance regarding these topics.