Specialist Palliative Care Social Worker
At St Lukes, every role helps us provide compassionate, person-centred palliative and end-of-life care. We’re looking for a Specialist Palliative Care Social Worker to join our multidisciplinary team and make a meaningful difference for patients with life-limiting illness, and for the families, carers and communities around them.
Main duties of the job
You will provide a specialist social work service within palliative care, offering assessment, guidance and support to people living with life‑limiting conditions and to those important to them. Working across inpatient, outpatient and community settings, you’ll act as a key social work resource within the Hospice, bringing expert advice and intervention to support holistic care, including safeguarding and legal frameworks such as the Mental Capacity Act (MCA), best‑interest decision‑making and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS).
Job responsibilities
- Manage a complex and sometimes unpredictable caseload, prioritising need and risk across hospice and community settings.
- Undertake holistic assessments considering social, emotional, psychological, spiritual, cultural, financial and practical needs.
- Provide direct therapeutic and supportive interventions to individuals, families and carers (1:1, family or group work, as appropriate).
- Support people affected by loss, grief and bereavement, including around end‑of‑life care.
- Contribute to discharge planning, transitions of care and joint working with statutory and voluntary services.
- Provide advocacy and guidance relating to benefits, housing, financial support and access to services.
- Offer safeguarding advice and support to colleagues; apply MCA/DoLS and safeguarding frameworks in day‑to‑day practice.
- Work effectively within the multidisciplinary team (MDT), contributing to meetings, handovers and case discussions.
- Maintain accurate records and contribute to audit, service evaluation, research and quality improvement.
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 to submit a disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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