Join our outstanding-rated Trust as a Band 6 Social Worker in the Safeguarding and Social Work Team at Royal Papworth Hospital. You'll play a vital role in supporting patients with complex health and social care needs, including those with long-term conditions, terminal illness, and safeguarding concerns. Working within a multidisciplinary team, you'll lead holistic assessments, contribute to safe discharge planning, and act as a key liaison with external agencies.
This role offers opportunities for professional development, supervision of junior staff, and involvement in service improvement. We're looking for a compassionate, resilient practitioner with strong knowledge of the Care Act, Mental Capacity Act, and safeguarding legislation. If you're committed to excellence, collaboration, and making a real difference in patient care, we'd love to hear from you.
We are seeking a compassionate and skilled Band 6 Social Worker to join our Safeguarding and Social Work Team at Royal Papworth Hospital. You will provide a comprehensive social work service across the hospital, supporting patients with complex needs, long-term conditions, and safeguarding concerns. Working autonomously within a multidisciplinary team, you will contribute to safe discharge planning, psychosocial reviews, and safeguarding strategy meetings.
You will have a strong understanding of relevant legislation including the Care Act, Mental Capacity Act, and Children Act, and be confident in conducting holistic assessments, mental capacity evaluations, and best interest decisions. Experience in mentoring, supervision, and delivering training is desirable.
We are looking for someone with excellent communication skills, emotional resilience, and a commitment to upholding our values of Compassion, Excellence, and Collaboration. Join us in making a difference in the lives of vulnerable patients while developing your career in a supportive and outstanding-rated Trust.
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.
Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe, the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust values compassion, excellence, and collaboration, which all colleagues are expected to uphold in their roles and interactions.
Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages applications from all backgrounds. Applicants with disabilities meeting the minimum post criteria will be offered an interview.
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