Birmingham Hospice is committed to improving the quality of life for people living with life-limiting conditions, as well as supporting their families and loved ones during one of the most challenging periods they will ever face.

We are looking to recruit an empathetic Palliative Care Social Worker to join our team of dedicated social workers at Birmingham Hospice.

Our Palliative Care Social Workers at Birmingham Hospice specialise in working in partnership with patients who require specialist palliative or end-of-life care in addition to supporting their families, those they are close to and their communities. Using their specific skills and knowledge to help people to deal with the impact of a diagnosis, including emotional support, to have a good life and a good death.

In this role you will be responsible for ensuring the provision of a coordinated family support service across both hospice sites. Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team (MDT), you will support the senior palliative care social worker to ensure that the service provides high standards of support to patients, their families, carers, loved ones and communities.

You will help to influence and enhance best practice in palliative and end-of-life care involving both internal and external professional providers and agencies. You will be well-versed in safeguarding, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS), have a thorough understanding of the Mental Capacity Act and other relevant legislative frameworks.

As part of the social team, you will help to provide the assessments and applications for both Social and Fast Track CHC packages of care to ensure that the highest standards are maintained and that support to our patients and loved ones are provided at the right time.

The successful candidate will be a registered social worker with Social Work England and hold a full clean driving licence. You will be a sound communicator and will be authentic, open, honest, transparent and have a track record of working inclusively with a genuine appreciation of the value of diversity.

In return we provide the opportunity to be part of an amazing charity and team which offers generous holiday entitlement, wellbeing programmes, comprehensive training and the opportunity to develop your career as a social worker.

For further information or an informal chat, please to rachel.harrison@birminghamhospice.org.uk or maxine.jones@birminghamhospice.org.uk

For more details, please read the job description.