Social Work Lead (Grade 10)

Social Work Leads work within our locality, hospital or learning disabilities teams.

Social Work Leads manage a team of social workers and social care practitioners, taking accountability for the quality of social work practice. Managing this team, Social Work Leads take a lead role in encouraging practitioners to:

• listen to people and connect them to appropriate community resources
• support people in crisis to regain control of their lives
• to support individuals to lead the life they choose in line with the Care Act

The Social Work Lead will be experienced in leadership and supervision within social work and will provide support in relation to all aspects of casework and referrals, as well as co-working complex cases. They will manage a team towards excellence, ensuring the service provided is effective and high performing.

"My job is quite unique in Adult Social Care. I am the Social Work Lead who manages the front door hub for the hospital. The front door hub includes the emergency department at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital and duty line admission avoidance to the hospital.

"My day-to-day work is to support the team, to prevent adults who are medically unstable for discharge to be admitted to hospital and support with safeguarding. My team is really multicultural and diverse. The team is really welcoming, really supportive and I believe our team is quite emotionally resilient because we have dealt with a lot of challenges. It’s really rewarding because we support people when they are in a crisis and having the sense of you help them in a really hard crisis to me is really rewarding every day." Social Work Lead, Hospital Discharge and Assessment Team