Job Title: Medical Social Worker
Location: Raheen, Limerick
Contract Type: Full-Time, Permanent (35 hours per week)
Salary: In line with HSE Medical Social Worker Pay Scales
This is a highly sought after Medical Social Worker job in Limerick, offering the chance to work in a modern, purpose-built 80-bed step-down facility supporting older persons transitioning from acute hospitals back to home or community care.
Excel Recruitment are recruiting a Medical Social Worker, to join a brand new 80 bedded step down facility in Limerick. This is an exciting opportunity to lead, influence, and shape a service, while making a real and lasting impact on patients and their families at a critical stage of recovery.
As a Senior Medical Social Worker, you will be a vital member of the multidisciplinary team, ensuring that each patient’s psychosocial needs are fully assessed and supported. You will take ownership of a complex and varied caseload, working closely with patients, families, and healthcare professionals to deliver safe, effective, and person-centred discharge plans.
You will be a key member of the Multi Disability Team, ensuring that each patient’s psychosocial needs are fully assessed, addressed, and incorporated into safe, robust discharge planning.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide high-quality medical social work assessment and intervention to patients and families experiencing illness, trauma, or functional decline.
- Support patients in adjusting to illness, injury, or changes in independence, offering emotional, practical, and psychosocial support.
- Work closely with the multidisciplinary team to support holistic care planning and safe, effective discharge planning.
- Assess social circumstances, family dynamics, housing, safeguarding concerns, and support needs.
- Advocate on behalf of patients and families to ensure access to appropriate community supports, services, and resources.
- To develop robust and comprehensive patient care plans/discharge plans in partnership with the patient, their family and the multi-disciplinary team to effect detailed and safe transfer to the community setting.
- Carry a caseload that incorporates for example cases that are a mix of complex, urgent, emergency, priority, routine, generic, episodic, and acute and many more.
- Maintain awareness of the primacy of the patient in relation to all activities.
- Participate in regular and routine supervision incorporating the functions of supervision including case management, accountability, and role in the agency, professional development/research, reflective practice and mediation amongst other aspects of the process.
- To provide a comprehensive social work and counselling service to all patients and their families.
- To develop strong co-working multi-disciplinary professional relationships that foster person centre patient care collaboratively.
- Support patients and families with complex decision-making, including capacity, consent, and care planning where required.
Essential Requirements:
- Recognised qualification in Social Work.
- CORU registration as a Social Worker (essential).
- Strong knowledge of safeguarding, capacity legislation, and ethical practice
- Experience working in a medical, healthcare, or hospital setting.
- Experience working with older persons (desirable)
- Strong assessment, intervention, and advocacy skills.
- Experience working with adults and families experiencing illness, disability, or social vulnerability.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and multidisciplinary working skills.
- Ability to manage a varied and complex caseload effectively.
Why Join This Service:
- Permanent, full-time role within an HSE-supported service.
- Opportunity to work in a modern, patient-centred transitional care environment.
- Be part of a collaborative and supportive multidisciplinary team.
- Make a meaningful impact on patient outcomes, wellbeing, and safe discharge.
- Access to supervision, CPD, and professional development opportunities.
How to Apply
For further information or to apply, please contact Charlene Cooke at Excel Recruitment on 089 945 5139 for a confidential discussion.
Job Title: Medical Social Worker
Location: Raheen, Limerick
Contract Type: Full-Time, Permanent (35 hours per week)
Salary: In line with HSE Medical Social Worker Pay Scales
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a modern 80 bedded step-down facility, to support older persons transitioning from acute hospital care to home or community settings.
This service focuses on rehabilitation, reablement, and safe discharge planning in a warm, homely, single-occupancy ensuite environment. You will play a pivotal role in shaping the social work service from the outset and making a real, lasting impact on patients and families at a critical stage in their recovery journey.
This role will suit a Medical Social Worker who:
- Is confident working autonomously and taking ownership of complex cases
- Has a genuine passion for older persons services
- Values multidisciplinary collaboration while maintaining professional independence
- Wants to be part of building a new service from the ground up
You will be a key member of the Multi Disability Team, ensuring that each patient’s psychosocial needs are fully assessed, addressed, and incorporated into safe, robust discharge planning.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide high-quality medical social work assessment and intervention to patients and families experiencing illness, trauma, or functional decline.
- Support patients in adjusting to illness, injury, or changes in independence, offering emotional, practical, and psychosocial support.
- Work closely with the multidisciplinary team to support holistic care planning and safe, effective discharge planning.
- Assess social circumstances, family dynamics, housing, safeguarding concerns, and support needs.
- Advocate on behalf of patients and families to ensure access to appropriate community supports, services, and resources.
- To develop robust and comprehensive patient care plans/discharge plans in partnership with the patient, their family and the multi-disciplinary team to effect detailed and safe transfer to the community setting.
- Carry a caseload that incorporates for example cases that are a mix of complex, urgent, emergency, priority, routine, generic, episodic, and acute and many more.
- Performance management systems are part of the role and you will be required to participate in the Group’s performance management programme and this will be undertaken on a regular and routine basis as directed by the Director of Clinical Services and the Principal Social Worker.
- Maintain awareness of the primacy of the patient in relation to all activities.
- Participate in regular and routine supervision incorporating the functions of supervision including case management, accountability, and role in the agency, professional development/research, reflective practice and mediation amongst other aspects of the process.
- To provide a comprehensive social work and counselling service to all patients and their families.
- To develop strong co-working multi-disciplinary professional relationships that foster person centre patient care collaboratively.
- Support patients and families with complex decision-making, including capacity, consent, and care planning where required.
Essential Requirements:
- Recognised qualification in Social Work.
- CORU registration as a Social Worker (essential).
- Strong knowledge of safeguarding, capacity legislation, and ethical practice
- Experience working in a medical, healthcare, or hospital setting.
- Experience working with older persons (desirable)
- Strong assessment, intervention, and advocacy skills.
- Experience working with adults and families experiencing illness, disability, or social vulnerability.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and multidisciplinary working skills.
- Ability to manage a varied and complex caseload effectively.
Why Join This Service:
- Permanent, full-time role within an HSE-supported service.
- Opportunity to work in a modern, patient-centred transitional care environment.
- Be part of a collaborative and supportive multidisciplinary team.
- Make a meaningful impact on patient outcomes, wellbeing, and safe discharge.
- Access to supervision, CPD, and professional development opportunities.
How to Apply
For further information or to apply, please contact Charlene Cooke at Excel Recruitment on 089 945 5139 for a confidential discussion.
Job Title: Medical Social Worker
Location: Raheen, Limerick
Contract Type: Full-Time, Permanent (35 hours per week)
Salary: In line with HSE Medical Social Worker Pay Scales
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a modern 80 bedded step-down facility, to support older persons transitioning from acute hospital care to home or community settings.
This service focuses on rehabilitation, reablement, and safe discharge planning in a warm, homely, single-occupancy ensuite environment. You will play a pivotal role in shaping the social work service from the outset and making a real, lasting impact on patients and families at a critical stage in their recovery journey.
This role will suit a Medical Social Worker who:
- Is confident working autonomously and taking ownership of complex cases
- Has a genuine passion for older persons services
- Values multidisciplinary collaboration while maintaining professional independence
- Wants to be part of building a new service from the ground up
You will be a key member of the Multi Disability Team, ensuring that each patient’s psychosocial needs are fully assessed, addressed, and incorporated into safe, robust discharge planning.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide high-quality medical social work assessment and intervention to patients and families experiencing illness, trauma, or functional decline.
- Support patients in adjusting to illness, injury, or changes in independence, offering emotional, practical, and psychosocial support.
- Work closely with the multidisciplinary team to support holistic care planning and safe, effective discharge planning.
- Assess social circumstances, family dynamics, housing, safeguarding concerns, and support needs.
- Advocate on behalf of patients and families to ensure access to appropriate community supports, services, and resources.
- To develop robust and comprehensive patient care plans/discharge plans in partnership with the patient, their family and the multi-disciplinary team to effect detailed and safe transfer to the community setting.
- Carry a caseload that incorporates for example cases that are a mix of complex, urgent, emergency, priority, routine, generic, episodic, and acute and many more.
- Performance management systems are part of the role and you will be required to participate in the Group’s performance management programme and this will be undertaken on a regular and routine basis as directed by the Director of Clinical Services and the Principal Social Worker.
- Maintain awareness of the primacy of the patient in relation to all activities.
- Participate in regular and routine supervision incorporating the functions of supervision including case management, accountability, and role in the agency, professional development/research, reflective practice and mediation amongst other aspects of the process.
- To provide a comprehensive social work and counselling service to all patients and their families.
- To develop strong co-working multi-disciplinary professional relationships that foster person centre patient care collaboratively.
- Support patients and families with complex decision-making, including capacity, consent, and care planning where required.
Essential Requirements:
- Recognised qualification in Social Work.
- CORU registration as a Social Worker (essential).
- Strong knowledge of safeguarding, capacity legislation, and ethical practice
- Experience working in a medical, healthcare, or hospital setting.
- Experience working with older persons (desirable)
- Strong assessment, intervention, and advocacy skills.
- Experience working with adults and families experiencing illness, disability, or social vulnerability.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and multidisciplinary working skills.
- Ability to manage a varied and complex caseload effectively.
Why Join This Service:
- Permanent, full-time role within an HSE-supported service.
- Opportunity to work in a modern, patient-centred transitional care environment.
- Be part of a collaborative and supportive multidisciplinary team.
- Make a meaningful impact on patient outcomes, wellbeing, and safe discharge.
- Access to supervision, CPD, and professional development opportunities.
How to Apply
For further information or to apply, please contact Charlene Cooke at Excel Recruitment on 089 945 5139 for a confidential discussion.
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