Position: Social Worker – Adult Sensory & Physical Disability Services
Location: Drogheda
Contract: Full-Time Agency Contract
Start Date: Immediate
Salary: HSE Pay Scale (commensurate with experience)
Are you a CORU-registered Social Worker with a passion for supporting adults with sensory and physical disabilities to live independently and safely within the community?
Excel Recruitment are currently recruiting a Social Worker to join the Adult Sensory and Physical Disability Team, within a HSE service in Louth. This is an excellent opportunity to work within a supportive multidisciplinary team, playing a key role in facilitating safe and timely hospital discharges while supporting individuals to transition back into their homes and communities.
This role offers the opportunity to work directly with adults who have complex physical or sensory needs, ensuring they have access to the supports, services, and resources required to maintain independence, dignity, and quality of life.
Key Responsibilities:
- Conduct comprehensive psychosocial assessments for adults with sensory and physical disabilities.
- Support and facilitate hospital discharge planning, ensuring appropriate community supports are in place.
- Work collaboratively with acute hospitals, community teams, and allied health professionals to ensure seamless care transitions.
- Advocate on behalf of service users to access housing, community services, financial supports, and disability services.
- Provide emotional support, guidance, and practical assistance to service users and their families.
- Contribute to person-centred care planning and ongoing case management.
- Work closely with the multidisciplinary team including Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Nurses, and other healthcare professionals.
- Maintain accurate clinical records and reports in line with HSE policies and professional standards.
- Support service users to exercise their rights, autonomy, and decision making capacity.
Essential Requirements:
- CORU Registration as a Social Worker (essential).
- Experience working with adults with physical disabilities, sensory disabilities, or complex health needs.
- Experience supporting hospital discharge planning or transition to community services.
- Strong knowledge of community resources, disability supports, and multidisciplinary team working.
- Excellent communication, advocacy, and assessment skills.
- Knowledge or experience of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015.
- Experience working in disability services, community teams, or acute hospital settings.
Apply Today:
For more information about this opportunity, please reach out confidentially to Charlene Cooke by email or contact Charlene by telephone 089-9455139.
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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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Excel Recruitment is currently recruiting for a Registered Manager on a permanent full-time basis, based in the Downpatrick area.
Our client is a growing not-for-profit and established organisation that has helped over 1,000 young people who suffer from mental health illnesses, complex needs, and challenging behaviours, over the last 15 years.
This client is growing in Northern Ireland, so this is an excellent opportunity to join our client as they grow their services and continue to provide life-changing support. You’ll have the opportunity to manage a settled and established team based in a four-bedroom residential home.
Responsibilities:
- With a full copy of the Job Duties and Person Spec available on request, working closely with the Area Manager, you’ll have full responsibility for all aspects of management of the home, ensuring the highest standards possible in line with all requirements and regulations.
- You’ll also work alongside multi-disciplinary stakeholders, ensuring effective communication, while demonstrating a commitment to our client’s values and the ethos of the organisation.
Requirements:
- Degree in Social Work and NISCC Registration Part 1
- 2 years minimum of residential experience; working with complex needs and challenging behaviours in a residential setting.
- 2 years minimum experience in managing Residential Children’s homes or similar
- Full clean driving licence for one year or more
Benefits:
- £42,000 – £43,000 per year
- Flexible, and where possible, remote working options
- Staff benefit package
- Bonus enhancements post-probation and further ahead
- Strong induction and continued personal development
For more information on this excellent opportunity please submit your CV to Wes via the link below or contact Wes on 02891 422 191.
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