Employer: Medway Community Healthcare
Job Title: Specialist Social Worker
Location: United Kingdom
Salary: £38,682 to £46,580 per annum
Job Type: Full-time
Closing Date: 31 December 2025
Job Summary
Are you a qualified social worker registered with Social Work England who wishes to work in a therapeutic environment?
Do you want to provide interventions for patients with palliative and life limiting conditions and their loved ones?
Do you want to work across a variety of settings including in the patient unit, clinic, domiciliary and wellbeing and therapy centre?
If you answer yes to all these questions then this is the role for you.
Main Duties of the Job
There is an exciting opportunity for a Social Worker to join the specialist palliative care family and carers support team at Medway Community Healthcare (MCH), based at the Wisdom Hospice. The MCH team provides specialist palliative care services in the community and within the Medway NHS Foundation Trust.
The Wisdom Hospice unit has 15 beds and an active Wellbeing and Therapy Centre, a community team, hospital based team and physical therapy team as well as a family carers and support team and an army of volunteers.
There will be opportunities to practise across all settings and participation in service development is expected. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in ensuring patients and their families benefit from the highest standards of specialist palliative care.
About Medway Community Healthcare
This is an opportunity to join a progressive and innovative service in a social enterprise that is patient and staff focused, with the opportunity to become an MCH shareholder.
Medway Community Healthcare encourages staff to get involved in exploring new ways of working and service development.
Well established, in-service training, one-to-one supervision, and appraisals with regular support are provided.
There are opportunities to develop skills in a friendly and supportive team.
Flexible working is supported. As a flexible working friendly organisation, Medway Community Healthcare recognises the importance of work life balance and aims to accommodate working arrangements that are best for staff, patients and the organisation.
The Small Print
Informal visits can be arranged on request.
There is a choice of two pension schemes: the NHS Pension Scheme and the Scottish Widows Group Pension Scheme.
Medway Community Healthcare encourages all staff to be double COVID vaccinated to protect themselves, colleagues, family and patients.
Job Description
Job Responsibilities
The aim is to provide an efficient, effective, high quality palliative care social work service for people affected by serious illness and bereavement. The social work service contributes to a multi-disciplinary approach to care and is concerned with the psychological, social and spiritual wellbeing of service users.
Issues of living with life limiting illness, impending death, anticipatory grief, loss and bereavement are core components of this role. Care is delivered across inpatient, Wellbeing Centre and community settings.
The post holder will be required to hold a complex caseload, provide support, guidance and teaching to other disciplines on aspects of good practice in psychosocial care, and participate in therapeutic group work programmes to deliver a high-quality person-centred service. The post holder is expected to facilitate safeguarding and reflective practice of palliative staff.
Full JD can be found in the vacancy attachments.
Person Specification
Registration
Essential:
Qualified Social Worker
Desirable:
Palliative Care Experience
Transportation
Essential:
Valid full driving licence
Access to a car for work purposes
Experience
Essential:
2 years post qualified
Desirable:
Good understanding of grief and loss theories
Flexibility to work in group or 1:1 settings
IT Skills
Essential:
Proficient with IT
MCH Values
Essential:
Good understanding of MCH values
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and requires a Disclosure and Barring Service check to assess any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled Worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Further information is available via the UK Visas and Immigration website.
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants applying for entry clearance into the UK are required to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided in for 12 months or more within the past 10 years. Adult dependants are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found under criminal records checks for overseas applicants.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. Further information is available via the NHS Careers website.
How to Apply
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