Medical Social Worker

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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