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Palliative
Care Social Worker Band 5
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Date: 6 November 2025
Location:
Multisite Working across our Erdington &
Selly Park Hospices
Hours: 37.5 per week
Salary: Clinical Band 5, £29,117 - £35,445 per year
DBS Requirement: Enhanced
Make a real difference at Birmingham Hospice
Were here to improve quality of life for
people with life-limiting conditionsand to support their families through some
of lifes most difficult moments.
Were
looking for a compassionate Palliative Care Social Worker to join our dedicated
team.
Our
Social Workers provide expert emotional and practical support to patients and
those close to them, helping them navigate the challenges of a palliative
diagnosis and ensuring dignity at every stage of care.
About the Role
Deliver a coordinated family support service across both hospice sites.
Work closely with the Senior Social Worker and wider multi-disciplinary team to ensure high-quality, compassionate care.
Support patients, families, carers, and communities with emotional and practical needs.Champion best practice in palliative and end-of-life care, collaborating with internal and external professionals.
Apply your expertise in safeguarding, DoLS, the Mental Capacity Act, and related legislation.Complete assessments and applications for Social and Fast Track CHC care packages to ensure timely, appropriate support.
Main duties of the job
What Youll Bring
You will be a registered social
worker with Social Work England (you must include your registration number on
your application)
You will hold a full clean
driving licence.
You will be a sound communicator
who is authentic, open, honest, transparent, and has a track record of working
inclusively with a genuine appreciation of the value of diversity.
Why Join Us?
Be part of a forward-thinking, values-driven
charity
Enjoy a generous benefits package including
enhanced annual leave
If coming from the NHS or another hospice continuous
service benefits for pension and annual leave
Make a real difference in peoples lives when
they need it most
For further information or an informal chat, please
email:
maxine.jones@birminghamhospice.org.uk or rachel.harrison@birminghamhospice.org.uk
About us
Birmingham Hospice provides expert palliative and end of
life care for people and their families living with life-limiting illnesses.
We believe that all people in Birmingham should have access
to the best specialist care and support - when, where and how they need it. Our
vision is a future where everyone with a life-limiting illness will live and
die with dignity and in comfort. Our mission is to enable more people from all
communities to access the care of their choice at the end of life.
During a recent CQC inspection our sites have been rated
outstanding, with independent health care regulators highlighting that
colleagues and services are caring, responsive and well-led.
Our outstanding teams are passionate about providing the
very best care, and patients and their loved ones are at the heart of
everything we do.
Our values of kindness, respect, innovation, togetherness,
positivity and openness are at the centre of who we are, what we do and how we
behave. We pride ourselves on being an inclusive, welcoming, caring and
supportive team. We are offering a competitive salary, with generous holiday
allowance, a contribution pension scheme, and a commitment to investing in our
people through employee benefits and ongoing professional development.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Title:
Palliative Care Social Worker
Department:
Social Hub
Hospice Band:
Hospice Clinical Band 5 Development Post
Requirements
Essential
Desirable
How identified
Education and Qualifications
- Recognised Social Work Qualification.
- Registration with Social Work England.
- Knowledge of relevant voluntary and statutory agencies and their perspectives relating to palliative care.
- Knowledge of current legislation relevant to role including MCA / DOLS/ Carers legislation, Care Act 2014, etc
- Full driving licence.
Knowledge and Experience
- Understanding and experience of multi-disciplinary team working.
- Good understanding of the Mental Capacity Act, and other relevant legislative frameworks.
- Good understanding of Safeguarding and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) .
- Experience gained in working with adults during student training.
- Experience of working with children and families during student training.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills and to be able to use these effectively in a variety of settings, with individuals and groups, children and adults.
- To be able to undertake a needs led assessment, planning and negotiating skills, to ensure high quality assessment and timely outcomes for people.
- Ability to work effectively in an emotionally stressful environment.
- Ability to be creative and supportive in the role of Palliative Care Social Worker, and appropriately apply a range of social work methods and interventions.
- Able to plan and manage own workload and activities.
- Provide social work advice and support to the multi professional team.
- Able to travel between Hospice and peoples homes, in the West Midlands Area.
Personal skills and attributes
Commitment to and ability to demonstrate Birmingham Hospice values and behaviours at all times
Able to maintain the highest professional standards at all times, and act as a true ambassador for the Hospice.
To be authentic, open honest and transparent
Have a track record of working inclusively and a genuine appreciation of the value of diversity
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Title:
Palliative Care Social Worker
Department:
Social Hub
Hospice Band:
Hospice Clinical Band 5 Development Post
Requirements
Essential
Desirable
How identified
Education and Qualifications
- Recognised Social Work Qualification.
- Registration with Social Work England.
- Knowledge of relevant voluntary and statutory agencies and their perspectives relating to palliative care.
- Knowledge of current legislation relevant to role including MCA / DOLS/ Carers legislation, Care Act 2014, etc
- Full driving licence.
Knowledge and Experience
- Understanding and experience of multi-disciplinary team working.
- Good understanding of the Mental Capacity Act, and other relevant legislative frameworks.
- Good understanding of Safeguarding and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) .
- Experience gained in working with adults during student training.
- Experience of working with children and families during student training.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills and to be able to use these effectively in a variety of settings, with individuals and groups, children and adults.
- To be able to undertake a needs led assessment, planning and negotiating skills, to ensure high quality assessment and timely outcomes for people.
- Ability to work effectively in an emotionally stressful environment.
- Ability to be creative and supportive in the role of Palliative Care Social Worker, and appropriately apply a range of social work methods and interventions.
- Able to plan and manage own workload and activities.
- Provide social work advice and support to the multi professional team.
- Able to travel between Hospice and peoples homes, in the West Midlands Area.
Personal skills and attributes
Commitment to and ability to demonstrate Birmingham Hospice values and behaviours at all times
Able to maintain the highest professional standards at all times, and act as a true ambassador for the Hospice.
To be authentic, open honest and transparent
Have a track record of working inclusively and a genuine appreciation of the value of diversity
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Understanding and experience of multi-disciplinary team working.
- Good understanding of the Mental Capacity Act, and other relevant legislative frameworks.
- Good understanding of Safeguarding and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) .
- Experience gained in working with adults during student training.
- Experience of working with children and families during student training.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills and to be able to use these effectively in a variety of settings, with individuals and groups, children and adults.
- To be able to undertake a needs led assessment, planning and negotiating skills, to ensure high quality assessment and timely outcomes for people.
- Ability to work effectively in an emotionally stressful environment.
- Ability to be creative and supportive in the role of Palliative Care Social Worker, and appropriately apply a range of social work methods and interventions.
- Able to plan and manage own workload and activities.
- Provide social work advice and support to the multi professional team.
- Able to travel between Hospice and peoples homes, in the West Midlands Area.
- Intermediate IT skills.
Personal Skills and Attributes
Essential
- Commitment to and ability to demonstrate Birmingham Hospice values and behaviours at all times
- Able to maintain the highest professional standards at all times, and act as a true ambassador for the Hospice.
- To be authentic, open honest and transparent
- Have a track record of working inclusively and a genuine appreciation of the value of diversity
Qualifications
Essential
- Recognised Social Work Qualification.
- Registration with Social Work England.
- Knowledge of relevant voluntary and statutory agencies and their perspectives relating to palliative care.
- Knowledge of current legislation relevant to role including MCA / DOLS/ Carers legislation, Care Act 2014, etc
- Full driving licence.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Understanding and experience of multi-disciplinary team working.
- Good understanding of the Mental Capacity Act, and other relevant legislative frameworks.
- Good understanding of Safeguarding and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) .
- Experience gained in working with adults during student training.
- Experience of working with children and families during student training.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills and to be able to use these effectively in a variety of settings, with individuals and groups, children and adults.
- To be able to undertake a needs led assessment, planning and negotiating skills, to ensure high quality assessment and timely outcomes for people.
- Ability to work effectively in an emotionally stressful environment.
- Ability to be creative and supportive in the role of Palliative Care Social Worker, and appropriately apply a range of social work methods and interventions.
- Able to plan and manage own workload and activities.
- Provide social work advice and support to the multi professional team.
- Able to travel between Hospice and peoples homes, in the West Midlands Area.
- Intermediate IT skills.
Personal Skills and Attributes
Essential
- Commitment to and ability to demonstrate Birmingham Hospice values and behaviours at all times
- Able to maintain the highest professional standards at all times, and act as a true ambassador for the Hospice.
- To be authentic, open honest and transparent
- Have a track record of working inclusively and a genuine appreciation of the value of diversity
Qualifications
Essential
- Recognised Social Work Qualification.
- Registration with Social Work England.
- Knowledge of relevant voluntary and statutory agencies and their perspectives relating to palliative care.
- Knowledge of current legislation relevant to role including MCA / DOLS/ Carers legislation, Care Act 2014, etc
- Full driving licence.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
