# Social Worker

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for St Michael’s Hospice.

## Canonical URLs

- **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/social-worker/ca9d4451-97eb-46f6-8029-f9f73254a577
- **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/social-worker/ca9d4451-97eb-46f6-8029-f9f73254a577.md

## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** St Michael’s Hospice
- **Location:** St Michael's Hospice, Hereford, HR1 4HA, United Kingdom
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Social worker
- **Salary:** £19.24 to £21.44
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Part-time
- **Closing date:** 2026-11-01T23:59:59.999Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-08T10:11:55.506Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/B0210-26-0015
- **Application URL:** https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/application/B0210-26-0015/pre-application-questions-pause?referrer=jobadvert&ref=B0210-26-0015
- **Employer website:** https://www.st-michaels-hospice.org.uk/

## Job Content

### Job summary

We are looking for an experienced and qualified Social Worker to join our friendly Supportive Care team. Reporting to the Social Work Lead, you will be a key member of the multi-professional team collectively responsible for planning and delivering responsive, compassionate, efficient and effective support. Working pan-hospice (across all care services), you will be providing direct psychosocial support to patients, families, carers and children (including bereavement support) considering cultural, spiritual, psychological, social and financial issues. You will also provide advice and support for the wider hospice team around responding to safeguarding issues within palliative care.

### Main duties of the job

We are looking for someone who has excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Is highly motivated and enjoys working with a diverse and at times complex caseload. Proven ability to manage own caseload and work autonomously with support from colleagues is essential. The right candidate will be fully qualified and have an up to date Social Work England registration. Due to the nature of this role, you will be dealing with sensitive information so a need for confidentiality is key. This post is conditional to an enhancedDisclosure and Barring Service(DBS)Check. We are looking to recruit someone to work 22.5 hours per week (9-5), over 3 days a week (days to be confirmed). This role will require occasional evening and weekend working.

### About us

St Michael's Hospice is nestled in the stunning Herefordshire countryside, in a state-of-the-art facility. We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, a transferrable NHS pension or you can enrol onto our own Hospice pension. We offer Life Assurance, a superb working environment and facility, generous study leave allowance, discounts with local suppliers, individualised training needs analysis, advanced communication skills training, employee counselling service, free tea & coffee, a friendly & welcoming work environment and 30 days annual leave (pro rata if applicable), plus bank holidays. We are one of the top 100 best not for profit organisations to work for and have been caring to make a difference, to patients living with a terminal illness and their families, across Herefordshire and beyond for over 40 years.

### Details

- Date posted: 08 October 2026
- Pay scheme: Other
- Salary: £19.24 to £21.44 an hour
- Contract: Permanent
- Working pattern: Part-time
- Reference number: B0210-26-0015
- Job locations: St Michael's Hospice, Hereford, HR1 4HA, United Kingdom

### UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

## Person Specification

### Experience

**Essential**

- Social work experience in complex environments with responsibility for managing own case load.

**Desirable**

- Experience of working with social work students
- Experience of working with:
- Grief, loss, death and bereavement, welfare benefits, children, adolescents, family work, group work, Volunteers

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- Qualified social worker, CQSW, DIPSW degree or equivalent
- Professional registration with Social Work England

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