SWRK 6026 - G2 Trusted Assessor (610121)

ACTUAL CLOSING DATE: Applications must be received by 22 November 2026 at 11:55pm.

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Location: Hairmyers Hospital, East Kilbride (with travel across South Lanarkshire)
Hours: 35hrs per week, temporary for 12 months
Salary / Hourly Rate: £37,702 - £38,779

We are looking for two Trusted Assessors to help ensure people leave hospital safely, quickly and with the right support in place.

Based within the Integrated Discharge Hub at Hairmyres University Hospital, you will work closely with care homes, health professionals, social work staff, individuals, and their families to support smooth and timely hospital discharges. The role aims to reduce unnecessary delays, improve outcomes for people using services, and make the discharge process more straightforward and effective.

The Trusted Assessor plays an important coordinating role, providing advice, support, and oversight throughout the assessment and discharge process. Acting as a key link between partners, you will help ensure decisions are made promptly and that people receive the right care in the right place at the right time.

This is a temporary one-year post, subject to review and evaluation.

Key Responsibilities

• Undertake high-quality assessments and reassessments on behalf of residential and nursing care homes to support safe and timely discharge from hospital.

• Work closely with hospital teams and partner agencies to coordinate communication and provide a single point of contact for those involved in a person's discharge.

• Support care homes to complete their own assessments, ensuring agreed timescales are met and avoidable delays are minimised.

• Act as the main point of contact for Care Home Managers, providing advice, coordinating assessments and discharge arrangements, offering professional support and reassurance, and ensuring timely follow-up throughout the discharge process.

• Work collaboratively with care homes to promote consistent practice and the use of an agreed assessment tool.

• Where required, complete assessments using care home-specific documentation while ensuring consistency with agreed quality standards and discharge requirements.

• Communicate assessment outcomes clearly and effectively with individuals, families and multidisciplinary partners.

• Maintain accurate and secure electronic records in line with data protection and information governance requirements.

• Identify opportunities to improve processes and contribute to service development and continuous improvement.

• Record activity and performance information accurately to support monitoring, evaluation and reporting.

• Promote awareness and understanding of the Trusted Assessor role across hospital and care home settings.

• Contribute to local and national service development activities, including participation in the National Community of Practice for Trusted Assessors

View the Trusted Assessor job profile.

About You

You will be a skilled, proactive and confident professional with experience in assessment, care planning and partnership working. You will be passionate about achieving the best outcomes for people and supporting safe, timely and person-centred hospital discharges.

You will be able to demonstrate:

• Excellent communication, relationship-building and coordination skills.
• A person-centred and strengths-based approach, with a focus on achieving positive outcomes.
• The ability to build effective working relationships across health, social work and independent sector services.
• A sound understanding of hospital discharge processes and the factors that can contribute to delayed discharge.
• Strong assessment, decision-making and problem-solving skills.
• The ability to manage competing priorities, work independently and respond flexibly in a fast-paced environment.
• Confidence in influencing, supporting and challenging practice where appropriate to achieve positive outcomes.

Experience of working with care homes, hospital discharge services, community care or integrated health and social care services would be highly desirable.

Additional Information

• The post is based within the Integrated Discharge Hub at Hairmyres University Hospital.
• Regular travel across South Lanarkshire is required to support assessments, partnership working and service delivery.
• This is a temporary one-year post, subject to review and evaluation.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in improving discharge pathways, reducing delays and supporting people to move to the right care setting at the right time.

Please Apply online - All correspondence will be via your email address

Preferred candidates identified after the selection event process will be required to assist the recruitment team, if need be, to ensure timely completion of recruitment checks. If recruitment checks are not completed within a reasonable timescale, you may automatically be withdrawn from this position.

Canvassing of Elected Members or employees of South Lanarkshire's Council directly or indirectly in connection with any appointment within the Council shall disqualify the applicant.

Legislative Information

This post is excepted in terms of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Scotland Act 2020.

This post is considered a Regulated Role with Adults, in respect of the Disclosure Scotland Act 2020. Therefore, it is an offence to apply if you are barred from working with Adults.

Preferred candidates will be required to join the PVG Scheme, or undergo a PVG Scheme Update check, prior to a formal offer of employment being made.

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Overseas Criminal Records Check

An Overseas Criminal Records Check is required where applicants born outside the UK (Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland) or who have lived or worked outside the UK for a continuous period of 12 months in the past 10 years.

Applicants are responsible for providing evidence of the Overseas Criminal Record Check. The check must be translated into English and should come from the police, judicial authority, government department or home embassy of the country or countries concerned. The check must include an official statement confirming that the applicant does not have any history of or pending criminal record proceedings. Checks may be carried out to authenticate the documents provided.

Equal Opportunities and Inclusion statement

The Council is committed to fostering equality, diversity and inclusion in its workforce. Therefore, we welcome applications from all sectors of the community, including under-represented groups within our workforce. We are keen to receive applications from candidates who have a disability, who are from a care experienced background, who are from a black, Asian or minority ethnic background, from a military service background and from those who are new Scots.

As a Disability Confident employer, we guarantee an interview to all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria as outlined in the job profile for this position.

As proud holders of the UK Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award, the Council is also committed to supporting members of the armed forces community, including service leavers, veterans, reservists and their families. In line with this commitment, service leavers, their close family members, veterans and reservists will be guaranteed an interview if they meet the essential criteria as outlined in the job profile

As an employee of South Lanarkshire Council, you would also receive a wide range of benefits including:

• Enrolment in award winning local government pension scheme
• To increase the value of their pension pot, Local Government Employees can opt to join the Salary Sacrifice Shared Cost AVC scheme.
• Up to 33 days annual leave
• Public holiday entitlement (up to 10 days)
• Occupational sick pay
• Family friendly policies - flexible working and leave, maternity/paternity leave enhanced leave.
• Employee Discounts – including discounts at the cinema.
• Range of benefits to support you (Cycle to Work Scheme, Physiotherapy, Employee Assistance Program which offers practical and emotional support)