Liquid Personnel is recruiting Social Worker for its client's Locality Team at Bournemouth.
This is an excellent opportunity for a dedicated practitioner to support adults with complex care and support needs through strengths-based, person-centred social work practice.
The successful candidate will manage a varied and complex caseload, working with adults experiencing a range of needs including dementia, learning disabilities, physical disabilities, mental ill-health, substance misuse, self-neglect, hoarding behaviours, and domestic abuse. Working closely with individuals, carers, families, health professionals, housing providers, and partner agencies, you will promote independence, wellbeing, safeguarding, choice, and control whilst delivering high-quality Adult Social Care interventions.
This role requires a confident Social Worker with strong assessment, safeguarding, risk management, and multi-agency working skills who can effectively manage complex and high-risk situations.
What will your responsibilities be?
- Managing a caseload of complex and high-risk cases involving adults with diverse care and support needs.
- Undertaking strengths-based Care Act 2014 assessments, reviews, reassessments, and support planning.
- Determining eligibility for services in accordance with the Care Act 2014 and relevant statutory guidance.
- Developing, implementing, and reviewing person-centred Care and Support Plans that promote independence, wellbeing, and positive outcomes.
- Coordinating interventions across health services, housing providers, voluntary organisations, and community resources.
- Supporting adults experiencing dementia, learning disabilities, physical disabilities, mental ill-health, substance misuse, self-neglect, hoarding behaviours, and domestic abuse.
- Undertaking safeguarding enquiries under Section 42 of the Care Act 2014 and coordinating multi-agency safeguarding responses.
- Leading complex safeguarding investigations and ensuring adults at risk are involved in decision-making wherever possible.
- Completing Mental Capacity Assessments and leading Best Interest decision-making processes in accordance with the Mental Capacity Act 2005.
- Working collaboratively with Independent Mental Capacity Advocates (IMCAs), families, carers, and other professionals where appropriate.
- Assessing and managing risk through the development of proportionate risk assessments and risk management plans.
- Reviewing care packages to ensure they remain appropriate, outcome-focused, and cost-effective.
- Supporting individuals to access community resources, preventative services, and informal support networks.
- Attending safeguarding meetings, case conferences, multidisciplinary meetings, and professional forums.
- Maintaining accurate, timely, and legally compliant records, assessments, reports, and case documentation.
Qualifications & Experience:
To be successful in this role you must have,
- Professional Qualification: MA, BA, BSc in Social Work, Diploma in Social Work, CQSW, CSS, or equivalent recognised Social Work qualification.
- Registration: Must be registered with Social Work England.
- Experience: Significant post-qualified experience within Adult Social Care services.
- Complex Case Management: Experience working with adults presenting with complex needs, high-risk situations, and multifaceted social care issues.
- Legislation Knowledge: Strong understanding of the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Adult Safeguarding legislation, Human Rights legislation, and associated statutory guidance.
- Assessment Skills: Proven ability to undertake complex assessments, reviews, support planning, and risk management interventions.
- Safeguarding Experience: Experience managing Section 42 enquiries and coordinating multi-agency safeguarding responses.
- Mental Capacity Experience: Experience undertaking Mental Capacity Assessments and Best Interest decision-making.
- Multi-Agency Working: Strong experience working collaboratively with health services, housing providers, voluntary organisations, care providers, carers, families, and partner agencies.
- Communication Skills: Excellent communication, report-writing, analytical, negotiation, and decision-making skills.
- Professional Practice: Commitment to strengths-based, person-centred practice and continuous professional development.
Why Liquid Personnel?
- Free DBS and compliance service
- Twice weekly payroll and ‘Faster Pay’ service, getting you paid more quickly
- Access to exclusive roles that aren’t available from other agencies
- Free access to Liquid’s exclusive social work training and CPD portal
- Your own dedicated consultant with extensive social work knowledge
- Access to a wide selection of social work positions across the UK
- “Refer a Friend” bonus – get £500 for each social worker you refer who we successfully place*
- “Find your own job” bonus – get £250 for bringing your own position to us *
Liquid Personnel is an equal opportunities employer. Liquid Personnel Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. * Terms and conditions apply to our bonus schemes.
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity by contacting our team. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.
We are unable to support or accept applications from candidates who are residents within the Red or Amber list of the Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England, based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) Workforce Support and Safeguard List.
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