Liquid Personnel is looking for a skilled and compassionate Senior Social Worker to join its client's Mental Health Team based in London Borough of Lewisham.
This role involves leading on complex cases, supporting individuals with enduring mental health needs, and working collaboratively with health and social care professionals to promote recovery and independence.
What will your responsibilities be?
In this role, you will,
- Ensure service users and their carers receive timely and proportionate care management assessments that identify the outcomes they wish to achieve.
- Promote service user independence and recovery by encouraging Enablement and connecting individuals to community-based services that enhance personal wellbeing.
- Collaborate within multi-agency teams to deliver seamless health and social care services.
- Partner with Support Planning Officers to involve service users and carers in individualized, creative support planning, promoting choice and control through personal budgets, with Direct Payments as the default.
- Work alongside Community Development Staff to facilitate access to community-based services.
- Adhere to risk management and adult safeguarding procedures in social work practice, and remain vigilant to potential children’s safeguarding concerns, liaising with Children’s Social Care Services as appropriate.
- Conduct assessments and service user reviews to a high standard and in a timely manner, ensuring they reflect the needs and desired outcomes of both service users and carers.
Why Join Us?
Make a Difference: Help change the lives of adults
Great Team: Work with a supportive and collaborative crew.
Qualifications & Experience:
To be successful in this role you must have,
- Social Work England registration
- Eligible to work in the UK
- Hold a full UK driving licence
- Post-qualified experience
- Degree level or equivalent in Social Work
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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