Our client based in Walsall is seeking an experienced Social Worker to join their West Locality Team. This is an excellent opportunity for a dedicated practitioner to support adults with care and support needs, along with their carers, to achieve positive outcomes, maximise independence, and improve their overall wellbeing through strengths-based and person-centred social work practice.
The successful candidate will manage a varied caseload, undertaking assessments, care planning, safeguarding enquiries, and reviews whilst working collaboratively with individuals, families, carers, and partner agencies. The role requires a proactive practitioner who can work autonomously, manage risk effectively, and deliver high-quality interventions in accordance with the Care Act 2014, Social Work England standards, and local policies and procedures.
What will your responsibilities be?
In this role, you will:
- Undertake strengths-based assessments for adults and carers in accordance with the Care Act 2014.
- Develop, implement, and review person-centred Care and Support Plans that promote independence and positive outcomes.
- Manage a varied caseload, ensuring assessments, interventions, and reviews are completed within statutory and local timescales.
- Identify, assess, and effectively manage risk to safeguard vulnerable adults.
- Lead safeguarding enquiries, safeguarding planning, and reviews to protect adults from abuse, neglect, and exploitation.
- Complete Mental Capacity Assessments and contribute to Best Interest decision-making where required.
- Advocate on behalf of adults with care and support needs, ensuring their voices are heard and access to advocacy services is provided when necessary.
- Work collaboratively with families, carers, health professionals, community organisations, and partner agencies.
- Promote strengths-based practice that empowers individuals to utilise their own skills, support networks, and community resources.
- Maintain accurate, timely, and high-quality case records, assessments, reports, and support plans.
- Participate in supervision and escalate significant concerns and risks appropriately.
- Support, mentor, and share knowledge with students, newly qualified social workers, and less experienced colleagues.
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 within Adult Social Care
- Degree level or equivalent in Social Work
- Strong knowledge of the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Adult Safeguarding legislation, and associated statutory guidance
- Experience completing strengths-based assessments, reviews, risk assessments, and care and support planning
- Experience leading safeguarding enquiries and implementing safeguarding plans
- Proven ability to work collaboratively with health professionals, carers, partner agencies, and community services
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including report writing and assessment preparation
- Commitment to person-centred, strengths-based, anti-discriminatory, and outcome-focused practice
Interested?
Apply now or get in touch with us to learn more about this opportunity.
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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