About the role
Liquid Personnel is recruiting a Social Worker to join its client’s Community West Team at Trafford Council.
Our client is seeking an experienced Social Worker to join their Integrated Community Service within the West Neighbourhood Team, based at Partington. This is a hybrid role, with the expectation that workers are office‑based when completing duty work.
The team works with adults across a wide range of needs, including long‑term conditions, adults at risk, substance misuse, hoarding, dementia, and alcohol‑related issues. This is a busy and rewarding role suited to skilled, experienced, and motivated Social Workers.
A key part of the role involves completing social work assessments and interventions using a strengths‑based and person‑centred approach, securing appropriate levels of funding where required in line with the Reshaping Trafford Policy. You will also be expected to provide an effective response to safeguarding enquiries in accordance with the Care Act and local policies and procedures.
What will your responsibilities be?
In this role, you will:
- Engage in informative and preventative conversations, completing outcomes‑focused and strengths‑based social work assessments and interventions
- Manage a caseload effectively, organising your workload to balance individual responsibilities with wider team demands
- Build effective professional relationships with partner agencies and multidisciplinary colleagues to support a coordinated response to local need
- Share responsibility for the team’s workload, supporting colleagues through collaborative working and skill‑sharing
- Participate in the team’s duty rota, responding to urgent and crisis‑led situations
- Demonstrate a strong commitment to safeguarding adults, supporting and overseeing enquiries in line with the Care Act and local safeguarding procedures
Qualifications & Experience
To be successful in this role, you must have:
- A recognised professional qualification in Social Work (MA, BA, BSc, DipSW, or CQSW)
- Registration with Social Work England
- A minimum of 2 years’ post‑qualified experience as an Adult Social Worker within a statutory setting
- Strong knowledge of relevant legislation, including the Care Act 2014 and the Mental Capacity Act 2005
- Excellent assessment, analysis, and decision‑making skills
- Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary environment
- A full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle
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 roles across the UK
- Refer a Friend bonus – get £500 for each Social Worker you successfully refer*
- Find Your Own Job bonus – get £250 for bringing your own role 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.
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. We will provide appropriate support throughout the recruitment process and into your work placement.
We are unable to support or accept applications from candidates who are residents of countries listed on 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 WHO Workforce Support and Safeguard List.
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