About the role
Liquid Personnel is recruiting an experienced Senior Social Worker to join our client's Adult Social Care Locality Team based in Herefordshire. This is an excellent opportunity to work with adults who have a wide range of care and support needs, including older people, young adults, individuals with physical disabilities, acquired brain injuries, learning disabilities, autism, mental health needs, and other complex circumstances.
As a Senior Social Worker, you will manage a varied and complex caseload, delivering strengths-based interventions that promote independence, wellbeing, and positive outcomes. Working within a collaborative multi-disciplinary environment, you will play a key role in undertaking assessments, safeguarding enquiries, care planning, Court of Protection work, and Community DoLS responsibilities.
What You'll Be Doing
- Managing a complex caseload of adults with diverse care and support needs.
- Completing Care Act 2014 assessments, reviews, and reassessments.
- Developing and reviewing person-centred Care and Support Plans.
- Undertaking safeguarding enquiries and risk assessments to protect vulnerable adults.
- Completing Mental Capacity Assessments and supporting Best Interest decisions.
- Carrying out Community DoLS work and contributing to Court of Protection applications.
- Managing personal budgets and ensuring effective use of resources.
- Supporting hospital discharges, community transitions, and ongoing care coordination.
- Working closely with health colleagues, families, carers, and partner agencies.
- Maintaining accurate records, reports, and case documentation.
What We're Looking For
- Social Work qualification (BA, MA, BSc, DipSW, CQSW or equivalent).
- Current registration with Social Work England.
- Significant post-qualified experience within Adult Social Care.
- Strong knowledge of the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Adult Safeguarding, Court of Protection, and Community DoLS.
- Experience working with complex adult cases across a range of service user groups.
- Excellent assessment, analytical, report-writing, and communication skills.
- Ability to work effectively within multi-disciplinary teams.
- Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle is desirable.
Why Join?
- Opportunity to work with a broad range of adult service users.
- Supportive and collaborative multi-disciplinary environment.
- Diverse and rewarding caseload with complex practice opportunities.
- Chance to make a meaningful impact on the lives of vulnerable adults within the community.
- Ongoing professional development and career-enhancing experience.
How to Apply
If you're ready to take the next step in your Adult Social Care career, we'd love to hear from you.
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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