Job Title: Adult Social Worker - Liverpool City 
Location: Liverpool City 
Pay Rate: £43.78 per hour

Liquid Personnel is seeking an experienced adult social worker to join their esteemed client. The role involves working within a community team to manage a complex and varied caseload. The social worker will receive appropriate supervision, guidance, and support to effectively handle their responsibilities.

Your responsibilities as a Social Worker:

• Complete work in a community team to hold and effectively manage a complex and varied caseload with appropriate supervision, guidance, and support.
• Ensure a strength-based conversation tailored to people’s needs underpins all conversations and assessments.
• Accountable for complex decision making and risk management in relation to caseloads, ensuring professional judgement, evidence-based tools, critical reflection, and analysis to inform this.
• Participate in a duty system.
• Ensure that reports are up to date, of high quality, and submitted according to appropriate timescales.
• Undertake mental capacity and best interests’ assessments and ensure the findings are recorded in a timely manner, in line with the Mental Capacity legislations.
• Lead safeguarding enquiries, ensuring completion within timescales and outcomes recorded and shared with relevant parties, in line with the Care Act 2014.
• Undertake direct work with people, carers, and families in line with interagency safeguarding adults.
• Communicate skillfully and confidently in complex or high-risk situations and escalate to senior management, as appropriate.
• Council policy is for all staff to work from the office three days a week.
• Car driver preferred due to the large area that the team works within.

Benefits:

• Generic Caseload
• Highest rate in England
• Hybrid Working model
  

Essential Requirements

• Qualified Social Worker, with post qualified experience
• Registered with Social Work England
• The legal right to work in the UK

Why Liquid Personnel? 

• New ‘Faster Pay’ service getting you paid more quickly
• Twice weekly payroll
• Free DBS and compliance service
• 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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Job Title: Social Worker - Duty and Assessment
Location: Liverpool
Rate: £42 /hour

We have exciting opportunities for experienced social workers to join our Duty and Assessment team at Liverpool Children’s Services. This hybrid role offers the flexibility of working both remotely and on-site as needed. You will be part of a supportive and welcoming team committed to improving outcomes for children and families in Liverpool.

What will your responsibilities be?

In this role, you will respond to referrals and undertake assessments within set timescales. You will identify needs and work with children and families to provide support and implement plans. You will handle section 47 enquiries, CIN, assessments, and planning. You will collaborate with professionals to support children and their families. You will manage cases involving children on child in need plans for short-term periods until step down or step up to ICPC, at which point cases transfer to the longer-term assessment service.

Benefits

• An initial 3-month minimum contract to create stability for children and young people.
• Up to £42 per hour (Ltd), based on experience.
• A 35-hour work week.
• Hybrid working model.
• Regular supervision and support from a stable, permanent team and manager.
• ICT kit and support provided.
• Well-connected city with easy access and commutability from nearby cities and towns.

Requirements

You need a minimum of 3 years post-qualified experience as a social worker. You must have completed ASYE. You should have experience working with children and families in a safeguarding setting. You need knowledge and skills in dealing with section 47 enquiries, CIN, assessments, and planning. Effective communication skills are essential. You must be able to work both from home and the office (3 days a week in Liverpool, full week on-site during duty week). It is essential that you are a car driver and have access to a vehicle.

How to apply?

If this is a job for you, feel free to click apply below or if you want to learn more about it, please contact 0131 392 0423.

Why Liquid Personnel?

• New ‘Faster Pay’ service getting you paid more quickly
• Twice weekly payroll
• Free DBS and compliance service
• 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 *

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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