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Safeguarding Practitioner – Adult Safeguarding

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Your applicationOpen nowSafeguarding Practitioner – Adult SafeguardingLiquid Personnel · Portsmouth

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The posting

Our client based in Portsmouth is seeking an experienced and motivated Safeguarding Practitioner to join their Adult Safeguarding Team. This is an exciting opportunity for a qualified Social Worker to work within a specialist multi-agency safeguarding service, supporting professionals, individuals, and partner organisations in responding to complex adult safeguarding concerns.

The successful candidate will work within a fast-paced environment, providing expert safeguarding advice, guidance, and support across a wide range of statutory and non-statutory services. You will play a key role in screening safeguarding concerns, coordinating enquiries, managing risk, and ensuring that adults at risk remain at the centre of decision-making through the principles of Making Safeguarding Personal.

This role requires a confident practitioner with strong safeguarding knowledge, excellent risk assessment skills, and the ability to work autonomously whilst maintaining effective partnership working across a broad range of agencies.

What will your responsibilities be?

In this role, you will:

  • Screening and triaging adult safeguarding concerns, ensuring timely and proportionate responses in accordance with safeguarding legislation and local procedures.
  • Providing advice, guidance, and professional consultation to colleagues, partner agencies, providers, and other professionals regarding safeguarding concerns and risk management.
  • Applying safeguarding legislation, policies, and procedures in line with the Care Act 2014 and Making Safeguarding Personal principles.
  • Managing a professional caseload involving complex safeguarding concerns, safeguarding enquiries, investigations, and risk management activity.
  • Undertaking and coordinating Section 42 Safeguarding Enquiries and non-statutory safeguarding enquiries where appropriate.
  • Assessing and managing complex risks involving abuse, neglect, exploitation, self-neglect, domestic abuse, homelessness, substance misuse, and organisational concerns.
  • Leading or contributing to Multi-Agency Risk Management meetings and developing safeguarding plans to reduce risks and improve outcomes.
  • Ensuring safeguarding decisions, actions, and outcomes are clearly recorded, communicated, and shared with relevant parties.
  • Working closely with police, health services, residential and nursing homes, domiciliary care providers, housing services, acute hospitals, quality assurance teams, regulatory bodies, and voluntary organisations.
  • Promoting the rights, wishes, outcomes, and wellbeing of adults at risk through person-centred safeguarding practice.
  • Representing the Adult Safeguarding Team at internal and external meetings, safeguarding forums, case reviews, and partnership discussions.
  • Preparing high-quality safeguarding reports, assessments, risk analyses, and professional documentation.
  • Maintaining accurate, timely, and legally compliant records in accordance with professional standards and organisational requirements.
  • Contributing to service development, quality improvement, reflective practice, and continuous professional development activities.

Qualifications & Experience:

To be successful in this role you must have:

  • Professional Qualification: MA, BA, BSc in Social Work, Diploma in Social Work, CQSW, CSS, or equivalent recognised Social Work qualification.
  • Registration: Must be registered with Social Work England.
  • Experience: Significant post-qualified experience within Adult Social Care and Adult Safeguarding services.
  • Safeguarding Expertise: Experience undertaking safeguarding enquiries, managing safeguarding concerns, and investigating allegations of abuse or neglect.
  • Legislation Knowledge: Strong understanding of the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Human Rights Act, Making Safeguarding Personal, and Adult Safeguarding legislation and guidance.
  • Risk Management Skills: Proven ability to assess, analyse, and manage complex risks whilst making defensible professional decisions.
  • Assessment Skills: Strong experience undertaking safeguarding assessments, enquiries, investigations, and protection planning.
  • Multi-Agency Working: Experience working collaboratively with police, health professionals, providers, housing services, regulatory bodies, and voluntary organisations.
  • Communication Skills: Excellent communication, negotiation, report-writing, analytical, and decision-making skills, including the ability to communicate in challenging or sensitive situations.
  • Professional Curiosity: Ability to challenge appropriately, investigate concerns thoroughly, and apply creative and innovative approaches to safeguarding practice.
  • Personal Qualities: Emotionally resilient, organised, able to manage competing priorities, and committed to continuous professional development and reflective 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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