The posting
Liquid Personnel is recruiting an experienced and highly motivated Safeguarding Practitioner to join its client's Adult Safeguarding Team.
This is an exciting opportunity for a qualified Social Worker looking to work within a specialist multi-agency safeguarding environment, supporting the delivery of a robust and effective safeguarding service for adults across the city. The successful candidate will provide expert advice, guidance, and support on complex safeguarding concerns, working closely with a wide range of statutory and non-statutory agencies including police, health professionals, care providers, acute hospitals, homelessness services, substance misuse services, the CQC, and local charities. This role requires a confident practitioner with strong safeguarding knowledge, excellent risk management skills, and the ability to work autonomously whilst managing a varied and often complex caseload.
What will your responsibilities be?
- Triaging adult safeguarding concerns, providing timely advice, decision-making, and appropriate actions in line with legal and procedural requirements.
- Managing and progressing complex safeguarding enquiries, including Section 42 enquiries, non-statutory enquiries, investigations, and Multi-Agency Risk Management processes.
- Applying safeguarding legislation, policy, and best practice, including the Care Act 2014 and the Making Safeguarding Personal framework.
- Working independently to manage a professional caseload whilst ensuring high standards of practice and compliance.
- Assessing and managing risk, ensuring vulnerable adults are protected whilst promoting their rights, wishes, and desired outcomes.
- Working collaboratively with a wide range of partner agencies to ensure coordinated and effective safeguarding interventions.
- Maintaining accurate, comprehensive, and legally compliant records, reports, and case documentation.
- Representing the Adult Safeguarding Team at internal and external meetings, forums, safeguarding reviews, and professional discussions.
- Supporting the development and delivery of safeguarding training, reflective practice sessions, and learning opportunities for professionals and students.
- Providing professional supervision, mentoring, and practice guidance to colleagues where required.
Qualifications & Experience:
To be successful in this role you must have,
- Professional Qualification: MA, BA, BSc in Social Work, Diploma in Social Work, or CQSW.
- Registration: Must be registered with Social Work England.
- Experience: Significant post-qualified experience within Adult Social Care, including safeguarding adults practice and complex case management.
- Safeguarding Knowledge: Strong understanding of the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Making Safeguarding Personal, and Adult Safeguarding procedures.
- Risk Management: Proven ability to assess, manage, and document complex risks whilst making defensible professional decisions.
- Investigation Experience: Experience undertaking safeguarding enquiries relating to allegations of abuse, neglect, exploitation, or self-neglect.
- Communication Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to produce detailed reports and engage effectively with a diverse range of professionals and service users.
- Leadership Skills: Experience supervising, mentoring, supporting, or developing colleagues is highly desirable.
- Personal Attributes: Professionally curious, emotionally resilient, organised, and able to work effectively under pressure whilst managing competing priorities.
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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