The posting
Liquid Personnel is recruiting Social Worker for its client's Locality East Team at Leicester.
This is an excellent opportunity for a dedicated practitioner to support adults with a range of care and support needs, working collaboratively with families, informal carers, health professionals, and partner agencies to promote independence, wellbeing, and positive outcomes.
The successful candidate will undertake strengths-based assessments, support planning, safeguarding interventions, and reviews, ensuring that individuals remain at the centre of all decision-making. You will be responsible for managing a varied caseload, responding effectively to changing levels of risk, and delivering high-quality social work interventions in accordance with the Care Act 2014 and Adult Social Care best practice.
This role requires a confident Social Worker who can work autonomously, build effective professional relationships, and deliver person-centred support that reflects the individual's needs, strengths, circumstances, and desired outcomes.
What will your responsibilities be?
- Managing a caseload of adults with a range of care and support needs within the Locality Team.
- Undertaking strengths-based Care Act 2014 assessments, reviews, reassessments, and support planning activities.
- Ensuring the views, wishes, strengths, and outcomes of people drawing on support, their families, and informal carers remain central to all assessments and interventions.
- Developing and implementing person-centred Care and Support Plans that promote independence, wellbeing, and positive life outcomes.
- Supporting adults, families, and carers through periods of change, increased need, crisis, or risk.
- Ensuring interventions are responsive to individuals' cultural, racial, religious, linguistic, and personal circumstances.
- Identifying risks and implementing proportionate plans to reduce or manage those risks effectively.
- Monitoring and reviewing support arrangements to ensure they remain appropriate, effective, and outcome-focused.
- Responding to changes in circumstances promptly and escalating concerns where risk increases.
- Undertaking Section 42 safeguarding enquiries and coordinating safeguarding responses in accordance with local procedures and statutory guidance.
- Leading and contributing to multi-agency meetings, safeguarding meetings, and case conferences, ensuring actions and outcomes are clearly identified and monitored.
- Working collaboratively with health professionals, providers, housing services, community organisations, and partner agencies to achieve coordinated support.
- Maintaining accurate, timely, and legally compliant records, assessments, reports, and case documentation.
- Producing professional, evidence-based reports that support effective decision-making and positive outcomes.
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 services.
- Legislation Knowledge: Strong understanding of the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Adult Safeguarding legislation, and associated statutory guidance.
- Assessment Skills: Proven ability to undertake strengths-based assessments, reviews, support planning, and risk management interventions.
- Safeguarding Experience: Experience leading Section 42 enquiries and managing complex safeguarding concerns.
- Multi-Agency Working: Strong experience working collaboratively with health professionals, providers, carers, families, community organisations, and partner agencies.
- Communication Skills: Excellent communication, report-writing, analytical, negotiation, and decision-making skills.
- Professional Practice: Commitment to person-centred, strengths-based practice and continuous professional development.
- Organisational Skills: Ability to manage competing priorities, work autonomously, and maintain high-quality case recording and performance standards.
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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